
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman(1969)
Eight demon swordsmen and their gang have spread menace across many sword teaching schools. The students seek the help of Fang who alone can combat them. Will Fang take up the challenge.

“After getting into a brawl in a Discotech in Dominica, three strangers find themselves thrown in jail together and left to rot there.”
After getting into a brawl in a Discotech in Dominica, three strangers; a Japanese tourist (Yasuaki Kurata), a Chinese restaurant worker (Tony Poon) and an American (!) painter (Tadashi Yamashita) find themselves thrown in jail together and left to rot there. Just when things seem their grimmest, the three are released, their bonds posted by an ex Army General. His intention is to put their supreme fighting skills to use against his family's black sheep, a powerful mafioso who employs top fighters from all over the world as protection.

Yasuaki Kurata
Japanese tourist

Tadashi Yamashita
American painter
Poon Kin-Kwan
Chinese resteraunt worker
The Magnificent 3 is a adventure, action film released in 1980. Directed by Yueh-Ting Men, it stars Yasuaki Kurata, Tadashi Yamashita, Poon Kin-Kwan. After getting into a brawl in a Discotech in Dominica, three strangers; a Japanese tourist (Yasuaki Kurata), a Chinese restaurant worker (Tony Poon) and an American (!) painter (Tadashi Yamashita) find themselves thrown in jail together and left to rot there. Just when things seem their grimmest, the three are released, their bonds posted by an ex Army General. His intention is to put their supreme fighting skills to use against his family's black sheep, a powerful mafioso who employs top fighters from all over the world as protection.
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