Characters & Themes
Dragon’s Claws (1979) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1979 · 92 mins · Chinese
- Directed by
- Joseph Kuo
- Starring
- Yuen Qiu, Wong Chi-Wai, Lau Ga-Yung, Hon Kwok-Choi, Chu Tit-Wo, Got Ping
A former Chinese traitor returns from Manchuria to seize the Dragon Claw Golden Tablet, a relic that forces obedience, and kills a scarred Grand‑master, sending the master’s wife and son into hiding. The widow, a Dragon Claw master, trains her son, who allies with a friend taught a strange kung fu by a reclusive medicine man, to defeat the traitor.
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