Rendezvous with Death (1980)
Sun Chung had been recognized as an expert comedy and crime thriller director, but he was to gain even greater acclaim for his soulful, powerful, intelligent, and beautifully-made martial arts epics. This stands alongside The Deadly Breaking Sword and The Kung-fu Instructor as one of his very best. It’s not so much the plot – a master swordsman protects a treasure chest on a dangerous journey – that makes this great, but what Sun does with it, inspiring the cast and crew to some of their finest work.
- Released
- 1980-10-17
- Genres
- Action
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Sun Chung
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 9 votes
Cast
- Wong Yu as Xinshuan (Miserable) / Gu Jian
- Lo Lieh as Beggar Yang Feng
- Ku Feng as Prince Yan Yikang
- Chan Shen as Chi Sifang
- Chen Kuan-tai as Golden Rod Gu Feitian
- Lam Sau-Kwan as Shui Xian Hua
- Tang Ching as Master Huo
- Chen Szu-Chia as Courtesan Sisi
- Lau Wai-Ling as 2nd Sister
- Jamie Luk Kim-ming as Black Lunatic Shen Shan
- Yuen Wah as Poison Scholar Jin Ju
- Johnny Wang Lung-Wei as Restaurant attacker with chopper