The 70s Filipino knockoff you never knew you needed: karate cyborg orphan seeks vengeance.
An Interpol agent is killed by gangsters after he saves the life of a wealthy industrialist who stood in their way. When the rest of his family is killed in a car crash, the Interpol agent’s badly injured son is fitted with heavy-duty artificial limbs.
Practical Effects
The bionic limbs look like vacuum cleaner parts. Sincerely.
Stunts
Filipino karate cinema energy with zero safety regulations.
Director
Leody M. Diaz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a shameless ripoff of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, produced in the Philippines to exploit a legal loophole in international copyright enforcement.
Director Leody M. Diaz was a prolific figure in 1970s Filipino action cinema, churning out low-budget genre films that rarely screened outside Southeast Asia until recent cult rediscovery.
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