Consistently listed in Quentin Tarantino’s top ten films of all time, Five Fingers of Death (aka King Boxer) is the cult classic that helped launch the global kung fu craze! Jeng Cheong-Woh’s fight-filled epic stars Lo Lieh as a humble student who must win a vicious martial arts tournament to receive permission to marry the woman he loves.
“You’d expect a movie from 1972 to feel old fashioned, but with its scenesof maximum martial carnage, it’s easy to see why Five Fingers of Deathwas a grindhouse crowdpleaser all throughout the Seventies. The action scenes come fast and furious, each of them offering yet another essay in mayhem, each one full of novelties, twists, and sudden surprises. Impatiently edited, full of wipes, zooms, and blasting musical cues, it injects all the furious rage of the new generation into the tired old kung fu corpse, and turns it into a super-brawling street fighter of a movie.” – NewYork Asian Film Festival
