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Duel Of Fists

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Duel Of Fists	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Duel of Fists is a 1971 Shaw Brothers action-drama directed by Chang Cheh, starring Cheh's favorite dual team of actors, David Chiang and Ti Lung, and is part of the long-running series of the Shaws' output featuring the studio's Golden Triangle of actors. The movie - and its sequel - are both filmed overseas, somewhat a rarity for Shaw Brothers at the time, respectively in Thailand and Japan.
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Duel Of Fists / int_174ea6a7	type	The Dutiful Son
Duel Of Fists / int_174ea6a7	comment	The Dutiful Son: Fan Ke is willing to fulfill his dying father's request to seek his half-brother and reunite his family together again, even though he'll have to ditch his career as a successful engineer behind.
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Duel Of Fists / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
Duel Of Fists / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: Chiang Ren's prison breakout from a Bangkok prison early in the film had him strangling a guard, stealing the guard's uniform and strolling his way through a courtyard to a guard tower.
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Duel Of Fists / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
Duel Of Fists / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: Fan Ke and Wen Lieh tosses more than one Yakuza thug out of a few windows of a traditional Japanese-style house, although given the setting, the windows are made of paper, thereby averting the broken glass that comes so often with this trope.
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Duel Of Fists / int_32bf17e0	type	Weaponized Headgear
Duel Of Fists / int_32bf17e0	comment	Weaponized Headgear: While battling Chiang Ren and his mooks, Wen Lieh, being a Badass Biker, uses his helmet as an Improvised Weapon.
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Duel Of Fists / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
Duel Of Fists / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: Fan Ke and Wen Lieh; the former is raised in Hong Kong by his father, a martial artist and elderly wushu expert, but it turns out the father had an affair with a Thai woman twenty-three years ago while in Bangkok, which is the latter. Fan Ke, to fulfill his dying father's wish, travels to Bangkok to seek his brother, with the only clue being that his brother is a kickboxer with a butterfly tattoo.
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Duel Of Fists / int_4668be6f	type	Distinguishing Mark
Duel Of Fists / int_4668be6f	comment	Distinguishing Mark: The only clue Fan Ke has in order to locate his lost half-brother; his brother have the tattoo of a butterfly on his biceps since birth.
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Duel Of Fists / int_4c7e3b7	type	Construction Vehicle Rampage
Duel Of Fists / int_4c7e3b7	comment	Construction Vehicle Rampage: The final battle between Fan Ke, Wen Lieh and their trainees against Katsu and his Yakuza brawlers takes place in a quarry. Late in the fight, Fan Ke and Wen Lieh hijacks to bulldozers and starts using them to crush enemy thugs.
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Duel Of Fists / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Duel Of Fists / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Delivered by Fan Ke to Wen Lieh, after the latter had bested his final opponent, Cannon, on the boxing ring.
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Duel Of Fists / int_637b6123	type	Sickening "Crunch!"
Duel Of Fists / int_637b6123	comment	Sickening "Crunch!": The final battle is finished with Fan Ke defeating Chiang Ren, by stomping his right knee and breaking his leg. With a really audible snapping sound.
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Duel Of Fists / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
Duel Of Fists / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: Chiang Ren, the returning villain of the first film, is introduced breaking out of prison, killing several of Fan Ke's pupils in the wushu academy, and publicly challenges Fan Ke and Wen Lieh to a fight, intending to kill the brothers over his arrest in the previous film. But he gets defeated by the brothers, and the film quickly introduces Katsu, the Yakuza enforcer and new Big Bad.
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Duel Of Fists / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
Duel Of Fists / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: Cannon, the final opponent of Wen Lieh in the boxing ring. Happily beating weaker opponents to a cripple or to their deaths, and then lashing out and threatening to beat up his up his assistants after he himself suffered a humiliating defeat in the hands (or feet) of Wen Lieh.
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Duel Of Fists / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Duel Of Fists / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Fan Ke the cool, level-headed protagonist who works as an engineer when not kicking ass is the blue, and his long-lost brother, the rough and tough kickboxer who talks mostly with his fists is the red.
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Duel Of Fists / int_85ac41e1	type	Grappling-Hook Pistol
Duel Of Fists / int_85ac41e1	comment	Grappling-Hook Pistol: A grappling hook fired by a launcher from one of his subordinates is what allows Chiang Ren to escape his prison while on a guard tower in the opening scene.
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Duel Of Fists / int_86af7ab0	type	Badass Biker
Duel Of Fists / int_86af7ab0	comment	Badass Biker: Wen Lieh, besides being a champion kickboxer and capable fighter, is also a motorcyclist whose preferred mode of transport through the streets of Bangkok is his trusty Honda motorbike. He also constantly carries his motorcycle helmet everywhere he goes.
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Duel Of Fists / int_8a16409a	type	Shovel Strike
Duel Of Fists / int_8a16409a	comment	Shovel Strike: In the construction quarry finale, when Katsu and his mooks starts cheating by drawing knives, Wen Lieh responds by grabbing a shovel. He gets to kill plenty of enemies (with at least one Slashed Throat) with the shovel too, with a lot of gore and blood thrown in.
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Duel Of Fists / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Duel Of Fists / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Cannon, a rough, brutal champion boxer who is prone to Unsportsmanlike Gloating and enjoys dealing crippling, often fatal injuries to his opponents, ends up being brutally defeated by Wen Lieh, and moments later, suddenly ambushed and strangled by Mi-tsai, the younger brother of an earlier challenger Cannon killed in the ring weeks ago, intending to avenge his brother in private.
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Duel Of Fists / int_91560b27	type	Finger Poke of Doom
Duel Of Fists / int_91560b27	comment	Fingerpoke Of Doom: Fan Ke, late into the film, reveals that he had somehow obtained the ability to tear apart wood and flesh simply using finger jabs (Never explained - he Suddenly Always Knew That), effortlessly killing a mook who had wounded his brother by shoving three fingers into the mook's midsection, goring his guts out. At which point the remaining mooks ditches their boss, Chiang Ren, much to Chiang Ren's chagrin.
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Duel Of Fists / int_9da6354b	type	Reality Has No Subtitles
Duel Of Fists / int_9da6354b	comment	Reality Has No Subtitles: None of the dialogue in either film is subtitled, especially in this sequel where Katsu and his underlings often have lengthy conversations in untranslated Japanese, which doesn't matter since it's not relevant to the plot anyway.
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Duel Of Fists / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Duel Of Fists / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Chiang Ren's Number Two, Xu, suffers this fate when Fan Ke smashes his face into an edged corner, leaving the entire right half of his face bloody with his eye especially bruised. In the second movie, he sports an Eyepatch of Power as a result.
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Duel Of Fists / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
Duel Of Fists / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Chiang Ren, having been crippled by Fan Ke in the ending of the previous movie, now walks with a crutch. But he's still as deadly and as murderous as ever, even beating two of Fan Ke's friends - both which are kung fu students - using the crutch as a weapon, and still poses a challenge to Fan Ke and Wen Lieh in their penultimate confrontation.
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Duel Of Fists / int_a8826e1e	type	Giant Mook
Duel Of Fists / int_a8826e1e	comment	Giant Mook: There is a hulking Yaukza enforcer (played by Bolo Yeung) among Katsu's mooks who puts up a slightly harder fight against the brothers, before Fan Ke finally beats him down.
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Duel Of Fists / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Duel Of Fists / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Fan Ke have plenty of moments like this.
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Duel Of Fists / int_b73a2a6f	type	Finger Wag
Duel Of Fists / int_b73a2a6f	comment	Finger Wag: Wen Lieh, when surrounded by numerous of Chiang Ren's henchmen, responds to their threats by wagging his finger at them. Before kicking all the asses of his attackers.
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Duel Of Fists / int_bdddc73e	type	Yakuza
Duel Of Fists / int_bdddc73e	comment	Yakuza: They are the villains in the sequel.
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Duel Of Fists / int_c78d3e08	type	Seppuku
Duel Of Fists / int_c78d3e08	comment	Seppuku: Boss Yamaguchi, the leader to Katsu and the Yakuza's head honcho, often orders this treatment to his underlings who failed him. All of them whom complies, complete with getting decapitated after having their guts disembowelled (although decapitations are all done with a Gory Discretion Shot).
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Duel Of Fists / int_d6618014	type	Last Request
Duel Of Fists / int_d6618014	comment	Last Request: One which kicks off the plot: Fan Ke's father, dying from an unknown disease, divulged to his son that he had an affair with a Thai woman which produced a son, telling Fan Ke to seek the brother he never knew he have and ask for forgiveness on the father's behalf.
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Duel Of Fists / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Duel Of Fists / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: In the final battle, Chiang Ren had surrounded himself with mooks and ordered them to kill Fan Ke and Wen Lieh. While the two brothers held their own reasonably well, a knife-wielding mook managed to slash Wen Lieh's arm, at which point Fan Ke kills said mook by digging out his guts using only four fingers. The remainder of Chiang Ren's underlings quickly flees, leaving Chiang Ren to face the brothers alone.
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Duel Of Fists / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Duel Of Fists / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Fan Ke and Wen Lieh became friends after meeting in the same Thai kickboxing ring on the first day. What a coincidence that they turn out to be half-brothers, the former actively trying to seek the latter, without knowing it until later in the film!
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Duel Of Fists / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
Duel Of Fists / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: Fan Ke and Wen Lieh, upon meeting each other for the first time in the Thai kickboxing arena. And then Fan Ke realized Wen Lieh turns out to be his actual brother.
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Duel Of Fists / int_f482730a	comment	No Peripheral Vision: When Fan Ke and Wen Lieh, having killed off several of Yamaguchi's underlings and hijacked two bulldozers, which they send advancing slowly towards the last two underlings... for some reason, the two underlings never thought of running sideways or in opposite directions, instead only capable of staying on their spot and shouting as they get crushed.
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