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"Taiwanese" in this context is an anachronism; Taiwan was ruled by Japan between 1895-1945, and the film is set in 1937.
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During the Sino-Japanese war, the Taiwanese navy, under-equipped and ill-prepared for an invasion, is threatened by the superior, dreaded, and powerful Japanese aircraft carrier, the ''Izumo''. Vice Admiral An of the Taiwanese navy decides to assemble a team of commandos for a daring raid to sink the ''Izumo'', managing to recruit Shanghainese resistance fighter Xiao-liu, Naval Captain Hu Ching-yuan, Sergeant Shao Kang-fa, and a rather shabby team of fighters and punks who accepted this mission for their own reasons. The only other person whom they need for the mission is Song-san, a local businessman and nightclub owner, who is friends with the Japanese and often looked down as a traitor for selling his services to the wealthy Japanese invaders.
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During the Sino-Japanese war, the Taiwanese Chinese navy, under-equipped and ill-prepared for an invasion, is threatened by the superior, dreaded, and powerful Japanese aircraft carrier, the ''Izumo''. Vice Admiral An of the Taiwanese Chinese navy decides to assemble a team of commandos for a daring raid to sink the ''Izumo'', managing to recruit Shanghainese resistance fighter Xiao-liu, Naval Captain Hu Ching-yuan, Sergeant Shao Kang-fa, and a rather shabby team of fighters and punks who accepted this mission for their own reasons. The only other person whom they need for the mission is Song-san, a local businessman and nightclub owner, who is friends with the Japanese and often looked down as a traitor for selling his services to the wealthy Japanese invaders.
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* FramingDevice: The movie opens with Vice Admiral An, now an elderly man with graying hair, relating his experiences during the naval war against the Japanese, to the new Taiwanese Admiral. Cue a WholeEpisodeFlashback depicting the entire mission.
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* FramingDevice: The movie opens with Vice Admiral An, now an elderly man with graying hair, relating his experiences during the naval war against the Japanese, to the new Taiwanese ROC/Taiwanese Admiral. Cue a WholeEpisodeFlashback depicting the entire mission.
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* CategoryTraitor: Song-san is considered to be this by most of the commandoes, due to being close friends with the Japanese.
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* CategoryTraitor: Song-san is considered to be this by most of the commandoes, commandos, due to being close friends with the Japanese.
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* ForegoneConclusion: Since the movie literally begins with the now-elderly Vice Admiral An narating the destruction of the ''Izumo'' which happened in his youth, it's quite clear that the admiral will survive the movie. [[spoiler: The titular commando team, on the other hand]]...
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* ForegoneConclusion: Since the movie literally begins with the now-elderly Vice Admiral An narating narrating the destruction of the ''Izumo'' which happened in his youth, it's quite clear that the admiral will survive the movie. [[spoiler: The titular commando team, on the other hand]]...
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* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Song-san, the wealthy local nightclub owner, doesn't care that his local club is being used by the Japanese, because he's being paid ''extravagantly'' for his services. [[spoiler: He eventually ends up supporting Vice Admiral An and the commandoes' mission, though]].
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The titular commandoes. Vice Admiral An and Captain Hu Ching-yuan are the only members which has any sort of military training, being assigned to put together a team in the last minute for a SuicideMission. Shiao Liu and Shao Kang-fa are merely hooligans, Song-san is a local businessman who has to be ''talked'' into accepting the mission due to his connections with the Japanese, while the rest of the commandoes are resistance fighters or coolies.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The titular commandoes. Vice Admiral An and Captain Hu Ching-yuan are the only members which has any sort of military training, being assigned to put together a team in the last minute for a SuicideMission. Shiao Liu and Shao Kang-fa are merely hooligans, Song-san is a local businessman who has to be ''talked'' into accepting the mission due to his connections with the Japanese, while the rest of the commandoes are resistance fighters or coolies.
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* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Song-san, the wealthy local nightclub owner, doesn't care that his local club is being used by the Japanese, because he's being paid ''extravagantly'' for his services. [[spoiler: He eventually ends up supporting Vice Admiral An and the commandoes' commandos' mission, though]].
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The titularcommandoes.commandos. Vice Admiral An and Captain Hu Ching-yuan are the only members which has any sort of military training, being assigned to put together a team in the last minute for a SuicideMission. Shiao Liu and Shao Kang-fa are merely hooligans, Song-san is a local businessman who has to be ''talked'' into accepting the mission due to his connections with the Japanese, while the rest of the commandoes commandos are resistance fighters or coolies.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The titular
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** Most of the naval commandoes have dynamites attached to their bodies, preventing the Japanese sailors on board the ''Izumo'' from shooting them while up close. Most of them blew up themselves with multiple Japanese sailors in the climax (see also one trope below).
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** Most of the naval commandoes commandos have dynamites attached to their bodies, preventing the Japanese sailors on board the ''Izumo'' from shooting them while up close. Most of them blew up themselves with multiple Japanese sailors in the climax (see also one trope below).
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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Shiao Liu, Hu Ching-yuan, Shao Kang-fa and most of the commandoes fights bare-chested in the climax.
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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Shiao Liu, Hu Ching-yuan, Shao Kang-fa and most of the commandoes commandos fights bare-chested in the climax.
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''The Naval Commandoes'' is a military/war film directed by Chang Cheh, produced by Creator/ShawBrothers, starring Creator/AlexanderFuSheng, Creator/AnthonyLauWing, Creator/DavidChiang, and Creator/TiLung in a really, really minimal role. It is notably one of Chang Cheh's last war movies he made as a co-production with Taiwan’s Central Film Company.
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''The Naval Commandoes'' is a military/war film directed by Chang Cheh, produced by Creator/ShawBrothers, starring Creator/AlexanderFuSheng, Creator/AnthonyLauWing, Creator/DavidChiang, Creator/ShihSzu and Creator/TiLung in a really, really minimal role. It is notably one of Chang Cheh's last war movies he made as a co-production with Taiwan’s Central Film Company.
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* CharactersDroppingLikeFlies: As the climatic raid on the ''Izumo'' continues, we have one named character dying every 5 minutes until [[spoiler: Vice Admiral An remains as the SoleSurvivor of the mission]].
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* MutualKill: [[spoiler: The fight between Song-san and Captain Hiroda in the office of the ''Izumo'' ends with Hiroda managing to grab a concealed pistol and shooting Song-san, but Song-san managed to stab Hiroda dead before he succumbs]].
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* MutualKill: [[spoiler: The fight between Song-san and Captain Hiroda in the office of the ''Izumo'' ends with Hiroda managing to grab grabbing a concealed pistol and shooting Song-san, but Song-san managed to stab Hiroda dead before he succumbs]].
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The titular commandoes. Vice Admiral An and Captain Hu Ching-yuan are the only members which has any sort of military training, being assigned to put together a team in the last minute for a SuicideMission. Shiao Liu and Shao Kang-fa are merely hooligans, Song-san is a local businessman who has to be ''talked'' into accepting the mission due to his connections with the Japanese, while the rest of the commandoes are resistance fighters or coolies.
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The titular commandoes. Vice Admiral An and Captain Hu Ching-yuan are the only members which has any sort of military training, being assigned to put together a team in the last minute for a SuicideMission. Shiao Liu and Shao Kang-fa are merely hooligans, Song-san is a local businessman who has to be ''talked'' into accepting the mission due to his connections with the Japanese, while the rest of the commandoes are resistance fighters or coolies.coolies.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Song-san]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Song-san]].
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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Shiao Liu, Hu Ching-yuan, Shao Kang-fa and most of the commandoes fights bare-chested in the climax.
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* WalkingShirtlessScene: WalkingShirtlessScene: Shiao Liu, Hu Ching-yuan, Shao Kang-fa and most of the commandoes fights bare-chested in the climax.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Aye aye, Captain!]]
''The Naval Commandoes'' is a military/war film directed by Chang Cheh, produced by Creator/ShawBrothers, starring Creator/AlexanderFuSheng, Creator/AnthonyLauWing, Creator/DavidChiang, and Creator/TiLung in a really, really minimal role. It is notably one of Chang Cheh's last war movies he made as a co-production with Taiwan’s Central Film Company.
During the Sino-Japanese war, the Taiwanese navy, under-equipped and ill-prepared for an invasion, is threatened by the superior, dreaded, and powerful Japanese aircraft carrier, the ''Izumo''. Vice Admiral An of the Taiwanese navy decides to assemble a team of commandos for a daring raid to sink the ''Izumo'', managing to recruit Shanghainese resistance fighter Xiao-liu, Naval Captain Hu Ching-yuan, Sergeant Shao Kang-fa, and a rather shabby team of fighters and punks who accepted this mission for their own reasons. The only other person whom they need for the mission is Song-san, a local businessman and nightclub owner, who is friends with the Japanese and often looked down as a traitor for selling his services to the wealthy Japanese invaders.
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!! Naval Commandos contains examples of:
* AbandonShip: The crew of the ''Ning-hai'', after being completely obliterated by aircraft launched by the ''Izumo''.
* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: The bedroom talk between Xiao-liu and Cui Hsia, his potential LoveInterest, the night before he sets off for the mission to take down the ''Izumo''.
* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler: Vice Admiral An is the SoleSurvivor of the final raid on the Japanese aircraft carrier, having witnessed every single one of his comrades' deaths and providing a firsthand account of the entire mission]].
* BadGuyBar: Subverted with Song-san's club; Song-san is a wealthy nightclub owner whose club is frequented by the Japanese, including Captain Hiroda and most of the higher-ups of the Japanese Navy, but by the end of the day Song-san is merely a businessman who's interested in making money, and is by no means a villain.
* CategoryTraitor: Song-san is considered to be this by most of the commandoes, due to being close friends with the Japanese.
* CurbStompBattle: The battle between the aircraft carrier ''Izumo'' and ''Ning-hai''. Due to the latter being severely under-equipped and poorly maintained, and facing the superior firepower of the ''Izumo'', it's crew ends up getting massacred when it gets sunk. But still...
* CurbStompCushion: The crew of the ''Ning-hai'' '''did''' manage to shoot down at least a handful of planes launched from the ''Izumo'' before being sunk.
* DeathByCameo: Creator/TiLung as the ''Ning-hai'' captain. While his sailors managed to bail, being the captain, it's his duty to stay with the ship even as it's being blown up to pieces. And so he did.
* DyingSmirk: [[spoiler: On Song-san, moments before his death]].
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Song-san, upon realizing he's been mortally wounded, tells Vice Admiral An and the commandoes to proceed with their mission, before sitting down and allowing himself to bleed out]]. [[DyingAlone All by himself]].
* FakeDefector: "Defector" may be too strong a word for Song-san the nightclub owner, who's providing services to the Japanese because [[OnlyInItForTheMoney he's being paid handsomely]], but he ultimately supports the mission from Vice Admiral An and the commandoes.
* ForegoneConclusion: Since the movie literally begins with the now-elderly Vice Admiral An narating the destruction of the ''Izumo'' which happened in his youth, it's quite clear that the admiral will survive the movie. [[spoiler: The titular commando team, on the other hand]]...
* FramingDevice: The movie opens with Vice Admiral An, now an elderly man with graying hair, relating his experiences during the naval war against the Japanese, to the new Taiwanese Admiral. Cue a WholeEpisodeFlashback depicting the entire mission.
* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: This is the method used by the titular commando team to infiltrate the ''Izumo'' in the climax, pretending to be deckhands and cleaners, while hiding explosives in their cleaning buckets.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler: The fight between Song-san and Captain Hiroda in the office of the ''Izumo'' ends with Hiroda managing to grab a concealed pistol and shooting Song-san, but Song-san managed to stab Hiroda dead before he succumbs]].
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Song-san, the wealthy local nightclub owner, doesn't care that his local club is being used by the Japanese, because he's being paid ''extravagantly'' for his services. [[spoiler: He eventually ends up supporting Vice Admiral An and the commandoes' mission, though]].
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The titular commandoes. Vice Admiral An and Captain Hu Ching-yuan are the only members which has any sort of military training, being assigned to put together a team in the last minute for a SuicideMission. Shiao Liu and Shao Kang-fa are merely hooligans, Song-san is a local businessman who has to be ''talked'' into accepting the mission due to his connections with the Japanese, while the rest of the commandoes are resistance fighters or coolies.
* TakingYouWithMe:
** See MutualKill for how the fight between [[spoiler: Song-san and Captain Hiroda turns out]].
** Most of the naval commandoes have dynamites attached to their bodies, preventing the Japanese sailors on board the ''Izumo'' from shooting them while up close. Most of them blew up themselves with multiple Japanese sailors in the climax (see also one trope below).
* TogetherInDeath: A TrueCompanions example with [[spoiler: Shiao Liu and Hu Ching-yuan]]. Having installed explosives all over the boiler room and lower decks of the ''Izumo'', and finding themselves locked in the hull with Japanese sailors surrounding them, [[spoiler: they then trigger the dynamites they've strapped to themselves]].
* OutrunTheFireball: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler: Vice Admiral An jumping off the deck of the ''Izumo'' as the entire ship blows up behind him]].
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Shiao Liu, Hu Ching-yuan, Shao Kang-fa and most of the commandoes fights bare-chested in the climax.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Aye aye, Captain!]]
''The Naval Commandoes'' is a military/war film directed by Chang Cheh, produced by Creator/ShawBrothers, starring Creator/AlexanderFuSheng, Creator/AnthonyLauWing, Creator/DavidChiang, and Creator/TiLung in a really, really minimal role. It is notably one of Chang Cheh's last war movies he made as a co-production with Taiwan’s Central Film Company.
During the Sino-Japanese war, the Taiwanese navy, under-equipped and ill-prepared for an invasion, is threatened by the superior, dreaded, and powerful Japanese aircraft carrier, the ''Izumo''. Vice Admiral An of the Taiwanese navy decides to assemble a team of commandos for a daring raid to sink the ''Izumo'', managing to recruit Shanghainese resistance fighter Xiao-liu, Naval Captain Hu Ching-yuan, Sergeant Shao Kang-fa, and a rather shabby team of fighters and punks who accepted this mission for their own reasons. The only other person whom they need for the mission is Song-san, a local businessman and nightclub owner, who is friends with the Japanese and often looked down as a traitor for selling his services to the wealthy Japanese invaders.
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!! Naval Commandos contains examples of:
* AbandonShip: The crew of the ''Ning-hai'', after being completely obliterated by aircraft launched by the ''Izumo''.
* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: The bedroom talk between Xiao-liu and Cui Hsia, his potential LoveInterest, the night before he sets off for the mission to take down the ''Izumo''.
* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler: Vice Admiral An is the SoleSurvivor of the final raid on the Japanese aircraft carrier, having witnessed every single one of his comrades' deaths and providing a firsthand account of the entire mission]].
* BadGuyBar: Subverted with Song-san's club; Song-san is a wealthy nightclub owner whose club is frequented by the Japanese, including Captain Hiroda and most of the higher-ups of the Japanese Navy, but by the end of the day Song-san is merely a businessman who's interested in making money, and is by no means a villain.
* CategoryTraitor: Song-san is considered to be this by most of the commandoes, due to being close friends with the Japanese.
* CurbStompBattle: The battle between the aircraft carrier ''Izumo'' and ''Ning-hai''. Due to the latter being severely under-equipped and poorly maintained, and facing the superior firepower of the ''Izumo'', it's crew ends up getting massacred when it gets sunk. But still...
* CurbStompCushion: The crew of the ''Ning-hai'' '''did''' manage to shoot down at least a handful of planes launched from the ''Izumo'' before being sunk.
* DeathByCameo: Creator/TiLung as the ''Ning-hai'' captain. While his sailors managed to bail, being the captain, it's his duty to stay with the ship even as it's being blown up to pieces. And so he did.
* DyingSmirk: [[spoiler: On Song-san, moments before his death]].
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Song-san, upon realizing he's been mortally wounded, tells Vice Admiral An and the commandoes to proceed with their mission, before sitting down and allowing himself to bleed out]]. [[DyingAlone All by himself]].
* FakeDefector: "Defector" may be too strong a word for Song-san the nightclub owner, who's providing services to the Japanese because [[OnlyInItForTheMoney he's being paid handsomely]], but he ultimately supports the mission from Vice Admiral An and the commandoes.
* ForegoneConclusion: Since the movie literally begins with the now-elderly Vice Admiral An narating the destruction of the ''Izumo'' which happened in his youth, it's quite clear that the admiral will survive the movie. [[spoiler: The titular commando team, on the other hand]]...
* FramingDevice: The movie opens with Vice Admiral An, now an elderly man with graying hair, relating his experiences during the naval war against the Japanese, to the new Taiwanese Admiral. Cue a WholeEpisodeFlashback depicting the entire mission.
* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: This is the method used by the titular commando team to infiltrate the ''Izumo'' in the climax, pretending to be deckhands and cleaners, while hiding explosives in their cleaning buckets.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler: The fight between Song-san and Captain Hiroda in the office of the ''Izumo'' ends with Hiroda managing to grab a concealed pistol and shooting Song-san, but Song-san managed to stab Hiroda dead before he succumbs]].
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Song-san, the wealthy local nightclub owner, doesn't care that his local club is being used by the Japanese, because he's being paid ''extravagantly'' for his services. [[spoiler: He eventually ends up supporting Vice Admiral An and the commandoes' mission, though]].
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The titular commandoes. Vice Admiral An and Captain Hu Ching-yuan are the only members which has any sort of military training, being assigned to put together a team in the last minute for a SuicideMission. Shiao Liu and Shao Kang-fa are merely hooligans, Song-san is a local businessman who has to be ''talked'' into accepting the mission due to his connections with the Japanese, while the rest of the commandoes are resistance fighters or coolies.
* TakingYouWithMe:
** See MutualKill for how the fight between [[spoiler: Song-san and Captain Hiroda turns out]].
** Most of the naval commandoes have dynamites attached to their bodies, preventing the Japanese sailors on board the ''Izumo'' from shooting them while up close. Most of them blew up themselves with multiple Japanese sailors in the climax (see also one trope below).
* TogetherInDeath: A TrueCompanions example with [[spoiler: Shiao Liu and Hu Ching-yuan]]. Having installed explosives all over the boiler room and lower decks of the ''Izumo'', and finding themselves locked in the hull with Japanese sailors surrounding them, [[spoiler: they then trigger the dynamites they've strapped to themselves]].
* OutrunTheFireball: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler: Vice Admiral An jumping off the deck of the ''Izumo'' as the entire ship blows up behind him]].
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Shiao Liu, Hu Ching-yuan, Shao Kang-fa and most of the commandoes fights bare-chested in the climax.
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