Li Yi-min, star of The 7 Grandmasters, returns as a kung fu novice out to avenge his father’s murder. He’s the kung fu school’s perennially picked-on outcast, until the red-nosed old chef (Yuen Siu-tien from Drunken Master) surreptitiously teaches him how to fight. Meanwhile the mysterious Ghost-Faced Killer (hello, Wu Tang Clan!) is on a wild killing spree. Eventually our unlikely hero finds a master who has invented chess kung fu, and together they set out to vanquish the villain. The Mysteries of Chess Boxing delivers gleefully low-rent antics and dynamic excitement that proved it a watershed movie of the genre.