Naked Fist

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I ended up owning Naked Fist through my desire to beat Teleport City head honcho Keith in our race to both own as many nude kickboxing movies as possible. I’m not doing too well in this race mind you; my ineptitude at competitiveness has never been more obvious than when, as soon as I got a copy of Naked Fist , I immediately ripped it and sent it to Keith. This despite knowing he has at least 3 nude kickboxing movies I don’t own. I guess my only hope now is that he doesn’t have TNT Jackson , Duel to the Death , Golden Ninja Warrior or any of those Alexander Lo Rei/Godfrey Ho flicks where Alice Tseng fights ninjas while taking a bath. I don’t hold out much hope though; this is Keith we’re talking about. Ninjas in the bath are his bread and butter.
Anyway, boneheaded altruism aside, I tracked down Naked Fist to an ancient British rental VHS on ebay. Martial arts movies (and especially martial arts movies featuring gore and nudity) traditionally had a tough time with British censors, but the tape dated back to the days before the infamous Video Recordings Act. Yes, here was a genuine artefact from the era of the Video Nasty. Back then, if certain MPs and right-wing newspapers were to be believed, all UK schoolchildren were being forced to watch Italian cannibal and zombie films all day before going out to rape kittens and butcher old age pensioners in the streets. So the tape was uncut as far as the sexy and laughably quaint gory bits were concerned. I ripped it to DVD-R and thought nothing more of it.
The film (also known by the alternative title Firecracker ) comes from the king of nude kickboxing movies, Filipino mogul Cirio H. Santiago. Through his partnership with Roger Corman, Santiago gave the world a slew of movies featuring naked kickboxing. Or naked shootouts. Or naked fist fights. Or naked gladiatorial combat. There weren’t many physical activities Cirio didn’t think could be improved by having the female participants naked, and for this I doff my metaphorical cap to him. By the time Naked Fist came around, Santiago had already used the plot at least once before, in TNT Jackson (where Playboy playmate Jeannie Bell has a topless kung fu scene) and would use it again in Angelfist (shampoo heiress Cat Sassoon being the scantily-clad fighter on that occasion).
The opening credits make their appearance at last, with the title card NAKED FIST amusingly plastered over footage of firecrackers designed to evoke the original title of the movie. I assume the change came at the behest of Roger Corman, who rightly assumed that the target audience would be more easily drawn in by ‘naked’ and ‘fist.’ I know I was. All that’s missing is ‘Ninja.’ Bonnie’s disappearance leads to the arrival in town of her sister Suzanne (Jillian Kesner). She’s barely checked into her hotel when a couple of hoods break into her hotel and attack her. This is a scene that pops up in both TNT Jackson and Angelfist , though not quite so early in the film. Perhaps that’s why Suzanne isn’t yet quite as naked as Jeannie Bell or Cat Sassoon, since the producers are saving that for later. It’s never established (or even mentioned again) whether these two goons are working for the bad guys, or are just random robber/rapists. Maybe Fox News is right and this happens to all pretty white American women the second they arrive in a foreign country.
Meanwhile, Erik is indulging in his other business, drugs. I assume it’s drugs anyway, it’s only ever referred to as ‘the stuff.’ Maybe it’s actually The Stuff , who knows? Erik’s contact for the buy is Griff, played by Cirio Santago stalwart Vic Diaz. Erik’s girl Malow (local star Chanda Romero) doesn’t like Griff, and thinks Erik would be better dealing directly with the suppliers. Erik apparently agrees, and secretly has Chuck’s men ambush Griff and make off with ‘the stuff.’ Erik then demands another shipment.
Having seen Erik’s set-up, Suzanne goes along to one of the death matches. She’s somewhat freaked out by what she sees and leaves. As she walks home a couple more local thugs take an interest, and after they kill the most incompetent cop in all of the Philippines, Susanne is forced to defend herself in an abandoned warehouse. Her dress gets ripped, so she takes it off, and spends some time running around in bra and panties. What’s cute about this scene (except for Jillian Kesner in skimpy underwear) is that she’s actually kind of badass, taunting the goons and doing that kung fu ‘come here and fight’ hand gesture at them. She takes out the first thug, but then the second guy attacks her with a sickle. Wouldn’t you know it; this manages to slice precisely through the front of her bra. Even though the garment stays pretty much where it is (as front-fastening bras are wont to do), Susanne takes it off anyway before finishing off the second thug. Maybe it was warm in there or something. The fight is only slightly marred by the score, which sounds like a B-52s cover band butchering “Rock Lobster” in their garage.
Malow thinks Erik is getting suspicious so she meets Tony at the bar, and reveals the big exchange of ‘the stuff’ is that night. She also tells Tony that she’s discovered Chuck killed Bonnie. Unfortunately Suzanne overhears this, and calls Erik, demanding to fight in the Arena of Death that night. Meanwhile Erik’s men have followed Malow to the bar and in the ensuing shootout, both Malow and the serving girl are killed. I think the latter is supposed to be Rey’s girlfriend or sister or something, because he also heads for Erik’s gym to take revenge. Now that Erik has the suppliers of ‘the stuff’ in a face-to-face meeting, he orders Chuck to kill Griff. Once he’s dispatched, Chuck is challenged to meet Suzanne in the Arena. Just then the cops show up, so as Suzanne fights to avenge her sister, Tony and Rey take down Erik’s operation. Chuck doesn’t want to fight but Suzanne is adamant, and after he passes up several chances to kill her, she drives her arnis sticks into his incredibly fake prosthetic head.
I don’t know much about Jillian Kesner but apparently she did have a martial arts background. It’s hard to tell how much on the basis of this movie – certainly I’ve seen actresses with less training perform better in fights than Kesner does here – but apart from a few scenes where she’s doubled for acrobatic stuff, she appears to do most of the action herself. Darby Hinton also has some game, though Rey Malonzo is obviously the most talented fighter in the cast. But what of the scenes that only appeared in the TV edit, I hear you cry? Well, the first one takes place on the boat back from the island training camp. Chuck reveals to Suzanne that he doesn’t particularly like killing, but that’s pretty much all he can do. Later in the film, the other scene has Suzanne at Chuck’s apartment while he gets drunk, and tells her he wants to get out of the life of violence he’s in. Neither moment advances the plot much, but they are quite nice in terms of the sympathy they add to Chuck’s character. They also tie in to the climax of the movie, where Chuck doesn’t kill Suzanne when he has the chance. It’s a level of ambiguity one doesn’t expect from a cheap-ass Filipino action film.
Naked Fist has been MIA on DVD up until now, though I hear that Shout! Factory are planning to release it as part of their Roger Corman’s Cult Classics series (in a set with TNT Jackson no less). I’m very curious to see if this will feature these two scenes, either as an extra or in the movie itself. I’m also hoping for some background material on this fun little flick. Of course what I’d really like is a commentary by Jillian Kesner and Cirio Santiago, but sadly this is never to be. Kesner died young in 2007 from complications relating to leukaemia, while Santiago succumbed to lung cancer in 2008. So I guess the story of Naked Fist , and those curious disappearing scenes, may never be told.
Release Year: 1981 | Country: USA/Philippines | Starring: Jillian Kesner, Darby Hinton, Ken Metcalfe, Peter Cooper, Vic Diaz, Tony Ferrer, Don Gordon Bell, Rey Malonzo, Chanda Romero | Screenplay: Ken Metcalfe, Cirio H. Santiago, Alan Holzman | Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Cinematography: Benjamin L. Lobo, Ricardo Remias | Music: Nonong Buencamino, Susan Justin | Producers: Syed Kechik, Ernie Rojas, Cirio H. Santiago | Original title: Firecracker
The action may indeed be bad, but there's a lot of it. Like Melissa Moore and Cat Sassoon, all this movie wants to do is entertain you. And like its stars, the results are pretty feeble even if the effort is enthusiastic.
Hot on the heels of Chuck Norris' The Octagon came Golan and Globus with 1981's Enter the Ninja, the film that really kicked the trend into high gear and gave the world Sho Kosugi.
It's not Chuck's fault that fashion in the late 1970s was so abysmal. Luckily for him, cowboy fashion has been the same pretty much since the 1800's, so at least he isn't strutting around in all those plaid flares Sonny Chiba had a tendency to don.

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