'Writing Strike'),[2] also known as Chinese Samson[3] and Hot Dog Kung Fu,[3] is a 1979 Hong Kong martial arts drama film directed by Bolo Yeung (credited as Yang Sze).

A man wearing all white enters town pretending to be a tea and salt trade delegate and regarded with suspicion by a traveling blind fortune-teller and his assistant, both of them drunken boxers.

The teacher is robbed of his winnings at night, then in the daytime he finds Ah Cheung's mother dead in her house with a noose hanging from the roof in an attempt to stage the scene as if it were a suicide.

The beggar teaches the teacher new kung fu moves based on lines of poetry shortly before dying.

The teacher fervently practices techniques of kung fu involving writing as Ah Yen kills the girl in pink's brother and his associates.

There is a poignancy and anger to the story which makes it more than just your standard kung fu movie, with Bolo casting himself as the embodiment of pure evil.

Dressed in white (the colour of death in China), he poses as a Grim Reaper-like salt trader to infiltrate a small ragtag community of orphans, alcoholics and unscrupulous profiteers, before bumping them off with the hope of stealing their treasure.

A child killer, a rapist, and a sadistic assassin responsible for a mining attack some 10 years previously, Bolo's a flute-playing harbinger of doom in a bleak backwater town whose only hope is John Cheung's troubled scholar.

Cheung's attempts to offer the community's orphaned children an education sees him run out of town as a useless do-gooder.

Cheung hits the bottle but is saved by a homeless man who teaches him kung fu through a wonderful sequence of poetry and movement.

By developing his own style of 'calligraphy kung fu', Bolo takes a very literal stance on the meaning of the age-old proverb, 'the pen is mightier than the sword'.

The film's downbeat ending is symbolic and poses a moral conundrum: who are the heroes in a world where greed is rewarded and the actions of an honest man is overlooked?