Drunken Master
Drunken Master is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts comedy film directed by Yuen Woo-ping, and starring Jackie Chan, Yuen Siu-tien, and Hwang Jang-lee. It was a success at the Hong Kong box office, earning two and a half times the amount of Yuen's and Chan's previous film, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, which was also considered a hit.
Plot
Wong Fei-hung (sometimes dubbed as "Freddie Wong") is a young and mischievous son, who runs into a series of troubles. Firstly, he teaches an overbearing assistant martial arts teacher a lesson, and later makes advances on a woman to impress his friends, and is soundly thrashed by her older female guardian as a result; his shame is compounded when these two are later revealed to be his visiting aunt and cousin, whom he had not met before. Lastly, he beats up a hooligan, who turns out to be the son of an influential man in town. His father decides to punish him for his behavior by making him train harder in martial arts. Wong's father arranges for Beggar So to train his son in martial arts.
More details
author | Lung Hsiao Ng See-yuen |
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contentLocation | Guangdong |
director | Yuen Woo-ping |
editor | Pan Hsiung |
genre | action comedy |
keywords | attempt to escape beggar so box devil drunken master drunken miss ho eight immortals fighting style immortal woman he injured shadow the eight drunken immortals train wong fei-hung xian |
producer | Ng See-yuen |
publisher | Seasonal Film Corporation |
theme | action comedy kung fu martial arts slapstick |