Se ying diu sau (1978)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Woo-ping Yuen

Writers:

Chi Yuan Hsi (writer)
Huo An Hsi (writer)

Release Date:

November 1982 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy

Plot:

Jackie Chan is a boy who is used as a janitor at his kung-fu school. Jackie Chan can't fight and is always getting bullied by the teachers and pupils...

Plot Keywords:

Martial Arts | Fighting | Kung Fu Kid | Kung Fu Comedy | Kung Fu Classic

Cast

Jackie Chan	...	Chien Fu (as Lung Cheng)
Siu Tien Yuen	...	Grandmaster Pai Cheng-Tien (as Hsiao-Tien Yuan)
Jang Lee Hwang	...	Lord Sheng Kuan (as Cheng-Li Huang)
Dean Shek	...	Teacher Li (as Tien Shih)
Roy Horan	...	Russian
Hark-On Fung	...	Snake Fist School Master
Lung Chan	...	Substitute Instructor
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yao Lin Chen	...	Master Hung (Hung Wei School)
Kam Chiang	...	Ah Kwai, Magistrate's son
Hsia Chien
Chi Ling Chiu
Hsia Hsu	...	Su Chen
Chen Tien Loong	...	Three Provinces Champ
Chiang Wang

Also Known As:

Bruce vs. Snake in Eagle's Shadow
Eagle's Shadow (USA) (reissue title)
She xing diao shou (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Snake and the Eagle's Shadow (Philippines: English title)
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (Hong Kong: English title)

Runtime:

98 min | Argentina:97 min | Germany:90 min | UK:92 min | USA:90 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 (cut) | Singapore:PG | Australia:M | South Korea:12 (DVD rating) | Argentina:13 | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG

Company:

Seasonal Film Corporation

Trivia:

Like most movies released in Hong Kong during that time, its original soundtrack is dubbed in Mandarin, not Cantonese. The Cantonese soundtrack was dubbed years later when Cantonese became the predominant language used in the Hong Kong movies in the 1980s.

Quotes:

Grandmaster Pai Cheng-Cheh: What a bitch. I hope she drops dead.

Movie Connections:

Edited into Snake in the Eagle's Shadow II (1979)

"Snake Bites!!!"

I´ll try to summary this movie. Orphan (Jackie Chan) is being mistreated by evil Kun fu-Club owner on the club in which he is a cleaner. He meets an old beggar who learns him "snake style" -kun fu. The old man is being hunted down for knowledge of the martial art. Check this movie out. If you like Jackie-Chan, then you will love this movie. I give it a 10/10.