Dec 20 2008
Saturday Night Funky Flicks: Five Fingers of Death (1973)
A promotional Lobby card of the US release
Source: Wikipedia
Welcome to the first installment of a weekly series wich will be happening right here each and every Saturday night. Every week the Outskirts will feature a quirky, creative and sometimes absurd film from the public domain vaults in a new series called Saturday Night Funky Flicks. This week’s feature is The Hong Kong martial arts flippin,’ funked-out, Kung Fu classic - 1973’s Five Fingers of Death! It is a typical, fast-action, heartbeat-racing, kick fest in brilliant and brazen 70’s fashion!
Fingers, also known as “King Boxer” is considered among the first of a slew of films in a genre that would have a short-lived cinematic history, but would receive a cultish reputation after the release of Bruce Lee’s 1972 epic Enter the Dragon in the same year as its Hong Kong release.
From Wikipedia:
“The movie follows a promising young martial arts student named Chi-Hao. He has spent most of his life studying under a master and has fallen in love with the master’s daughter Yin-Yin. After the master fails to properly fight off a group of thugs, he sends Chi-Hao to study under a superior master, Shen Chin-Pei. He instructs Chi-Hao to learn from Chin-Pei and defeat the local martial arts tyrant, Ming Dung-Shun, in an upcoming tournament in order to earn Yin-Yin’s hand…” (more)
Five Fingers of Death (1973 US Version)
Starring Lo Lieh and Directed by Jeong Chang-hwa
Come back here next Saturday for more funk from the Outskirts!
