History Film / TheMightyPekingMan

* KillerGorilla: A variation; Utam is a {{kaiju}}-sized killer orangutan.

* SuckOutThePoison: Johnny have to do this to Samantha when she gets bitten by a venomous snake. She ends up drifting into unconsciousness, allowing Johnny's gang to attack and capture Utam without her interference.
* VineSwing: How Samantha travels around in the jungles.

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Upon arriving in Hong Kong from the wilderness, Samantha gets a change of clothing, which consists of leather PVC hot-pants. Clearly she's still not adapt to wearing clothes... nah, [[{{Fanservice}} who are we kidding]]?

When giant footsteps belonging to what is supposedly a giant, ape-like cryptid named the "Mighty Peking Man" is spotted in the snowy mountains of the Himalayas, intending to have the cryptid captured for his own reasons, the Hong Kong tycoon Lu Tien, immediately organizes an expedition to locate the monster, one led by expert hunter Johnny (Danny Lee). But upon finding the beast, it turns out the monster, named "Utam" due to being a giant orangutan, has it's own human companion, a Caucasian woman named Samantha, who lose her parents as an infant and was subsequently adopted by Utam and the Himalayan animals. But there's an expedition to complete, and Lu Tien is adamant to have Utam captured alive at all costs.

* BerserkButton: Unlike it's inspiration, in this knockoff Utam finally lose it when [[spoiler: a stray bullet from one of the helicopters hits Samantha in her shoulder]], resulting in his final rampage.

* DeathByAdaptation: If this counts as an adaptation of ''King Kong''; then [[spoiler: Lu Tien and Samnantha]], the counterparts of Carl Denham and Ann Darrow, both dies at the end of Utam's rampage.
* DownerEnding: The film's ending is much, much bleaker than either adaptations of King Kong, where [[spoiler: Samantha is implied to have died together with Utam at the film's conclusion]].
* EgomaniacHunter: Johnny is hired to lead the expedition to capture Utam from the Himalayas to Hong Kong. Subverted that he ends up being nicer than other examples of this trope: he actually hesitates to partake in capturing Utam when Jenny pleads him not to.

* GiantFootprintReveal: The discovery of Utam's footprint in the hills of Himalayas is what kicked off the expedition for the giant orangutan, and subsequently the entire plot of the film.
* InterspeciesAdoption: Utam, a giant orangutan raises Samantha, a human.
* JunglePrincess: Samantha lives in the wild, [[FriendToAllLivingThings is friend with all animals]], and wears nothing but a FurBikini.
* {{Kaiju}}: Not as large as it's inspiration, but still fits the bill.
* KillerGorilla: A variation, Utam is a {{kaiju}}-sized killer orangutan.

* StuffBlowingUp: After Utam swats a helicopter out of the air, the helicopter then crashes... into an oil tanker in the middle of the streets. The results are as explosive as it sounds.

* FurBikini: Samantha's standard outfit, befitting her nature of being raised in an uninhabited island.

* JunglePrincess: Samantha.

* InterspeciesRomance: Between Samantha, a human, and Utam, a giant orangutan.

* KillerGorilla: A variation, Utam is a killer orangutan.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Samantha, due to growing up in the wild, and having learnt to communication with the wildlife.

''The Mighty Peking Man'', also known as ''Goliathon'', is a 1977 Creator/ShawBrothers monster movie directed by Ho Meng-hua (featuring special effects by Sadamasa Arikawa), starring Creator/DannyLee (''Film/TheSuperInframan'') and Evelyn Kraft.

Released to capitalize on the craze of ''Film/KingKong1976'' the previous year, the entire film is wedged somewhere between a CaptainErsatz and a complete knockoff of King Kong, [[RecycledInSpace Recycled in Hong Kong]]. The parallels are painfully obvious, with some changes in setting (from an uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas, and from New York to Hong Kong), but is an otherwise rather transparent knockoff with some additional plot elements lifted from ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}''. It is, however, notable for being Creator/RogerEbert's favorite [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mighty-peking-man-1999 Hong Kong monster film]] - which, let's be honest here, [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative isn't really saying much]].

When giant footsteps belonging to what is supposedly a giant, ape-like cryptid named the "Mighty Peking Man" is spotted in the snowy mountains of the Himalayas, the Hong Kong tycoon, Lu Tien, immediately organized an expedition to locate the monster, one led by expert hunter Johnny (Danny Lee). But upon finding the beast, it turns out the monster, named "Utam" due to being a giant orangutan, has it's own human companion, a Caucasian woman named Samantha, who lose her parents as an infant and was subsequently adopted by Utam and the Himalayan animals. But there's an expedition to complete, and Lu Tien is adamant to have Utam captured alive at all costs.