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Five Fingers of Death

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Five Fingers of Death
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R,1hr 38min
Genre:
Action
Release:
1972
Director:
Cheng Chang Ho
Distributor:
Crash Cinema
Starring:
Lo Lieh, Wang Ching-Feng, Tien Feng  ...more
Synopsis: One of the Shaw Brothers Studios most well-known films, King Boxer was an international success that helped instigate the kung fu craze of the '70s. It opens with an old master (Wen Chung Ku) attacked in an alley. He fends off the fighters, but decides he isn't strong enough to travel to a martial arts school to learn the Iron Fist (also called Iron Palm) fighting technique. He sends his pupil and son-in-law Chao Chi-Hao (Lo Lieh) instead. When Chao arrives at the school, he finds the students and ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Buening, AMG Review
King Boxer is not the best kung fu movie the Shaw Brothers put out, but as an early entry it holds up surprisingly well for a genre getting its legs. Rather than incorporate story elements of its wuxia/swordplay precursors, it offers an original plot, with a formula that would be taken up and repeated in subsequent films. Primary among them is the story of two warring kung fu schools, one good and ... Full Review
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Lo Lieh
Chao Chi-hao
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