Shaolin Handlock

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Shaolin Handlock is a Shaw Brothers film directed by Chu Yuan, starring Lo Lieh and David Chiang.

[edit] Plot

Li Bai (Dick Wei) is the creator and master of the 'Shi Zi So Hou Shou' (which basically is a ' Throat Locking Hand', otherwise known as 'Shaolin Hand Lock') who passes down the skill to his children 'Ching Yang' (David Chiang) and Meng Ping (Chan Ping ). However, an old friend 'Fang Yun Biao' visits Li Bai and manages to kill him by attacking the skills only weakness and unknowingly, also kills his two other students to whom he believed were Li Bai's children. After his children find out of the murder, Ching Yang sets out to avenge his father. Travelling to Thailand to kill Fang and before that, gives him information of who hired him - the rich benevolent 'Lin Hao' (Lo Lieh). In the process, he attracts Lin Hao into accepting him as a bodyguard by stealing and retaining in custody gold that belonged to Lin Hao. While suspected by other guards, Lin Hao remains in a difficult situation to find out if Li Bai's siblings are still alive and what Ching Yang is really there for...