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* FiveManBand: Appropriately enough, there are five main characters in the courier team, and they all fit the bill of the band:
** TheHero: Ma the courier, who leads the team.
** TheLancer: Fu Jun, the weapons expert and second-best fighter.
** TheBigGuy: Bu, a former coal miner, largest and strongest in the courier team.
** TheHeart: Yao-jie, Ma’s closest friend and the most naïve of the team.
** TheChick: Gui-hua, the sole female of the team.
** SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler: Hsu]].
** TheHero: Ma the courier, who leads the team.
** TheLancer: Fu Jun, the weapons expert and second-best fighter.
** TheBigGuy: Bu, a former coal miner, largest and strongest in the courier team.
** TheHeart: Yao-jie, Ma’s closest friend and the most naïve of the team.
** TheChick: Gui-hua, the sole female of the team.
** SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler: Hsu]].
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* NothingUpMySleeve: Fu Jun’s long LoadedSleeves conceal a hidden dart launcher, which he can use for sneak attacks, effective in taking down a fleeing bandit and later getting him out of a fix in the DualBoss battle. [[spoiler: But against Hsu, unfortunately Hsu’s wrist magnet completely NoSell Fu Jun’s darts]].
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* NothingUpMySleeve: Fu Jun’s long LoadedSleeves sleeves conceal a hidden dart launcher, which he can use for sneak attacks, effective in taking down a fleeing bandit and later getting him out of a fix in the DualBoss battle. [[spoiler: But against Hsu, unfortunately Hsu’s wrist magnet completely NoSell Fu Jun’s darts]].
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* NothingUpMySleeve: Fu Jun’s long HandHidingSleeves conceals a hidden dart launcher, which he can use for sneak attacks, effective in taking down a fleeing bandit and later getting him out of a fix in the DualBoss battle. [[spoiler: But against Hsu, unfortunately Hsu’s wrist magnet completely NoSell Fu Jun’s darts]].
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* NothingUpMySleeve: Fu Jun’s long HandHidingSleeves conceals LoadedSleeves conceal a hidden dart launcher, which he can use for sneak attacks, effective in taking down a fleeing bandit and later getting him out of a fix in the DualBoss battle. [[spoiler: But against Hsu, unfortunately Hsu’s wrist magnet completely NoSell Fu Jun’s darts]].
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* DeathOfAChild: Two in a row. [[spoiler: Yao-jie’s two kid sisters, both whom are barely 7 years of age. Hsu simply offs them together with Yao-jie using the machine-gun without batting an eye]].
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* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Averted for Yao-jie’s two kid sisters, both whom are barely 7 years of age. Hsu simply offs them together with Yao-jie using the machine-gun without batting an eye]].
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* AdvertisedExtra: [[https://www.fareastfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-Postman-Fights-Back.jpg The re-issued DVD covers]] of this movie would tend to hype Chow Yun-fat’s presence in this film, even though he plays second fiddle to Bryan Leung’s character Ma. Understandable, since this movie came out before ''Film/ABetterTomorrow'' made Chow a megastar and cinematic icon.
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* AdvertisedExtra: [[https://www.fareastfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-Postman-Fights-Back.jpg amazon.com/Postman-Fights-Back-20th-Century/dp/B00UGQDBEA The re-issued DVD covers]] of this movie would tend to hype Chow Yun-fat’s presence in this film, even though he plays second fiddle to Bryan Leung’s character Ma. Understandable, since this movie came out before ''Film/ABetterTomorrow'' made Chow a megastar and cinematic icon.
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Living in the cold wastelands of Northern China during the 1930s revolution era can be rough, especially for Ma, a former martial artist-turned-courier specializing in transporting and smuggling services. So when Ma and his friends are hired by the mysterious Hsu, who claims to be working for a wealthy, powerful warlord and wishes to enlist Ma's assistance to deliver for him a cargo of four mysterious cases, where they will be paid handsomely for their services on the condition that they will '''NOT''' in any way attempt to find out what they're transporting, they immediately agrees to the assignment. Eager for the money, Ma and his team, including Ma's best friend Yao-jie (Yuen Yat-cho), fellow courier also hired for the job Fu Jun (Chow Yun-fat), and friendly local coal miner Bu (Fan Mei-sheng), sets off on a long trip across the cold winter wastelands of Northern China. But their mission is compromised, and Hsu is not who he seems.
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Living in the cold wastelands of Northern China during the 1930s revolution era can be rough, especially for Ma, a former martial artist-turned-courier specializing in transporting and smuggling services. So when Ma and his friends are hired by the mysterious Hsu, who claims to be working for a wealthy, powerful warlord baron and wishes to enlist Ma's assistance to deliver for him a cargo of four mysterious cases, where they will be paid handsomely for their services on the condition that they will '''NOT''' in any way attempt to find out what they're transporting, they immediately agrees to the assignment. Eager for the money, Ma and his team, including Ma's best friend Yao-jie (Yuen Yat-cho), fellow courier also hired for the job Fu Jun (Chow Yun-fat), and friendly local coal miner Bu (Fan Mei-sheng), sets off on a long trip across the cold winter wastelands of Northern China.China with their cargo. But their mission is compromised, and Hsu is not who he seems.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Bu, in his final moments realizing he's wounded too badly to survive the night, decide to blow up himself, the machine-gun, and the rest of the warlord's camp to prevent the machine-gun from falling to the wrong hands]].
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Living in the cold wastelands of Northern China can be rough, especially for Ma, a former martial artist-turned-courier specializing in transporting and smuggling services. So when Ma and his friends are hired by the mysterious Hsu, who claims to be working for a wealthy, powerful warlord and wishes to enlist Ma's assistance to deliver for him a cargo of four mysterious cases, where they will be paid handsomely for their services on the condition that they will '''NOT''' in any way attempt to find out what they're transporting, they immediately agrees to the assignment. Eager for the money, Ma and his team, including Ma's best friend Yao-jie (Yuen Yat-cho), fellow courier also hired for the job Fu Jun (Chow Yun-fat), and friendly local coal miner Bu (Fan Mei-sheng), sets off on a long trip across the cold winter wastelands of Northern China. But their mission is compromised, and Hsu is not who he seems.
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Living in the cold wastelands of Northern China during the 1930s revolution era can be rough, especially for Ma, a former martial artist-turned-courier specializing in transporting and smuggling services. So when Ma and his friends are hired by the mysterious Hsu, who claims to be working for a wealthy, powerful warlord and wishes to enlist Ma's assistance to deliver for him a cargo of four mysterious cases, where they will be paid handsomely for their services on the condition that they will '''NOT''' in any way attempt to find out what they're transporting, they immediately agrees to the assignment. Eager for the money, Ma and his team, including Ma's best friend Yao-jie (Yuen Yat-cho), fellow courier also hired for the job Fu Jun (Chow Yun-fat), and friendly local coal miner Bu (Fan Mei-sheng), sets off on a long trip across the cold winter wastelands of Northern China. But their mission is compromised, and Hsu is not who he seems.
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''The Postman Fights Back'' is a 1982 Hong Kong MartialArtsMovie directed by Ronny Yu in his directorial debut, starring Bryan Leung, Creator/ChowYunFat (a few years before ''Film/ABetterTomorrow'' made him famous), Eddy Ko (from ''Film/HeroesShedNoTears'') and Shaw Brothers action veteran Fan Mei-sheng, who would later co-star with Chow in ''Rich And Famous''.
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''The Postman Fights Back'' is a 1982 Hong Kong MartialArtsMovie directed by Ronny Yu in his directorial debut, starring Bryan Leung, Creator/ChowYunFat (a few years before ''Film/ABetterTomorrow'' made him famous), Eddy Ko (from ''Film/HeroesShedNoTears'') and Shaw Brothers action veteran Fan Mei-sheng, who would later co-star with Chow in ''Rich And Famous''.
''Film/RichAndFamous''.
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Living in the cold wastelands of Northern China can be rough, especially for Ma, a former martial artist-turned-courier specializing in transporting and smuggling services. So when Ma and his friends are hired by the mysterious Hsu, who claims to be working for a wealthy, powerful warlord and wishes to enlist Ma's assistance to deliver for him a cargo of four mysterious cases, where they will be paid handsomely for their services on the condition that they will '''NOT''' in any way, attempt to find out what they're transporting, they immediately agrees to the assignment. Eager for the money, Ma and his team, including Ma's best friend Yao-jie (Yuen Yat-cho), fellow courier also hired for the job Fu Jun (Chow Yun-fat), and friendly local coal miner Bu (Fan Mei-sheng), sets off on a long trip across the cold winter wastelands of Northern China. But their mission is compromised, and Hsu is not who he seems.
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Living in the cold wastelands of Northern China can be rough, especially for Ma, a former martial artist-turned-courier specializing in transporting and smuggling services. So when Ma and his friends are hired by the mysterious Hsu, who claims to be working for a wealthy, powerful warlord and wishes to enlist Ma's assistance to deliver for him a cargo of four mysterious cases, where they will be paid handsomely for their services on the condition that they will '''NOT''' in any way, way attempt to find out what they're transporting, they immediately agrees to the assignment. Eager for the money, Ma and his team, including Ma's best friend Yao-jie (Yuen Yat-cho), fellow courier also hired for the job Fu Jun (Chow Yun-fat), and friendly local coal miner Bu (Fan Mei-sheng), sets off on a long trip across the cold winter wastelands of Northern China. But their mission is compromised, and Hsu is not who he seems.
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** During Fu Jun’s battle with Hsu, Fu Jun tries using his scarf as a makeshift weapon (it worked before in the twins fight) to ensnare Hsu, [[spoiler: only for Hsu to use it to bind Fu Jun’s hands behind him, allowing Hsu to stab the now-defenceless Fu Jun InTheBack]].
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** During Fu Jun’s battle with Hsu, Fu Jun tries using his scarf as a makeshift weapon (it worked before in the twins fight) to ensnare Hsu, [[spoiler: only for Hsu to use it to bind Fu Jun’s hands behind him, allowing Hsu to stab execute the now-defenceless Fu Jun InTheBack]].Jun]].
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* HumanLadder: The DualBoss twin midgets who fights Fu Jun simultaneously can [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UTc86SuUHA fight while having one carry the other atop his shoulders]], making them appear to tower over Fu Jun. spoiler: Until Fu manage to gain the upper hand by using his concealed wrist dart to take down one of the twins, whereupon the other instantly becomes easy pickings.
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* HumanLadder: The DualBoss twin midgets who fights Fu Jun simultaneously can [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UTc86SuUHA fight while having one carry the other atop his shoulders]], making them appear to tower over Fu Jun. spoiler: Until Fu manage to gain the upper hand by using his concealed wrist dart to take down one of the twins, whereupon the other instantly becomes easy pickings.
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Living in the cold wastelands of Northern China can be rough, especially for Ma, a former martial artist-turned-courier and postman specializing in transporting and smuggling services. So when Ma and his friends are hired by the mysterious Hsu, who claims to be working for a wealthy, powerful warlord and wishes to enlist Ma's assistance to deliver a cargo of four mysterious cases to the warlord, where they will be paid handsomely for their services on the condition that they will '''NOT''' in any way, attempt to find out what they're transporting. Eager for the money, Ma and his team, including Yao Jie, which is Ma's best friend (Yuen Yat-cho), Fu Jun, a fellow courier also hired for the job which Ma is forced to work with (Fu Jun), and Bu, a muscular coal miner and brute which Ma is friendly with (Fan Mei-sheng). But their mission is compromised, and Hsu is not who he seems.
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Living in the cold wastelands of Northern China can be rough, especially for Ma, a former martial artist-turned-courier and postman specializing in transporting and smuggling services. So when Ma and his friends are hired by the mysterious Hsu, who claims to be working for a wealthy, powerful warlord and wishes to enlist Ma's assistance to deliver for him a cargo of four mysterious cases to the warlord, cases, where they will be paid handsomely for their services on the condition that they will '''NOT''' in any way, attempt to find out what they're transporting. transporting, they immediately agrees to the assignment. Eager for the money, Ma and his team, including Yao Jie, which is Ma's best friend Yao-jie (Yuen Yat-cho), Fu Jun, a fellow courier also hired for the job which Ma is forced to work with (Fu Jun), Fu Jun (Chow Yun-fat), and Bu, a muscular friendly local coal miner and brute which Ma is friendly with Bu (Fan Mei-sheng).Mei-sheng), sets off on a long trip across the cold winter wastelands of Northern China. But their mission is compromised, and Hsu is not who he seems.
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* MoreDakka: The mysterious package Ma’s team of couriers had to deliver to the warlord, turns out to be [[spoiler: a belt-fed automatic machine-gun]]. [[spoiler: Hu demonstrates the effectiveness of this weapon by using it to gun down two dozen captured prisoners, then use it to dispose of Yao-jie and his sisters to LeaveNoWitnesses]]. Later on, [[spoiler: Bu sneaks into the warlord’s camp and manage to hijack this weapon, gunning down scores and scores of enemies including the warelord himself]].
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* MoreDakka: The mysterious package Ma’s team of couriers had to deliver to the warlord, turns out to be [[spoiler: a belt-fed automatic machine-gun]]. [[spoiler: Hu demonstrates the effectiveness of this weapon by using it to gun down two dozen captured prisoners, then use it to dispose of Yao-jie and his sisters to LeaveNoWitnesses]]. Later on, [[spoiler: Bu sneaks into the warlord’s camp and manage to hijack this weapon, gunning down scores and scores of enemies including the warelord warlord himself]].
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* HollywoodMagnetism: One of Hsu’s many hidden weapons is his wrist shield, which is also a magnet which can pluck FU Jun’s fired dart out of thin air. Later in the final confrontation, [[spoiler: Hsu tries to sneak upon Ma by tunneling underground for a sneak attack, but Ma managed to counter it by using his compass to locate Hsu via magnet]].
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* HollywoodMagnetism: One of Hsu’s many hidden weapons is his wrist shield, which is also a magnet which can pluck FU Fu Jun’s fired dart out of thin air. Later in the final confrontation, [[spoiler: Hsu tries to sneak upon Ma by tunneling underground for a sneak attack, but Ma managed to counter it by using his compass to locate Hsu via magnet]].
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* AdvertisedExtra: [[https://www.fareastfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-Postman-Fights-Back.jpg The re-issued DVD covers]] of this movie would tend to hype Chow Yun-fat’s presence in this film, even though he plays second fiddle to Bryan Leung’s character Ma. Understandable, since this movie came out before Film/ABetterTomorrow made Chow a megastar and cinematic icon.
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* AdvertisedExtra: [[https://www.fareastfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-Postman-Fights-Back.jpg The re-issued DVD covers]] of this movie would tend to hype Chow Yun-fat’s presence in this film, even though he plays second fiddle to Bryan Leung’s character Ma. Understandable, since this movie came out before Film/ABetterTomorrow ''Film/ABetterTomorrow'' made Chow a megastar and cinematic icon.
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* GoodHairEvilHair: Ma and Bu both have moustaches, as did Hsu and the warlord leader. Averted for Chow Yun-fat’s Fu Jun however.
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* GoodHairEvilHair: Ma and Bu both have moustaches, mustaches, as did Hsu and the warlord leader. Averted for Chow Yun-fat’s Fu Jun however.
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** The warlord intends to use his newly-received mysterious package, which [[spoiler: turns out to be a heavy machine gun]], to wipe out all enemy armies who opposes him. [[spoiler: But he diden’t count on Bu, on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, to sneak into his camp, hijack his new machine-gun, and turn it against his army killing everyone including himself]].
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** The warlord intends to use his newly-received mysterious package, which [[spoiler: turns out to be a heavy machine gun]], to wipe out all enemy armies who opposes him. [[spoiler: But he diden’t didn't count on Bu, on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, to sneak into his camp, hijack his new machine-gun, and turn it against his army killing everyone including himself]].
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* RollerbladeGood: One of the fight scenes had the courier team crossing a frozen lake, where they have to fight a whole group of rollerblading bandits who had an advantage over the heroes because of their rollerblades.
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* RollerbladeGood: One of the fight scenes had the courier team crossing a frozen lake, where they have to fight a whole group of rollerblading bandits who had an advantage over the heroes because of their rollerblades.roller-blades.
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''The Postman Fights Back'' is a 1982 Hong Kong MartialArtsMovie directed by Ronny Yu in his directorial debut, starring Bryan Leung, Creator/ChowYunFat (a few years before ''Film/ABetterTomorrow'' made him famous), Eddy Ko (from ''Film/HeroesShedsNoTears'') and Shaw Brothers action veteran Fan Mei-sheng, who would later co-star with Chow in ''Rich And Famous''.
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''The Postman Fights Back'' is a 1982 Hong Kong MartialArtsMovie directed by Ronny Yu in his directorial debut, starring Bryan Leung, Creator/ChowYunFat (a few years before ''Film/ABetterTomorrow'' made him famous), Eddy Ko (from ''Film/HeroesShedsNoTears'') ''Film/HeroesShedNoTears'') and Shaw Brothers action veteran Fan Mei-sheng, who would later co-star with Chow in ''Rich And Famous''.
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** TheHeart: Yao-jie, Ma’s closest friend and the most naïve of the team.
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** TheHeart: Yao-jie, Ma’s closest friend and the most naïve of the team.
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''The Postman Fights Back'' is a 1982 Hong Kong MartialArtsMovie directed by Ronny Yu in his directorial debut, starring Bryan Leung, Creator/ChowYunFat (a few years before ''Film/ABetterTomorrow'' made him famous), Eddy Ko (from ''Film/HeroesShedsNoTears'') and Shaw Brothers action veteran Fan Mei-sheng, who would later co-star with Chow in ''Rich And Famous''.
Living in the cold wastelands of Northern China can be rough, especially for Ma, a former martial artist-turned-courier and postman specializing in transporting and smuggling services. So when Ma and his friends are hired by the mysterious Hsu, who claims to be working for a wealthy, powerful warlord and wishes to enlist Ma's assistance to deliver a cargo of four mysterious cases to the warlord, where they will be paid handsomely for their services on the condition that they will '''NOT''' in any way, attempt to find out what they're transporting. Eager for the money, Ma and his team, including Yao Jie, which is Ma's best friend (Yuen Yat-cho), Fu Jun, a fellow courier also hired for the job which Ma is forced to work with (Fu Jun), and Bu, a muscular coal miner and brute which Ma is friendly with (Fan Mei-sheng). But their mission is compromised, and Hsu is not who he seems.
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* AdvertisedExtra: [[https://www.fareastfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-Postman-Fights-Back.jpg The re-issued DVD covers]] of this movie would tend to hype Chow Yun-fat’s presence in this film, even though he plays second fiddle to Bryan Leung’s character Ma. Understandable, since this movie came out before Film/ABetterTomorrow made Chow a megastar and cinematic icon.
* BoisterousBruiser: Bu, a huge and muscular brute who acts as the MightyGlacier of the team, but is also a jolly BigFun of a man.
* CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: [[spoiler: When Hsu starts using the heavy machine gun to massacre the prisoners, Yao-jie quickly tells his sisters to turn around and look at him, while holding them into his chest so they can’t see the massacre]].
* FiveManBand: Appropriately enough, there are five main characters in the courier team, and they all fit the bill of the band:
** TheHero: Ma the courier, who leads the team.
** TheLancer: Fu Jun, the weapons expert and second-best fighter.
** TheBigGuy: Bu, a former coal miner, largest and strongest in the courier team.
** TheHeart: Yao-jie, Ma’s closest friend and the most naïve of the team.
** TheChick: Gui-hua, the sole female of the team.
** SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler: Hsu]].
* GoodHairEvilHair: Ma and Bu both have moustaches, as did Hsu and the warlord leader. Averted for Chow Yun-fat’s Fu Jun however.
* GratuitousNinja: Hsu, the BigBad, turns out to have been trained in the arts of ninjutsu in Japan, and is clad with his own ninja outfits packing with all sorts of hidden weapons and gadgetry.
* GrimUpNorth: Most of the movie is set in the Northern Chinese border, during winter.
* IHaveAFamily: [[spoiler: Yao-jie’s reason for becoming an informant, is because both of his younger sisters are captives captured alive by the rebel warlord, and he’s forced to assist Hsu in double-crossing his entire team in exchange for his sister’s lives]].
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: Hsu is responsible for killing most of the named characters, including torturing Miss Li to death, hanging Gui-hua, stabbing Fu Jun InTheBack with his concealed hook and turning his machine gun on the fleeing Yao Jie]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** During Fu Jun’s battle with Hsu, Fu Jun tries using his scarf as a makeshift weapon (it worked before in the twins fight) to ensnare Hsu, [[spoiler: only for Hsu to use it to bind Fu Jun’s hands behind him, allowing Hsu to stab the now-defenceless Fu Jun InTheBack]].
** The warlord intends to use his newly-received mysterious package, which [[spoiler: turns out to be a heavy machine gun]], to wipe out all enemy armies who opposes him. [[spoiler: But he diden’t count on Bu, on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, to sneak into his camp, hijack his new machine-gun, and turn it against his army killing everyone including himself]].
* HollywoodMagnetism: One of Hsu’s many hidden weapons is his wrist shield, which is also a magnet which can pluck FU Jun’s fired dart out of thin air. Later in the final confrontation, [[spoiler: Hsu tries to sneak upon Ma by tunneling underground for a sneak attack, but Ma managed to counter it by using his compass to locate Hsu via magnet]].
* HumanLadder: The DualBoss twin midgets who fights Fu Jun simultaneously can [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UTc86SuUHA fight while having one carry the other atop his shoulders]], making them appear to tower over Fu Jun. spoiler: Until Fu manage to gain the upper hand by using his concealed wrist dart to take down one of the twins, whereupon the other instantly becomes easy pickings.
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Averted for Yao-jie’s two kid sisters, both whom are barely 7 years of age. Hsu simply offs them together with Yao-jie using the machine-gun without batting an eye]].
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Yao-jie had finally delivered the mysterious package to Hsu and the warlord, as promised, in exchange for his sisters’ lives, only to discover the package to be a heavy machine-gun intended for the warlord to start a revolution, and Yao-jie can only watch as Hsu demonstrates the machine gun by slaughtering two dozen helpless prisoners. After realizing he’s been used and manipulated against his will, Yao-jie is allowed to leave with his sisters… except not. After all, Hsu had just killed over twenty people with that machine gun, what’s another guy and two little girls anyway]]?
* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler: Hsu’s eventual fate. Ma manage to stab Hsu with a dart in a last-ditch attempt to beat Hsu, but Hsu simply pulls the dart out of his chest… and unintentionally triggers the detonator wire of a hidden explosive device installed in the dart. One OhCrap on Hsu’s face later and BOOM, instant ninja giblets]]!
* MacGuffinDeliveryService: Ma’s courier team, whose assignment is to deliver a mysterious package to a warlord who lives up north, but they’re not allowed to peep through its contents. [[spoiler: Because the package is actually a heavy machine-gun the warlord is intending to use for starting a revolution]].
* MolotovCocktail: Bu briefly uses this weapon against the attacking bandits on the frozen lake battle. He caused a massive explosion that takes out most of the bandits and successfully drives the rest of them away while the courier team makes a hasty retreat.
* MoreDakka: The mysterious package Ma’s team of couriers had to deliver to the warlord, turns out to be [[spoiler: a belt-fed automatic machine-gun]]. [[spoiler: Hu demonstrates the effectiveness of this weapon by using it to gun down two dozen captured prisoners, then use it to dispose of Yao-jie and his sisters to LeaveNoWitnesses]]. Later on, [[spoiler: Bu sneaks into the warlord’s camp and manage to hijack this weapon, gunning down scores and scores of enemies including the warelord himself]].
* NothingUpMySleeve: Fu Jun’s long HandHidingSleeves conceals a hidden dart launcher, which he can use for sneak attacks, effective in taking down a fleeing bandit and later getting him out of a fix in the DualBoss battle. [[spoiler: But against Hsu, unfortunately Hsu’s wrist magnet completely NoSell Fu Jun’s darts]].
* RollerbladeGood: One of the fight scenes had the courier team crossing a frozen lake, where they have to fight a whole group of rollerblading bandits who had an advantage over the heroes because of their rollerblades.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Fu Jun wears a long scarf that combined with ClothFu, allows him to easily bind and restrain opponents, such as strangling the second twin in the DualBoss fight. [[spoiler: Ultimately, his own scarf ends up contributing to his own defeat]]…
* SmokeOut: Hsu, in ninja mode, uses his smoke bombs to make a quick getaway (or to sneak upon his opponents) more than once in the film.
* StockNinjaWeaponry: Hsu, the BigBad, turns out to be a ninja who boasts an immense arsenal of ninja weapons, including a flail, smoke bombs, a wrist magnet, shurikens, wrist flamethrowers, a three-pronged hook blade and a concealed net.
* StuffBlowingUp: Bu’s final stand in the warlord’s quarters had him igniting dynamites and throwing them into the camps of enemy soldiers, blowing up several of them as well as setting off munitions bunkers and explosive piles.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Bu, suffering from multiple injuries and surrounded by rebels, decides to ignite the entire cache of dynamites in the wagon surrounding him, causing a massive explosion that takes out all remaining rebels and himself at the same time]].
* UnwillingSuspension: Miss Li-fu is subjected to being hung from one of her wrists after being captured alive by Hsu, who interrogates her while gleefully watching her in pain. [[spoiler: Then torturing her to death while she’s still hanging]].
* WackyWaysideTribe: Hordes and hordes of mountain bandits awaits, attempting to hinder Ma and his team's progress through the winter wastelands.
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''The Postman Fights Back'' is a 1982 Hong Kong MartialArtsMovie directed by Ronny Yu in his directorial debut, starring Bryan Leung, Creator/ChowYunFat (a few years before ''Film/ABetterTomorrow'' made him famous), Eddy Ko (from ''Film/HeroesShedsNoTears'') and Shaw Brothers action veteran Fan Mei-sheng, who would later co-star with Chow in ''Rich And Famous''.
Living in the cold wastelands of Northern China can be rough, especially for Ma, a former martial artist-turned-courier and postman specializing in transporting and smuggling services. So when Ma and his friends are hired by the mysterious Hsu, who claims to be working for a wealthy, powerful warlord and wishes to enlist Ma's assistance to deliver a cargo of four mysterious cases to the warlord, where they will be paid handsomely for their services on the condition that they will '''NOT''' in any way, attempt to find out what they're transporting. Eager for the money, Ma and his team, including Yao Jie, which is Ma's best friend (Yuen Yat-cho), Fu Jun, a fellow courier also hired for the job which Ma is forced to work with (Fu Jun), and Bu, a muscular coal miner and brute which Ma is friendly with (Fan Mei-sheng). But their mission is compromised, and Hsu is not who he seems.
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* AdvertisedExtra: [[https://www.fareastfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-Postman-Fights-Back.jpg The re-issued DVD covers]] of this movie would tend to hype Chow Yun-fat’s presence in this film, even though he plays second fiddle to Bryan Leung’s character Ma. Understandable, since this movie came out before Film/ABetterTomorrow made Chow a megastar and cinematic icon.
* BoisterousBruiser: Bu, a huge and muscular brute who acts as the MightyGlacier of the team, but is also a jolly BigFun of a man.
* CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: [[spoiler: When Hsu starts using the heavy machine gun to massacre the prisoners, Yao-jie quickly tells his sisters to turn around and look at him, while holding them into his chest so they can’t see the massacre]].
* FiveManBand: Appropriately enough, there are five main characters in the courier team, and they all fit the bill of the band:
** TheHero: Ma the courier, who leads the team.
** TheLancer: Fu Jun, the weapons expert and second-best fighter.
** TheBigGuy: Bu, a former coal miner, largest and strongest in the courier team.
** TheHeart: Yao-jie, Ma’s closest friend and the most naïve of the team.
** TheChick: Gui-hua, the sole female of the team.
** SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler: Hsu]].
* GoodHairEvilHair: Ma and Bu both have moustaches, as did Hsu and the warlord leader. Averted for Chow Yun-fat’s Fu Jun however.
* GratuitousNinja: Hsu, the BigBad, turns out to have been trained in the arts of ninjutsu in Japan, and is clad with his own ninja outfits packing with all sorts of hidden weapons and gadgetry.
* GrimUpNorth: Most of the movie is set in the Northern Chinese border, during winter.
* IHaveAFamily: [[spoiler: Yao-jie’s reason for becoming an informant, is because both of his younger sisters are captives captured alive by the rebel warlord, and he’s forced to assist Hsu in double-crossing his entire team in exchange for his sister’s lives]].
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: Hsu is responsible for killing most of the named characters, including torturing Miss Li to death, hanging Gui-hua, stabbing Fu Jun InTheBack with his concealed hook and turning his machine gun on the fleeing Yao Jie]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** During Fu Jun’s battle with Hsu, Fu Jun tries using his scarf as a makeshift weapon (it worked before in the twins fight) to ensnare Hsu, [[spoiler: only for Hsu to use it to bind Fu Jun’s hands behind him, allowing Hsu to stab the now-defenceless Fu Jun InTheBack]].
** The warlord intends to use his newly-received mysterious package, which [[spoiler: turns out to be a heavy machine gun]], to wipe out all enemy armies who opposes him. [[spoiler: But he diden’t count on Bu, on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, to sneak into his camp, hijack his new machine-gun, and turn it against his army killing everyone including himself]].
* HollywoodMagnetism: One of Hsu’s many hidden weapons is his wrist shield, which is also a magnet which can pluck FU Jun’s fired dart out of thin air. Later in the final confrontation, [[spoiler: Hsu tries to sneak upon Ma by tunneling underground for a sneak attack, but Ma managed to counter it by using his compass to locate Hsu via magnet]].
* HumanLadder: The DualBoss twin midgets who fights Fu Jun simultaneously can [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UTc86SuUHA fight while having one carry the other atop his shoulders]], making them appear to tower over Fu Jun. spoiler: Until Fu manage to gain the upper hand by using his concealed wrist dart to take down one of the twins, whereupon the other instantly becomes easy pickings.
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Averted for Yao-jie’s two kid sisters, both whom are barely 7 years of age. Hsu simply offs them together with Yao-jie using the machine-gun without batting an eye]].
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Yao-jie had finally delivered the mysterious package to Hsu and the warlord, as promised, in exchange for his sisters’ lives, only to discover the package to be a heavy machine-gun intended for the warlord to start a revolution, and Yao-jie can only watch as Hsu demonstrates the machine gun by slaughtering two dozen helpless prisoners. After realizing he’s been used and manipulated against his will, Yao-jie is allowed to leave with his sisters… except not. After all, Hsu had just killed over twenty people with that machine gun, what’s another guy and two little girls anyway]]?
* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler: Hsu’s eventual fate. Ma manage to stab Hsu with a dart in a last-ditch attempt to beat Hsu, but Hsu simply pulls the dart out of his chest… and unintentionally triggers the detonator wire of a hidden explosive device installed in the dart. One OhCrap on Hsu’s face later and BOOM, instant ninja giblets]]!
* MacGuffinDeliveryService: Ma’s courier team, whose assignment is to deliver a mysterious package to a warlord who lives up north, but they’re not allowed to peep through its contents. [[spoiler: Because the package is actually a heavy machine-gun the warlord is intending to use for starting a revolution]].
* MolotovCocktail: Bu briefly uses this weapon against the attacking bandits on the frozen lake battle. He caused a massive explosion that takes out most of the bandits and successfully drives the rest of them away while the courier team makes a hasty retreat.
* MoreDakka: The mysterious package Ma’s team of couriers had to deliver to the warlord, turns out to be [[spoiler: a belt-fed automatic machine-gun]]. [[spoiler: Hu demonstrates the effectiveness of this weapon by using it to gun down two dozen captured prisoners, then use it to dispose of Yao-jie and his sisters to LeaveNoWitnesses]]. Later on, [[spoiler: Bu sneaks into the warlord’s camp and manage to hijack this weapon, gunning down scores and scores of enemies including the warelord himself]].
* NothingUpMySleeve: Fu Jun’s long HandHidingSleeves conceals a hidden dart launcher, which he can use for sneak attacks, effective in taking down a fleeing bandit and later getting him out of a fix in the DualBoss battle. [[spoiler: But against Hsu, unfortunately Hsu’s wrist magnet completely NoSell Fu Jun’s darts]].
* RollerbladeGood: One of the fight scenes had the courier team crossing a frozen lake, where they have to fight a whole group of rollerblading bandits who had an advantage over the heroes because of their rollerblades.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Fu Jun wears a long scarf that combined with ClothFu, allows him to easily bind and restrain opponents, such as strangling the second twin in the DualBoss fight. [[spoiler: Ultimately, his own scarf ends up contributing to his own defeat]]…
* SmokeOut: Hsu, in ninja mode, uses his smoke bombs to make a quick getaway (or to sneak upon his opponents) more than once in the film.
* StockNinjaWeaponry: Hsu, the BigBad, turns out to be a ninja who boasts an immense arsenal of ninja weapons, including a flail, smoke bombs, a wrist magnet, shurikens, wrist flamethrowers, a three-pronged hook blade and a concealed net.
* StuffBlowingUp: Bu’s final stand in the warlord’s quarters had him igniting dynamites and throwing them into the camps of enemy soldiers, blowing up several of them as well as setting off munitions bunkers and explosive piles.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Bu, suffering from multiple injuries and surrounded by rebels, decides to ignite the entire cache of dynamites in the wagon surrounding him, causing a massive explosion that takes out all remaining rebels and himself at the same time]].
* UnwillingSuspension: Miss Li-fu is subjected to being hung from one of her wrists after being captured alive by Hsu, who interrogates her while gleefully watching her in pain. [[spoiler: Then torturing her to death while she’s still hanging]].
* WackyWaysideTribe: Hordes and hordes of mountain bandits awaits, attempting to hinder Ma and his team's progress through the winter wastelands.
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** TheHeart: Yao-jie, Ma’s closest friend and the most naïve of the team.
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** TheHeart: Yao-jie, Ma’s closest friend and the most naïve of the team.
