King Boxer

King Boxer
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	天下第一拳
Simplified Chinese	天下第一拳
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Tiān xià dì yī quán Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Tin1 haa6 dai6 jat1 kyun4
Directed by	Chung Chang-Wha
Screenplay by	Chiang Yang and Chung Chang-Wha
Produced by	Run-run Shaw
Starring	Lo Lieh Wang Ping Wang Chin-feng
Cinematography	Wang Yung-lung
Edited by	Chiang Hsing-lung Fan Kung-yung
Music by	Chen Yung-Yu
Production company	Shaw Brothers Studio
Distributed by	Shaw Brothers Studio (Hong Kong) Warner Bros. (International)
Release date	April 28, 1972 (1972-04-28) (Hong Kong)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Mandarin
Box office	US$10 million (rentals)

King Boxer (Chinese: Tiān xià dì yī quán, lit. "Number One Fist in the World"), also known as Five Fingers of Death, is a 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Chung Chang-Wha (Korean: 정창화; Hanja: 鄭昌和) and starring Lo Lieh. It was produced by Shaw Brothers (HK) Ltd. (Chinese: 邵氏兄弟（香港）公司), the largest Hong Kong movie production studio at the time. The script was written by Chiang Yang (江陽). Made in Hong Kong, it is one of many kung fu movies with Indonesian-born actor Lo Lieh (羅烈) in the lead. He appeared in many similar martial arts film efforts from the 1960s, pre-dating the more internationally successful Bruce Lee.

Released in the United States by Warner Bros. in March 1973 as Five Fingers of Death, the film capitalized on the success of Warner's TV series Kung Fu^[1] 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 later that year with the first U.S.-Chinese Kung Fu co-production, Enter the Dragon, which was the most successful of the chopsocky films of 1973.^[2]