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  • Complete Monster: Abbot Kung Ming, who appears to be the senior monk of the Zhao Qing Monastery, actually runs the temple as a Human Trafficking syndicate specializing in abducting young women, drugging them to insanity before selling them to brothels. When a band of warriors tries to investigate the monastery, the Abbot sends several of his men to be killed in order to lure the warriors in, and then activates various traps, including spiked walls and flaming pits, to kill all of them. Stopping at nothing to silence any witnesses aware of his operations, the Abbot had a carpenter who found out the truth of his monastery flogged, forcing the carpenter's wife and sister to give themselves into prostitution to save the carpenter's life, before ordering the carpenter to be killed anyways once the wife and sister are Brainwashed and Crazy. This is an act which the Abbot is revealed to have performed on a regular basis, which he shows no remorse and is even depicted as enjoying onscreen, having his personal harem of drugged prostitutes serving him in his personal chamber.
  • Romantic Plot Tumor: Between the hero Wen Su-Chen and Damsel in Distress Hong-yu... yes, he did save her from being sold off, but then the movie grinds to a halt with a lengthy Falling-in-Love Montage from out of nowhere, lasts for ten minutes or so, and doesn't even have a conclusion — after the final battle, there isn't a scene of Su-Chen uniting with Hong-yu, or an actual resolution to the love story plot. The film pretty much ends immediately after Abbot Kung Ming's defeat.

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