Five Fingers of Death (1972) on Netflix
Chao Chih-Hao studies under Master Sung Wu-yang and loves the master's daughter, Ying Ying. Sent to a new school to train for a tournament, he rescues a young singer from local thugs.
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Plot summary
Master Sung Wu-yang has trained Chao Chih-Hao for most of the young man's life, and Chao Chih-Hao loves the master's daughter, Ying Ying. Sung fails to drive off a band of thugs, so he sends the young man to study under a finer teacher and orders him to beat Meng Tung-Shun, the region's martial arts tyrant, at an upcoming tournament; the prize is Ying Ying's hand. On the road Chao Chih-Hao rescues a young singer from Meng's men, and she falls in love with him while he struggles to keep his distance. At the new school the leading pupil, Han Lung, beats him at first, but he improves quickly. Meng's thugs are still terrorizing the town he left behind.
Cast
- Lung Yuas Tu Wei
- Shen Chanas Wan Hung-chieh
- Hsiung Chaoas Okada
- Yukio Somenoas Oshima Shotaro
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Five Fingers of Death (1972)
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- Released in the United States by Warner Bros. in March 1973 as Five Fingers of Death, the film rode the success of Warner's TV series Kung Fu and launched the North American kung fu craze of the 1970s; over 30 similar films came out in the U.S. in 1973 alone.
- In director Jeong Chang-hwa's native South Korea the film was re-titled The Iron Man, and distributor Shin Sang-ok falsely sold it as a South Korean co-production to avoid import taxes. Ten minutes were cut from that version, removing all the gorier scenes.
- The theme song from the American television series Ironside, composed by Quincy Jones, is used in the Hong Kong martial arts film as a leitmotif.
- Quentin Tarantino packed references to King Boxer into his Kill Bill films, borrowing the "Ironside Theme" as a musical motif and the eye-gouging move of Tien-siung.
