Director: Ulysses Au-Yeung
Jun
Notable Cast: Mang
Fei, Maggie Li Lin-Lin, Pai Hung, Wong Ching, Kurata Yasuaki, Sun Lan, Tung
Choi-Bo, Sze-Ma Wah-Lung
Also known as: Kung Fu
Punch of Death, Kick of Death, Fong Sai-Yuk
Previously we covered two other films by director Ulysses Au-Yeung
Jun, the very entertaining double feature of Secret of the Shaolin Poles and Shaolin
Drunken Monk. Both were surprising successes in terms of entertainment and
quality, so the director quickly made it on my short list to find more of his
work. Thus, we start here with The
Prodigal Boxer. Starring Mang Fei, who was also the star of Secret of the Shaolin Poles which is
often released in the US as The Prodigal
Boxer 3 for marketing, the film follows him as the folk hero Fong Sai-yuk
whose youthful nature gets him caught in the crosshairs of two brothers of a
rival school, played by Wong Ching and the legendary Kurata Yasuaki.