Hong Kong martial arts cinema: why King Boxer (1972), aka Five Fingers of Death, remains a fan favourite

The main claim to fame of King Boxer – also known as Five Fingers of Death – is that it launched the wave of martial arts films in the US that took place in the early 1970s. Picked up for US distribution by Warner Brothers, who were seeing success with the television series Kung Fu , King Boxer surprised everybody by topping the US box office charts for a week at the time.The movie was released in the US in March in 1973, around a year after its Hong Kong debut. That was a few months before…

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