King Boxer (1972)
1972 Hong Kong film by Jeong Chang-hwa
- Released
- 28 April 1972
- Country
- British Hong Kong
- Language
- Chinese
- Genre
- Martial arts film
- Director
- Jeong Chang-hwa
- Screenplay
- Patrick Kong Yeung
- Producer
- Run Run Shaw
- Music
- Frankie Chan
- Cinematography
- Wong Wing-Lung
- Editing
- Chiang Hsing-lung, Fan Kung-Wing
- Starring
- Lo Lieh, Wang Ping, Tien Feng, Wong Gam-Fung, Fang Mian, Ku Wen-Chung, Chao Hsiung
- Running time
- 116 minutes
- Production company
- Shaw Brothers Studio
- Distributor
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
King Boxer (Chinese: 天下第一拳; pinyin: Tiān xià dì yī quán; lit. 'Number One Fist in the World', released in the United States as Five Fingers of Death) is a 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film produced by Shaw Brothers Studio, directed by Jeong Chang-hwa, starring Lo Lieh, and featuring fight choreography by Lau Kar-wing.
Released in the United States by Warner Bros. in March 1973, the film capitalized on the success of Warner's TV series Kung Fu and was responsible for beginning the North American kung fu film craze of the 1970s, with over 30 similar films being released in the U.S. in 1973 alone. Warner followed it with the first U.S.-Hong Kong martial arts co-production Enter the Dragon released later that same year, which was the most successful of the chopsocky films of 1973.
More films directed by Jeong Chang-hwa
- Broken Oath 1977
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q1077127 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.