• Basher Box (The Prodigal Boxer & The Awaken Punch)

Basher Box (The Prodigal Boxer & The Awaken Punch)

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Format: Blu-Ray
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In a 1973 film that bares many similarities to Bruce Lee's debut film The Big Boss, The Awaken Punch's Henry Yu Yang plays an altruistic fighter who begins to build a name for himself as he violently cleans up a town from within its more seedier elements. But when he must abide by a promise to his dying father to give up his fighting ways, he will be faced with a new challenge in the arrival of the knife-throwing master Tien Feng (Fist of Fury) and his gang. With action from the legendary Yuen Woo-Ping (Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and a cameo from a young Jackie Chan and others, this basher is the epitome of the Punch and Block violence that began a long trend within Martial Arts cinema. USA aka title: Fury of the Black Belt.

Dir. Lung-Hsiang Fang 101 mins

The Prodigal Boxer (1972) is an early take on the legend of martial artist Fong Sai-Yuk (later to be portrayed by the likes of Jet Li and Alexander Fu-Sheng), here played by Mang Fei. Once Fong Inadvertently kills a student of the rival school run by Iron Hand Tan (Kurata Yasuaki), this action leads to a series of near death confrontations between the men concluding in a tournament battle of the ages. Choreographed by Shaw Brothers' Lau Kar-Wing (the brother of the great Gordon Liu and Lau Kar-Leung) this film represents the brawling style of the time as well as the genesis of the more stylistic "Shapes" trend of martial arts action that would soon follow.

Dir. Yang-Ming Tsai 90 mins

Format
Format Blu-Ray
Film
Year 1972
Rating 15
Director Lung-Hsiang Fang | Yang-Ming Tsai
Starring

The Awakening Punch

Yung Henry Yu

Pui-San Auyeung

Feng Tien

Li Meng

Nancy Sit

Prodical Boxer cast

Fei Meng

Lin-Lin Li

Yasuaki Kurata

Hung Pai

Ching Wong

Country Taiwan | Hong Kong
Label VCI Entertainment
Region / TV Standard Region 0
Language English
Subtitles English SDH subtitles
Running time 191 mins (combibned)
Aspect ratio 2.35:1
Case type Standard
Extra features
  • Audio Commentary on The Prodigal Boxer with actor/director Michael Worth and Clones Cast/Cinema Bushido host Matthew Whittaker
  • Creative Chaos: The Basher Genre: an interview with Michael Worth and Action Choreographer John Kreng
  • Original Theatrical Trailers to both films
  • Essays on the Basher genre within Kung Fu Cinema History

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