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Duel of Fists

Two men, one a businessman skilled in Kung Fu, the other a kickboxer discover they are brothers, and together, both in and out of the ring, they must face a crime syndicate. One of the first films to use the martial art of Muay Thai.

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Release : 1971
Rating : 6.1
Studio : Shaw Brothers, 
Crew : Art Direction,  Director of Photography, 
Cast : Ti Lung David Chiang Da-Wei Ching Li Chan Sing Ku Feng
Genre : Action

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Reviews

CheerupSilver
2018/08/30

Very Cool!!!

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Huievest
2018/08/30

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

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ThrillMessage
2018/08/30

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

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Kaelan Mccaffrey
2018/08/30

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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Leofwine_draca
2017/10/22

DUEL OF FISTS is a contemporary Shaw Brothers thriller that once again teams the 'iron triangle' of director Chang Cheh with stars Ti Lung and David Chiang. The two actors play estranged brothers; Chiang comes to Thailand to discover his long lost brother only to find him making a living in the ring as a Thai boxer. The plot is complicated by the interventions of various corrupt characters who are willing to commit murder both in and outside of the ring in order to make themselves very rich.This is very much a lesser Chang Cheh film but not without merit. The running time is a little overlong and padded out with a bit too much travelogue footage while the likes of Ching Li are wasted in the obligatory romantic sub-plots. Ti Lung convinces as the Thai boxer but doesn't have a great deal to do, although a super-skinny David Chiang lights up the screen with his powerful kicks and punches. The villains are well-ranged and include the typically snarling Chen Sing, Ku Feng as a rival Thai boxer, and various bit-parting future greats including Yuen Woo-ping, Phillip Ko, and Fung Hark-on. The story continues in a sequel called THE ANGRY GUEST, which is very much on par with this film.

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poe426
2013/01/29

Because I've grown enamored of Chang Cheh's period films featuring stars like Ti Lung and David Chiang, DUEL OF FISTS was high up on my list of movies to see. Until I actually saw it, I had no idea that it was set in a "contemporary" setting (like BLACK MAGIC and BLACK MAGIC II, both of which made both Ti Lung and Lo Lieh look very bad). Worst of all has to be David Chiang: as already pointed out here, the '70s-wear makes the slightly-built Chiang look positively dainty (and the flaming red ensemble and purse he sports at film's end must be seen to be appreciated). DUEL OF FISTS is slow, with a clichéd storyline that adds nothing new (or even remotely interesting) to the martial arts movie genre, and the Muay Thai bouts are instantly forgettable (like Western boxing, Muay Thai fights are nigh impossible to pull off believably and the numerous "slapping punches" we see here are about as convincing as something in a "professional wrestling" match).

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qatmom
2006/05/19

...until you've seen the distractingly dreadful clothes somebody thought David Chiang should wear in this movie. I remember this period, and clothes were never ever this gaud-awful yucky. I thought the white stetson hat was bad (sure, everyone in Hong Kong who was kewel wore 'em in the early 1970s, sure...) until I saw...the red stetson hat.There really should be a museum exhibit somewhere (if only online and virtual) dedicated to the truly unbelievable stuff Chiang wore in some of these movies (how did he manage to keep a straight face wearing this stuff, anyway??? I imagine crowds of giggling people pointing at what he's wearing, just out of camera range...) There really isn't whole lot to this movie except bad clothes on David and violent fight scenes. Not much else goes on. I'm a big fan of the Ti Lung/David Chiang period martial arts movies, and unfortunately, this movie just doesn't have any of the charm of those despite being written and directed by the same people.

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Brian Camp
2001/05/15

DUEL OF FISTS (1971) is a contemporary kung fu thriller shot in Bangkok during the city's Water Festival. (The early scenes are essentially a Bangkok travelogue.) David Chiang plays a Hong Kong man looking for his long-lost brother, armed only with a childhood photo of him (in which the youth already has his distinctive anchor tattoo!). The brother, played by Ti Lung, is a boxer facing his toughest opponent, Killer, who came by that name honestly. David attends the match and recognizes his brother and roots for him. Ti Lung is supposed to take a dive but he winds up beating Killer and winning the fight, spurring the local mob to send armies of thugs after him and David.Ti Lung is a good fighter and acquits himself well, particularly in the boxing scenes. David, on the other hand, is very skinny here and dresses in an array of garish late 1960s eyesore fashions-puffy sleeves, ascots, flowered pants and a floppy hat. Yet we're supposed to believe he can outfight dozens of tough thugs armed with knives and clubs without getting a scratch. Ti Lung is more believable, except when we consider that his biggest fights with the thugs come right after his grueling, exhausting match with Killer, just when he'd be weakest. The fights are well-staged, but the superhuman feats in such a contemporary setting are a bit hard to swallow. The sequel, THE ANGRY GUEST (1972), which takes the brothers to Japan, is much better.This was one of a group of early collaborations between stars David Chiang and Ti Lung and director Chang Cheh for Hong Kong's Shaw Bros. studio. Also that year (1971), the trio did the far superior DUEL OF THE IRON FIST, aka DUEL OF THE SHAOLIN FIST, about gang warfare in early 20th century China, and the near-epic THE NEW ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN, a masterful swordplay adventure set in old China.

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