The Awaken Punch

The Awaken Punch
The Awaken Punch
Directed by
Written by	;
Produced by
Starring	; ; ; Tien Feng ; ; Kenneth Tsang Kong ; ; ; ;
Music by
Distributed by
Release date	23 May 1973;
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Mandarin

The Awaken Punch(Chinese: 石破天惊, also known as 红狼醒拳) is a 1973 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by . The film is as an early example of Yuen Wo Ping's fight choreography and features Jackie Chan as an extra.

Plot[]

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 collect protection 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."

Cast[]

as Cheung Da Gong
as Jun Shen
Tien Feng as Mr. Wong
as brothel Madam
Kenneth Tsang Goes to Law
as Commissioner
as Li (Black Fan)
as Pai (White Fan)
Fung Hark-On as one of the main thug
as one of the main thug

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