It begins rather mundanely, but about 20 minutes into it Sonny Chiba has a nicely staged fight on a bridge so I continued watching. Then arrived the scene that caused me to stop plucking on the guitar and give the film my full attention.

One moment Sonny Chiba is chewing the fat with Bronson Lee (so named due to his supposed resemblance to Charles Bronson!), and the next second he’s casually strolling thru the jungle. Okay fair enough, Sonny got bored with the conversation and went for a walk, either that or the film’s editor dozed off. But then 4 men appear before him and start acting strangely to say the least. Even Streetfighter Chiba gets a startled look on his face as the men fall down on all fours and start chanting a tune straight out of The Omen. Suddenly they charge the Chiba like a mob of frothing mad monkeys, I mean literally, the four men are possessed by Chinese monkey spirits and start clawing and biting poor Sonny, who has about as much as he’s going to take from the primate possessed pack. Out comes the karate arsenal as Sonny engages in the best man vs multiple monkeys fight ever committed to celluloid. Cancel the call to the exorcist as Sonny knocks the 4 men out of the spirit world and back into reality with his martial arts expertise and a few Hail Marys.

There’s more weirdness in this film, like Chiba training with electrodes attached to his body (even his posterior!) via a strange garment that looks like womens underwear. Don’t want to accuse the filmmakers of firing up one two many opium pipes but no clear headed person could have come up with this madness!