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19 December 1979 (Hong Kong)
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A plump butcher student of Wong Fei Hung, Lam Sai-Wing (Sammo) gets into trouble with a rival kung-fu...
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Great fun!
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Cast
(in credits order) | Sammo Hung Kam-Bo | ... | Lam Sai-wing / 'Butcher Wing' |
 | Hoi Sang Lee | ... | Master Ko |
| Pai Wei | ... | Chik |
| Yuen Biao | ... | Foon |
| Tak-Hing Kwan | ... | Wong Fei-Hong |
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| Billy Chan | ... | Tai Hoi's man |
| Qiqi Chen | ... | Lan Hsing |
| Kam Chiang | ... | Lam Sai-kwong |
| Fat Chung | ... | Wildcat |
| Mei Sheng Fan | ... | Beggar |
| Ging Man Fung | ... | Chess player |
| Hark-On Fung | ... | Ko Tai-Hoi |
| Pak-Kwong Ho | ... | Blind man |
| Ching-Ying Lam | ... | Killer with Fan |
| Fung Lee | ... | Restaurant worker |
| Gwa-pau Sai | ... | Ah So |
| Jing Tang | ... | Yuet Mei |
| Choh Lam Tsang | ... | Night watchman |
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| Sammo Hung Kam-Bo | |||
| Woo-ping Yuen | |||
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| Dang Geng-san | ||
| Jing Wong | ||
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| Raymond Chow | .... | producer | |
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| Frankie Chan | (as Hsun Chi Chen) | ||
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| Koon-wah Ma | |||
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| Wo Mak | |||
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| Yuen Biao | .... | assistant action choreographer | |
| Yuen Biao | .... | double: martial arts and acrobatics | |
| Billy Chan | .... | assistant action choreographer | |
| Sammo Hung Kam-Bo | .... | action choreographer | |
| Ching-Ying Lam | .... | assistant action choreographer | |
| Chuo-lun Ting | .... | script supervisor | |
| Woo-ping Yuen | .... | action director | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Deltamac Entertainment (2000) (Hong Kong) (DVD)
- Tai Seng Video Marketing (2000) (USA) (VHS)
- Hong Kong Legends (2001) (UK) (DVD)
- 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2003) (USA) (DVD)
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Also Known As:
"Lin Shi Rong" - Hong Kong (original title)
"The Magnificent Butcher" - Hong Kong (English title)
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"The Magnificent Butcher" - Hong Kong (English title)
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Rated PG-13 for violent content
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108 min
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USA:PG-13 | Canada:PG | Canada:G (Quebec) | Singapore:NC-16 | Ireland:18 | UK:18 | Australia:M | South Korea:15
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After Siu-Tien Yuen's death, the script was rewritten. Lee Hoi -San originally played a comic relief character and a different actor played Sammo Hung's brother before the rewrite.See more »
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References "Popeye the Sailor" (1960)See more »
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Bravo, 20th Century Fox, for giving this movie a DVD release in North America! And not only with a gorgeous-looking print, but with the option of watching in the original Cantonese with subtitles, unlike other American distributors (coughcoughmiramaxslashdimensioncoughcough).
I hadn't heard of this particular Sammo Hung movie until tonight, when I spotted it at the video store. I took a chance, and I'm really glad to have done it! Completely entertaining, and never dull for a minute. The fights are "old school", but they are still pretty swift, and the various acrobatics and moves are absolutely amazing. Plenty of comedy as well, pretty low-brow slapstick for the most part, but won't help but bring a smile to your lips several times.
Now, as others have said before, there are some brutal and deadly serious moments, and they will seem out of place to most westerners. But from what I've seen from other Hong Kong movies, this kind of thing isn't that unusual. At the very least, such moments like this just further the ways as to how this movie will be unique to anyone raised on western filmmaking.
Don't think this is the cheap kind of martial arts movie you see on Kung Fu Theater or on public domain video labels - give it a try. You won't be disappointed.