Drunken Master; 1978 HK

Jackie Chan plays Wong Fei-hung, (character from old Cantonese films and recently in Tsui Hark's Once Upon a Time in China -serie) who after having disgraced the family name two times in one morning, been send by his father to Fei Hung´s uncle, Sam Seed to whip him into shape. Sam has namely a reputation of crippling his students. After Fei Hung have tried to escape several times he becomes Sam´s martial arts prisoner and the torture training begins. In a last desperate attempt Fei Hung finally manage to escape Sam. He then meets a hired killer (Hwang Jang lee) who beats him unconscious and humiliates him. He then return to Sam to learn the drunken style. This is the second collabration between director Yuen Woo Ping and Jackie Chan was another huge box-office hit, it made Jackie Chan really famous. It is a Kung Fu comedy which was a very big hit all over Asia. It contains great fighting scenes and even beat Snake in the Eagle´s Shadow with a HK$8,000,000 in its first run.

Standard Mandarin Romanization Title:
     Zui Quan
Language:
     Cantonese
Also Known As:
     Drunken Monkey In The Tiger's Eye
     Story of Drunken Master, The
Finnish title:
     Kotkan Kynnet
Running Time:
     106 min
Genre: Kung Fu
     Seasonal Films, 1978
Cast:
     Jackie Chan .... Wong Fei-hung 
                     (Naughty Panther)
     Yuen Siu Tien .... Sou Fa-zai 
                     (Sam the Seed)
     Hwang Jang Lee .... Thunderfoot
     Hsu Hsia
     Lin Ying
     Michelle Khan .... Wong Fei-hong's aunt
Directed by:
     Yuen Woo Ping
Produced by:
     Ng See Yuen
Action:
     Yuen Woo Ping
     Hsu Hsia
Sceenplay:
     Jackie Chan

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