天下第一拳 Five Fingers of Death

天下第一拳 Five Fingers of Death (a.k.a. King Boxer)

香港 Hong Kong ｜ 1972 ｜102 mins｜數碼 Digital｜彩色 Colour 普通話對白，中、英文字幕 In Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles

26/11 (Fri) 07:45pm*

*朴漢峻博士將出席映後談 Dr Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park will attend the after-screening talk.

導演 Director 鄭昌和 Chung Chang-wha

演員 Cast 羅烈、汪萍、王金鳳、田豐 Lo Lieh , Wang Ping, Wang Chin-feng, Tien Feng

韓國導演鄭昌和以電影技藝圓熟見稱， 動作場面瀟灑俐落，在本片可見一斑。 故事講述趙志豪（羅烈飾）遵從師命， 赴尚武館進修武藝，備戰國術大賽。但 被邪派偷襲重傷，幸得歌女所救，康復 後更練成鐵掌絕技。影片巧妙借用《無 敵鐵探長》（ 1967 ）音樂的警報聲效 渲染情緒，善用剪接加強打鬥節奏，徒 手挖眼亦令人難忘。本片被當年美國影 評人形容為「盡皆過火，盡是癲狂」， 卻是塔倫天奴的心頭好，在《標殺令》 （2003）可明顯看到其影響。

鄭昌和早在 1958 年已執導港、韓合作 的《望鄉》， 1968 年獲邵氏招攬，正 式加盟香港公司，接拍《千面魔女》 （ 1969 ）等六、七部動作片，其中以 《天下第一拳》成功打入歐美市場，比 李小龍更早在美國掀起功夫片熱潮。 鄭昌和於 1973 年轉投嘉禾，再執導了 五部動作片。 1977 年回韓國後轉任監 製，自此再沒執導。

Korean film director Chung Chang-wha was well-known for his consummate craftsmanship as well as gorgeous action sequences - both of which are evident in this work. The story follows the protagonist Chao Chi-ho (Lo Lieh) as he follows his master’s order to further his martial arts training at another school in preparation for participating in a major tournament. He is later seriously wounded in an ambush but is rescued by a young female singer. As he recovers, Chi-ho masters the lethal art of the Iron Palm. Cleverly using the siren-like theme from Ironside (1967) to create tension, which complements the film’s adroit editing to enhance the rhythm of the fight scenes. The scene in which a character is blinded with bare hands is especially memorable. Labelled “all too extravagant, too gratuitously wild” by American film critics, Five Fingers of Death was a favourite of Quentin Tarantino and served as an obvious inspiration for Kill Bill (2003).

Chung Chang-wha was the director of the Hong Kong-Korea coproduction Watching Home Town (1958). He was subsequently recruited by Shaw Brothers to work in Hong Kong and directed six to seven action films including Temptress of a Thousand Faces (1969) before successfully cracking the European and American markets with Five Fingers of Death, inaugurating a kung fu craze in the United States even before Bruce Lee came along. Chung later joined Golden Harvest in 1973, where he helmed 5 additional action films, after which he returned to Korea to work as a producer and never directed another film.

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