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* CoolHat: Fan Ke and his white cap that he wears in most of his scenes in Bangkok. And in the last scene when he's returning to Hong Kong with Wen Lieh, he dons a red brimmed hat.
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Fan Ke (Chiang) is a successful engineer and also the prized student of a martial arts school owned by his father, but one day his father, old in age and dying from a disease, divulged to Fan Ke while on his deathbed that Fan actually has a half-brother born from an affair with a Thai woman twenty three years ago. The only evidence of the half-brother's existence is an old, black-and-white photo taken from the brother's childhood and the knowledge that the brother is currently a kickboxer in Bangkok; Fan Ke, eager to fulfil his father's last wish, decide to travel overseas in order to seek the brother he never knew he have. Along the way, Fan gets into trouble with the local Thai mob led by their boss, Chiang Nan, while befriending Wen Lieh (Ti Lung), a Chinese-Thai half breed who happens to be one of the best kickboxers. Could they be related?...
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The movie spawned a sequel a year later, ''The Angry Guest''. Having acknowledged each other as brothers, Wen Lieh decides to return to Hong Kong with Fan Ke to train at the martial arts school belonging to his biological father and half-brother. But the Thai mob boss, Chiang Nan, had escaped from prison and intends to seek his revenge by stalking the brothers all the way to Hong Kong, just as the two bash brothers found themselves dragged into a plot involving the Yakuza. They must travel to Tokyo and set things straight.
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The movie spawned a sequel a year later, ''The Angry Guest''. Having acknowledged each other as brothers, Wen Lieh decides to return to Hong Kong with Fan Ke to train at the martial arts school belonging to his late biological father and half-brother. But the Thai mob boss, Chiang Nan, had escaped from prison and intends to seek his revenge by stalking the brothers all the way to Hong Kong, just as the two bash brothers found themselves dragged into a plot involving the Yakuza. They must travel to Tokyo and set things straight.
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* AssholeVictim: Cannon, a rough, brutal champion boxer who is prone to UnsportsmanlikeGloating 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 Sai, 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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* AssholeVictim: Cannon, a rough, brutal champion boxer who is prone to UnsportsmanlikeGloating 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 Sai, 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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* LastRequest: One which kicks off the plot: Fan Ke's father, dying from an unknown diesease, 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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* LastRequest: One which kicks off the plot: Fan Ke's father, dying from an unknown diesease, 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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[[caption-width-right:350:Not the first time the Shaws' favorite BashBrothers played actual brothers. [[note]] see ''Film/Vengeance1970'' for an earlier example [[/note]] ]]
''Duel of Fists'' is a 1971 Creator/ShawBrothers action-drama directed by Chang Cheh, starring Cheh's favorite dual team of actors, Creator/DavidChiang and Creator/TiLung, 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.
Fan Ke (Chiang) is a successful engineer and also the prized student of a martial arts school owned by his father, but one day his father, old in age and dying from a disease, divulged to Fan Ke while on his deathbed that Fan actually has a half-brother born from an affair with a Thai woman twenty three years ago. The only evidence of the half-brother's existence is an old, black-and-white photo taken from the brother's childhood and the knowledge that the brother is currently a kickboxer in Bangkok; Fan Ke, eager to fulfil his father's last wish, decide to travel overseas in order to seek the brother he never knew he have. Along the way, Fan gets into trouble with the local Thai mob led by their boss, Chiang Nan, while befriending Wen Lieh (Ti Lung), a Chinese-Thai half breed who happens to be one of the best kickboxers. Could they be related?...
[[CaptainObviousReveal Well, duh]]. But obviously, [[SarcasmMode NOBODY saw that plot twist coming]].
The movie spawned a sequel a year later, ''The Angry Guest''. Having acknowledged each other as brothers, Wen Lieh decides to return to Hong Kong with Fan Ke to train at the martial arts school belonging to his biological father and half-brother. But the Thai mob boss, Chiang Nan, had escaped from prison and intends to seek his revenge by stalking the brothers all the way to Hong Kong, just as the two bash brothers found themselves dragged into a plot involving the Yakuza. They must travel to Tokyo and set things straight.
Co-stars Creator/YasuakiKurata as Katsu, a dangerous Yakuza enforcer and main villain, who will co-star alongisde David Chiang in a few other movies, including ''Film/FourRiders'' and ''Film/ReturnOfTheDeadlyBlade''.
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!!Tropes found in ''Duel of Fists''
* AssholeVictim: Cannon, a rough, brutal champion boxer who is prone to UnsportsmanlikeGloating 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 Sai, the younger brother of an earlier challenger Cannon killed in the ring weeks ago, intending to avenge his brother in private.
* BadassBiker: 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.
* BashBrothers: 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.
* ContrivedCoincidence: 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!
* CoolHat: Fan Ke and his white cap that he wears in most of his scenes in Bangkok. And in the last scene when he's returning to Hong Kong with Wen Lieh, he dons a red brimmed hat.
* DeadpanSnarker: Fan Ke have plenty of moments like this.
--> '''Fan Ke''' (after being threatened to have his guts spilled) : "You'll find my guts to be quite colourful if you do that."
* DistinguishingMark: 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.
* TheDutifulSon: 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.
* EyeScream: Chiang Ren's NumberTwo, 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 EyepatchOfPower as a result.
* FingerpokeOfDoom: 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 SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat), 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.
* FingerWag: 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.
* LastRequest: One which kicks off the plot: Fan Ke's father, dying from an unknown diesease, 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.
* LongLostRelative: 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.
* RedOniBlueOni: 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.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: 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.
* SickeningCrunch: 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.
* SoreLoser: 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.
* WeaponizedHeadgear: While battling Chiang Ren and his mooks, Wen Lieh, being a BadassBiker, uses his helmet as an ImprovisedWeapon.
* WhamLine: Delivered by Fan Ke to Wen Lieh, after the latter had bested his final opponent, Cannon, on the boxing ring.
--> '''Fan Ke''': "I'm your brother!"
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!!Tropes found in ''Duel of Fists 2: The Angry Guest''
* ConstructionVehicleRampage: 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.
* DestinationDefenestration: 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.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: 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 BigBad.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: 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.
* GiantMook: 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.
* GrapplingHookPistol: 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.
* HandicappedBadass: 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.
* NoPeripheralVision: 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.
* RealityHasNoSubtitles: 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.
* {{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 [[OffWithHisHead getting decapitated after having their guts disembowelled]] (although decapitations are all done with a GoryDiscretionShot).
* ShovelStrike: 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 SlashedThroat) with the shovel too, with a lot of gore and blood thrown in.
* {{Yakuza}}: They are the villains in the sequel.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Not the first time the Shaws' favorite BashBrothers played actual brothers. [[note]] see ''Film/Vengeance1970'' for an earlier example [[/note]] ]]
''Duel of Fists'' is a 1971 Creator/ShawBrothers action-drama directed by Chang Cheh, starring Cheh's favorite dual team of actors, Creator/DavidChiang and Creator/TiLung, 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.
Fan Ke (Chiang) is a successful engineer and also the prized student of a martial arts school owned by his father, but one day his father, old in age and dying from a disease, divulged to Fan Ke while on his deathbed that Fan actually has a half-brother born from an affair with a Thai woman twenty three years ago. The only evidence of the half-brother's existence is an old, black-and-white photo taken from the brother's childhood and the knowledge that the brother is currently a kickboxer in Bangkok; Fan Ke, eager to fulfil his father's last wish, decide to travel overseas in order to seek the brother he never knew he have. Along the way, Fan gets into trouble with the local Thai mob led by their boss, Chiang Nan, while befriending Wen Lieh (Ti Lung), a Chinese-Thai half breed who happens to be one of the best kickboxers. Could they be related?...
[[CaptainObviousReveal Well, duh]]. But obviously, [[SarcasmMode NOBODY saw that plot twist coming]].
The movie spawned a sequel a year later, ''The Angry Guest''. Having acknowledged each other as brothers, Wen Lieh decides to return to Hong Kong with Fan Ke to train at the martial arts school belonging to his biological father and half-brother. But the Thai mob boss, Chiang Nan, had escaped from prison and intends to seek his revenge by stalking the brothers all the way to Hong Kong, just as the two bash brothers found themselves dragged into a plot involving the Yakuza. They must travel to Tokyo and set things straight.
Co-stars Creator/YasuakiKurata as Katsu, a dangerous Yakuza enforcer and main villain, who will co-star alongisde David Chiang in a few other movies, including ''Film/FourRiders'' and ''Film/ReturnOfTheDeadlyBlade''.
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!!Tropes found in ''Duel of Fists''
* AssholeVictim: Cannon, a rough, brutal champion boxer who is prone to UnsportsmanlikeGloating 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 Sai, the younger brother of an earlier challenger Cannon killed in the ring weeks ago, intending to avenge his brother in private.
* BadassBiker: 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.
* BashBrothers: 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.
* ContrivedCoincidence: 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!
* CoolHat: Fan Ke and his white cap that he wears in most of his scenes in Bangkok. And in the last scene when he's returning to Hong Kong with Wen Lieh, he dons a red brimmed hat.
* DeadpanSnarker: Fan Ke have plenty of moments like this.
--> '''Fan Ke''' (after being threatened to have his guts spilled) : "You'll find my guts to be quite colourful if you do that."
* DistinguishingMark: 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.
* TheDutifulSon: 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.
* EyeScream: Chiang Ren's NumberTwo, 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 EyepatchOfPower as a result.
* FingerpokeOfDoom: 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 SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat), 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.
* FingerWag: 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.
* LastRequest: One which kicks off the plot: Fan Ke's father, dying from an unknown diesease, 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.
* LongLostRelative: 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.
* RedOniBlueOni: 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.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: 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.
* SickeningCrunch: 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.
* SoreLoser: 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.
* WeaponizedHeadgear: While battling Chiang Ren and his mooks, Wen Lieh, being a BadassBiker, uses his helmet as an ImprovisedWeapon.
* WhamLine: Delivered by Fan Ke to Wen Lieh, after the latter had bested his final opponent, Cannon, on the boxing ring.
--> '''Fan Ke''': "I'm your brother!"
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!!Tropes found in ''Duel of Fists 2: The Angry Guest''
* ConstructionVehicleRampage: 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.
* DestinationDefenestration: 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.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: 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 BigBad.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: 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.
* GiantMook: 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.
* GrapplingHookPistol: 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.
* HandicappedBadass: 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.
* NoPeripheralVision: 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.
* RealityHasNoSubtitles: 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.
* {{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 [[OffWithHisHead getting decapitated after having their guts disembowelled]] (although decapitations are all done with a GoryDiscretionShot).
* ShovelStrike: 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 SlashedThroat) with the shovel too, with a lot of gore and blood thrown in.
* {{Yakuza}}: They are the villains in the sequel.
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