In the first of Lee Doo Yong’s taekwondo films, Japanese karate instructor Sasaki, Chinese martial arts master Wang, and Korean taekwondo expert Lee fight over a chest of gold that’s earmarked for the Korean Independence Army. A box office success, the film propelled lead actor Han Yongcheol (later Charlie Shell), in his early twenties at the time, to action superstar status. Exhibiting clear influences from Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars and Bruce Lee’s Hong Kong action flicks, this film was criticized with other six similar action films, which were released in the same year, as being fairly unoriginal.