Super Dragon

John Chang is a respected escort and martial artist who protects merchants traveling across lawless countryside, making a living by keeping valuable cargo safe. When a high value shipment needs escorting, he accepts the job, expecting routine threats and petty bandits. Instead a masked raider appears on several nights, matching Chang's skill and forcing a string of violent encounters that push him to the limits of his technique and patience. As the caravan moves onward, loyalties fray, rival fighters arrive, and hints emerge that the cargo hides more than gold. Alliances change and moral choices complicate every fight, as Chang tries to protect the innocent while learning who hides behind the mask. The tone stays lean and fast throughout, unromantic.

Released in 1976, Super Dragon was directed by Paul Chang Chung and draws on material by Gu Long, a popular wuxia novelist. The cast includes John Cheung Ng-Long, Elliot Ngok Wah, Phillip Ko Fai, Mark Lung and Cliff Lok respectively.

Box office records for Super Dragon are scarce, with no widely reported worldwide gross. Like many regional martial arts releases of the era, it circulated through Hong Kong and Southeast Asian markets, gaining modest theatrical exposure instead of commercial breakthroughs.

While Super Dragon never achieved broad international fame, it retains a niche place among 1970s kung fu aficionados, noted for its brisk fight sequences and the masked raider motif. Clips and stills surface in retrospectives on Hong Kong action cinema, appreciated by collectors and genre historians and late screenings occasionally.

Critical response to Super Dragon has been mixed to modest, reflected by a small user rating around 5.5 out of 10 from limited votes. Viewers note the film's emphasis on honor, loyalty and identity, its straightforward moral conflicts, and its focus on close quarters martial arts, over narrative complexity and realism.