Home Guard: The villagers defending the coastal town from Japanese buccaneers ultimately becomes this, once Hsia-feng and his crew teaches the villagers to fight.Plenty of redshirts have felled to his sword, including Leng-Ping The Lancer. Hero Killer: Hashimoto, who claims the highest body-count amongst the Japanese bucaneers.The Hero Dies: Hsia-feng and his lancer, Leng-Ping, both fails to outlive the credits.Cue Hsia-feng entering a tavern occupied by Japanese pirates, and when the leader orders his men to kill Hsia for barging in, Hsia kills them all soundlessly establishing himself as a threat to the invaders. Establishing Character Moment: When Hsia-feng, a stranger complete with mysterious Eye-Obscuring Hat and all, first enters the village, it was in the aftermath of a buccaneer raid, where everyone is wary of strangers and afraid to even leave their houses.They also give Hsia-feng and his crew a much tougher fight during the battle scenes. Elite Mook: The samurai leaders whom are clad in red (instead of navy blue), uses special weapons like the flail, tetsubo or nagayari, and puts up a much, much better fight than the samurai mooks.Dual Wielding: Hsia-feng uses twin swords when it comes to taking names.He's offered a chance to have an extended stay in the village in exchange for protecting the village. The Drifter: Hsia-feng spends his days Walking the Earth, and by chance stumbles across the village being threatened by Japanese pirates. It's mostly the blood of enemy pirates, but at the end of his battle against Hashimoto. Especially given how he wears completely white. Blood-Splattered Warrior: Hsia-feng, during big battle scenes.Of course Hsia-feng and Hashimoto leads in terms of bodycount, killing plenty of mooks and redshirts, respectively. The entire battle lasts for at least ten minutes onscreen, with plenty of deaths on each side. Big Badass Battle Sequence: One that occurs halfway through the movie, where the village men trained into becoming warriors, led by Hsia-feng and Leng Ping, takes on the Japanese buccaneers led by Hashimoto.Big Bad: Shinobu Hashimoto leads the Japanese pirates to regularly commit Rape, Pillage, and Burn on the villages. After all, Jimmy gets to do what he does best. So expect the action, gore, and onscreen bodycount to skyrocket. Yes, this is Seven Samurai all over again, but with Wang-yu. Hsia agrees, and later he is joined by a few more warriors, including "Killer" Leng-ping and Iron Bull, who then decides to train the villagers into battle against the buccaneers. But when a drifter and wandering warrior, Hsia-feng (Jimmy) single-handedly kills a small band of buccaneers while in the village, the villagers are quick to offer Hsia-feng an extended stay, in exchange for protection against the invaders. Towards the end of the Ming dynasty, a cluster of coastal Chinese villages are at the mercy of Japanese buccaneers, who regularly launch raids and attacks on the village, plundering the locals of their wealth and food. Beach of the War Gods is a 1973 martial arts film starring Jimmy Wang Yu, Lung Fei, Tieh Yeh and Hsueh Han.
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