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Jui kuen (1978) -- Jackie Chan showcases his comedic talents as an obstinate and cocky young man who’s sent to learn at the feet of his uncle, a harsh, wine guzzling, kung fu master. Can he learn the drunken fists style in time to fend off an assassin pursuing his dad?

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Hsiao Lung (writer)
See-Yuen Ng (writer)
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Release Date:
5 October 1978 (Hong Kong) more
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An undisciplined boy must learn Drunken Fist Kung Fu in order to stop an assassin. full summary | add synopsis
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not only lives up to legend, it creates it more (51 total)

Cast

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Jackie Chan ... Wong Fei-Hung (as Jacky Chan)
Siu Tien Yuen ... Su Hua Chi / Sam Seed
Jang Lee Hwang ... Thunderleg
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tien Lung Chen ... Bully
Ching Chiang
Ging Man Fung ... Mr. Li
Hsia Hsu ... King of Bamboo
Chiao Lin
Linda Lin ... Fei-hung's aunt
Ying Li
Dean Shek ... Professor Kai-Hsien
Fu Tsan Shih
Kien Shih
Han Chen Wang
Casanova Wong
Pan Pan Yeung
Brandy Yuen
Shun-Yee Yuen ... Chen Kuo-Wei
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Drunken Master (International: English title) (video title) (UK) (USA)
Challenge (India: English title)
Drunken Fist (Hong Kong: Mandarin title) (literal title)
Drunken Monkey in the Tiger's Eyes (Hong Kong: English title)
Eagle Claw, Snake Fist, Cat's Paw, Part 2
The Drunken Master (Philippines: English title)
Zui quan (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
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Rated PG-13 for martial arts violence and language.
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111 min
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Certification:
Australia:M | South Korea:12 | UK:12 (video rating) (2007) | UK:15 (video rating) (1986) | West Germany:16 (heavily cut) | UK:X (original rating) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Singapore:PG | USA:PG-13 (re-rating) | USA:R (original rating)

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For many of the more athletic sequences, the 66-year-old Siu Tien Yuen was doubled by his sons, Cheung-Yan Yuen and director Woo-ping Yuen. more
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Revealing mistakes: After Won Fei Hung is beaten by Thunderleg and offered Beggar Su some wine, he drops the bowl, and Su catches it. If you slow-mo the DVD, for a split second you can see that the bowl goes past Su's foot, which is coming up to catch it. The film then cuts to a shot where the bowl is on Su's foot. more
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Spoofed in Augustin, roi du Kung-fu (1999) more

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not only lives up to legend, it creates it, 29 June 2006
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Author: (winner55) from United States

It is said that this is the film that made Jackie Chan a star, but that isn't really true, since Snake in Eagle's Shadow actually had a bigger impact at the time, and allowed Chan to make this film. One way we know this is that there are some two dozen films made in the late '70s- early'80's designed to imitate Snake in Eagle's Shadow, and only a couple imitate this film. By the time Drunken Master had become legendary world-wide, the chop-socky cycle (to which it still belongs, to an extent) had passed into history, and Chan himself had abandoned historical 'fu films for contemporary comedy-thrillers.

It should be noted that the idea of making a film based on the early years of Wong Fei Hong was not original to Chan; at roughly the same time this film was being made, well-known martial arts choreographer Liu Chia Leung made a straight (non-comic) version of the story (without drunken boxing) over at Shaw Brothers, Challenge of the Masters, with Gordon Liu as Wong Fei Hung.

The defining moment for the Chan-Yuen version of the film is the use of Drunken Boxing. There is no real evidence that the historical Wong Fei Hung was a master of this style; his more famous innovations involved the development of the shadowless hand technique and the no-shadow kick. Interestingly, in order to highlight Chan's use of Drunken Boxing, these other two techniques, better identified with Wong, are assigned in the film to the villain, "Thunderlegs" played by Hwang Jen Lee.

At any rate, it would not be clear that one could consider this a Wong Fei Hung film at all - if it weren't for the fact that this film effectively redefined the Wong legend, so that it has since become pro-forma to assume that Wong was a bit wild in his youth. (Just to set that record straight, Wong was actually extremely studious, and recognized as a real child-prodigy in the martial arts, winning his first major public duel at the age of thirteen.) Drunken Master is solid martial arts entertainment. There are decided weaknesses in the plot and over-all staging of the film, but these can easily be ignored, as the film thrusts us along with kung fu and comedy to the grand final fight at the end. It must also be noted that these characters - even the villain - are well acted and quite likable and familiar, and thus add a credibility to the film. And Yuen's direction is also very professional and a couple notches above the average for a Hong Kong genre film of the time.

Lives up to its own legend, and well-worth the viewing.

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