| The Awaken Punch | |
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| Directed by | Fong Lung-Seung |
| Written by | Fong Lung-Seung Cory B. Sarangaya |
| Produced by | Jimmy L. Pascual |
| Starring | Chan Sing Henry Yu Young Au-Yeung Pooi-Saan Tien Feng Maang Lee Kenneth Tsang Kong Got Heung-Ting Suen Lam Fong Yau San Kuai |
| Music by | Chow Fook-Leung |
| Distributed by | Dak Lee Film Company, Ltd. (Hong Kong) |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Mandarin |
| Box office | HK$439,052 (Hong Kong)[1] 201,862 tickets (France)[2] |
The Awaken Punch (Chinese: 石破天惊, also known as 红狼醒拳) is a1973Hong Kong martial arts film directed byFong Lung-Seung. The film is as an early example ofYuen Wo Ping'sfight choreography and featuresJackie Chan as an extra.
Henry Yu Yang plays a young man, Cheung Da Gong, who travels from place to place earning a living as a fighter. He fights at times on a stage before spectators, as a hired body guard and altruistically to protect shopkeepers from thugs looking to collectprotection money.
One day Cheung receives a letter which prompts him to return home where his elderly father is sick and dying. At his father's death bed Cheung vows at his father's behest to stay and work his family's farm and to give up fighting.
Local gangsters try to buy Cheung's land and when Cheung refuses attempt to intimidate him first through threats and then by burning down his house, killing Cheung's sister and mother in the process.
Cheung motivated by revenge hunts down the gangsters eventually tracking down their leader and killing him. The movie ends with Cheung submitting to the local authorities when he is arrested on charges of murder with the local deputy admonishing him, "You should have left retribution to the law."
Some of the well known Hong Kong extras from the 70s both fromShaw Brothers andGolden Harvest have participated for this film.
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