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Cast
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Kuan Tai Chen | ... |
Ma Yung Chen (introducing)
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Li Ching | ... |
Chin Ling-tzu
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David Chiang | ... |
Tan Sze (guest star)
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Mario Milano | ... |
Russian Boxer
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Ching Tien | ... |
Li Tsai-chun - Champion 3 (guest star)
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Feng Ku | ... |
Chang Chin-fa - Champion 2
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Nan Chiang | ... |
Yang Shuang
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Yi Feng | ... |
Fan A-ken - Champion 1
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Kang-Yeh Cheng | ... |
Hsiao Chiang-pei
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Ching Wang | ... |
Lu Pu - Champion 4
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Hao Chen | ... |
Mr. Chin
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Shang Yun Liang |
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Yen Tsan Tang |
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Lao Shen | ... |
Innkeeper
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Wen Tai Li |
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Ma Yung Cheng leaves Shantung, trying to find better fortune in Shanghai, trusting his youth and physical valour. He meets friendship with Hsiai Chiang Pei, and love (CHING LI), and fate has him meet, and find employment with a local gangster. He defeats an undefeatable Foreign Champion, then three champions at once, only to fall into a trap set up by gangster arch-rival Yang Shuang... Written by Artemis-9
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Country:
Hong KongLanguage:
MandarinRelease Date:
11 February 1972 (Hong Kong) See more »Also Known As:
Boxer from Shantung See more »Company Credits
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Technical Specs
Runtime:
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2.35 : 1
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Occasionally too gluey Eastern about the rising of Ma Yongzhen [ Chen Kuan Tai, in the German title he's giving a pirate, not a boxer ] , who hast to recognize later, the air up there is quite thin. The formal data's of the movie are quite impressing: John Woo as assistant director, Chen Kuan Tai became one the Top Actors thru it, it's with KING BOXER and FIST OF FURY one of THE influential movies of the time, followed by a somehow sequel [ IRON MAN ] and a remake [ Corey Yuen Kwai's HERO, with Takeshi Kaneshiro and the then-comeback of Yuen Biao ].
An epic is aimed, the premise is well, but due to the missing pace and the lacking dramatic and elaboration it isn't reached. The action scenes are either rigid or way too exaggerated, and some sequences could have been cut; a running time of 2hrs is too much for that. For example the Wrestling episode, which is terribly long, but also some sections with Ching Li as eye-catcher and secret love interest of Ma Yongzhen, which adds nothing at all to the film. So there's only struggle to the next, the opponents are always increasing, Ma himself is little impressed by that. At the end he runs around a tea house, collapsing it and beating the sh*t out of estimated 200 thugs, and already has an Axe cut in his belly. Thats too silly.
Movie has sure his strengths, production values is as high as the body count, Chen Kuan Tai does very well in his first leading role, there's an expanded cameo of David Chiang and the gangster story is something new, compared to the usual revenge - plot. The prologue and epilogue are quite fine, between them is a good film, but not an outstanding one.