Fei Lung gwoh gong (1978)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Sammo Hung Kam-Bo

Writer:

Kuang Ni (writer)

Release Date:

January 1984 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Martial Arts | Kung Fu | Fighting

Cast

Billy Chan	...	Thug / Action Movie Fighter
Wah Cheung
Roy Chiao	...	Chiu
Ngai Hung Chik
Yuet Sang Chin
Fat Chung	...	Fighter in Opening Credit Sequence
Feng Feng
Ging Man Fung
Hark-On Fung	...	Gene
Sammo Hung Kam-Bo	...	Lung
Ching-Ying Lam	...	Action Movie Fighter
Meg Lam
Hoi San Lee
Hoi-sook Lee
King Chu Lee
Ka-Yan Leung	...	Bearded Fighter
Tony Leung Siu Hung
Ling Ling
Ke Ming Lin
Hoi Mang	...	Fighter in Opening Credit Sequence
Mars	...	Fighter in Opening Credit Sequence
Yung-sheng Pan		(as Yun Sang Baan)
Gwa-pau Sai
Eric Tsang	...	Party Host's Son
Ha Wong		(as Wong Ha)
Ji Keung Wong
Kwan Yeung	...	Professor Bak (as Peter K. Yang)
Wai Yeung
Biao Yuen	...	Fighter in Opening Credit Sequence

Also Known As:

Enter the Fat Dragon (Hong Kong: English title)
Fei Long guo jiang (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)

Runtime:

USA:100 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R

Company:

H.K. Fong Ming Motion Picture Company

Trivia:

The Asian actor dressed up as the black American fighter towards the end of the movie is a parody of Hollywood's casting during that time. Hollywood often cast white people to play Asians, so they cast an Asian man to play a black American.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Robot Chicken: S&M Present (#1.9)" (2005)

Sammo is the Fat Dragon!

This is of of Sammo's great early comedy films. This isn't a parody of enter the dragon, the main character (Sammo) is obsessed with Bruce Lee and emulates him freakishly well for a man of his size. Nominal story about how his fighting keeps causing his loved ones trouble - then fighting. Oh, the fighting. Good, fast-paced scenes with high impact (the white guy who plays a boxer looks like he really gets hurt by one of Sammo's kicks).

The funniest bit of this movie was purely unintentional. There is a Jim Kelly looking guy (one of three experts hired to take out Sammo), but he was a Chinese guy in blackface with an afro-wig. Come on, didn't they have any real black people in Hong Kong in 1978? Well, I guess I've seen enough white fake-as-hell "Chinese people" in old American movies too.

This is one is for any Sammo or Bruce Lee fan.