The Awaken Punch

The Awaken Punch
The Awaken Punch
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)
Release date	23 May 1973;
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Mandarin
Box office	HK$439,052 (Hong Kong) ; 201,862 tickets (France)

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 Fong Lung-Seung. The film is as an early example of Yuen Wo Ping's fight choreography and features Jackie Chan as an extra.

Plot

Henry yu Young 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

Henry Yu Yung as Cheung Da Gong
Au-Yeung Pui San as Jun Shen
Tien Feng as Mr. Wong
Mang Lee as brothel Madam
Kenneth Tsang Goes to Law
Suen Lam as Commissioner
San Kuai as Li (Black Fan)
Fong Yau as Pai (White Fan)
Fung Hark-On as one of the main thug
Lee Chiu as one of the main thug

Extras

References

^ "The Awaken Punch". Hong Kong Movie Database. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
^ Soyer, Renaud (4 February 2014). "Jackie Chan Box Office". Box Office Story. Retrieved 1 July 2020.

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[1] "The Awaken Punch". Hong Kong Movie Database. Retrieved 8 April 2022.

[2] Soyer, Renaud (4 February 2014). "Jackie Chan Box Office". Box Office Story. Retrieved 1 July 2020.

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