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Release Date:
June 29, 1974
Original Title:
朋友
Alternate Titles:
Peng you
Genres:
Action | Drama
Production Companies:
Shaw Brothers
Production Countries:
Hong Kong
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 104
Hua Heng is a poverty-stricken aspiring painter whose day job involves painting the ads that go up on the sides of buildings. He and his buddies hang out in a makeshift gym set up in an abandoned building where they train and practice kung fu. His girlfriend is Gao Xin, a bar maid who is in debt to loan sharks. Into their lives comes Jiaji, who happens upon Hua Heng in a street fight with local thugs who'd made fun of the painting he's carrying and decides to help him out.
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Art Direction:
Johnson Tsao Chuang-Sheng
Costume Design:
Li Chi
Director:
Chang Cheh
Director of Photography:
Kung Mu-To
Editor:
Kwok Ting-Hung
Original Music Composer:
Joseph Koo
Chang Cheh
Frankie Chan Fan-Kei
Producer:
Run Run Shaw
Sound:
Wang Yong-Hua
Writer:
Chang Cheh
Ni Kuang
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