MPAA: PG-13
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artists kung-fu humor comedy father hilarious fighting slapstick martial-arts teacher china boxing action funny choreography
Drunken Master (1978)
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Jackie Chan. The troublesome son of a martial arts master must learn the art of Drunken Boxing" when he loses a fight with an assassin hired to kill his father. Directed by Yuen Wo Ping. In Cantonese with English audio & subtitles. 1978/color/111 min/NR/widescreen. Amazon.com Though it wasn't Jackie Chan's first film, Drunken Master is the film that cemented his stardom. Jackie plays the rebellious son of a kung fu master. To teach Jackie the value of discipline, his father apprentices him to another master named So Hi, who has a unique "drunken" fighting style. Jackie chafes at So Hi's rigorous exercises and runs away--only to be brutally humiliated at the hands of a hired killer named Thunderleg. Chastened, Jackie becomes So Hi's devoted student. He soon discovers he will need everything he's learned when Thunderleg is hired to kill his father. In Drunken Master, Jackie is only beginning to cultivate his mixture of action and comedy; here the emphasis is on kung fu acrobatics. But the kung fu is astounding. The final fight is dizzying and amazingly choreographed by director Yuen Woo-ping (now famous as the fight choreographer for The Matrix). --Bret Fetzer Actors: Jackie Chan, Siu Tien Yuen, Jang Lee Hwang, Siu Hung Cham, Tien Lung Chen Directors: Woo-ping Yuen Writers: Woo-ping Yuen, See-Yuen Ng, Lung Hsiao Producers: See-Yuen Ng |
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