The Tattoo Connection

This month's free kung-fu movie at Alamo Village is the 1978 film The Tattoo Connection (E yu tou hei sha xing), starring Jim Kelly. Here's the Alamo blurb:

"Jim Kelly (BLACK BELT JONES) stars as a CIA agent who goes to Hong Kong to retrieve a stolen diamond in this fast-moving, crude, badly dubbed action trash movie. It doesn't make much sense (if you're into movies that make sense), but it has all the tactile pleasures of those movies we now identify with the grindhouse era. There's a lot of fighting; a great, thumping soundtrack of pilfered American funk and Euro jams; tons of gratuitous nudity; cheap suits; genuinely dangerous car action and tattoos - lots of tattoos. Kelly acts about as cool as is possible under the ridiculous circumstances. When this movie was first released in the US, the cheeba-smoking hustlers in the all-night Times Square theaters must have had a ball with it. We're not too sophisticated to enjoy it too. How about you?"