Shui quan guai zhao (1979)

Director:

Wing-Cho Yip

Writer:

Hsin Yi Chang (screenplay)

Stars:

Ka-Yan Leung, Siu Tien Yuen, Ling-lung Ouyang

Cast

Credited cast:
Ka-Yan Leung
Siu Tien Yuen
Ling-lung Ouyang
I Lung Huang
Lan Sun
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kuo Chung Ching
Fu Hsiao
Eddy Ko
Han Lo
Chin Ku Ma
Li-pao Ou
Ting-Ken Shih
Kwai Shui
Hsiao Fu Weng

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

kidnapping | rescue | martial arts | kung fu | gangster

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Genres:

Action

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Details

Country:

Hong Kong Taiwan

Language:

Mandarin Cantonese

Release Date:

24 May 1979 (Hong Kong)

Also Known As:

The Roaring Kung-Fu Fighter

Company Credits

Production Co:

East Asia Film Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

User Reviews

a real snooze

a real disappointment. this is the team that gave us very strong "Thundering Mantis". which ends with one of the most unsettling fight scenes on record (one of the corpses gets eaten!). added to the team this time around is Yuen patriarch and drunken master Simon Yuen; and it's fairly clear that this was intended for inclusion in the series that would have developed around Simon Yuen's character from the original Chan film of Drunken Master (Sam the Seed), had it not been cut short by Yuen's death. Nonetheless, this is clearly Sam the Seed Yuen is playing here, and the so-called 'sleeping fist' is a drunken boxing style variant.

One would think that if you took the energetic cast of Thundering Mantis and added elements of Drunken Master via a supporting role for Simon Yeun, we would get a grand film with odd bits of straight comedy, as well as magnificently choreographed fight scenes. well, think again.

For one thing, the Thundering Mantis cast reunited here doesn't seem particularly interested in the material; so of course they're not performing with their usual skill and energy. Then there's the child-actor - he was also in Thundering Mantis, where he played a crucial role as victim of the bad-guys. I don't know what he's doing here, since all he does is mimic Simon Yuen and perform unnecessary double-jointed body contortions.

All this leads up to the realization that the reason they named it "sleeping fist" is because long before anybody throws a punch, we've nodded off from boredom.