Dance of the Drunken Mantis (1979)
"Nan bei zui quan" (original title)

A year after training young Jackie Chan in the Drunken Fist, Sam the Seed discovers he has a son, Foggy. He tries to train Foggy but to no avail. Foggy is then trained in Drunken Fist from ... See full summary »

Director:

Woo-ping Yuen

Writers:

Lung Hsiao, See-Yuen Ng

Stars:

Siu Tien Yuen, Jang Lee Hwang, Linda Lin

Cast

Credited cast:
Siu Tien Yuen	...	Sam the Seed
Jang Lee Hwang	...	Rubber Legs
Linda Lin	...	Sam's Wife
Shun-Yee Yuen	...	Foggy
Corey Yuen	...	Rubber Legs' student (as Yuen Kwai)
Dean Shek	...	Moneybags (as Charlie Shek)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yuet Sang Chin
Ho Chiu Kei
Fa Yuan Li
David Wu	...	Pickpocket
Shi-Kwan Yen	...	Sickness Master
Brandy Yuen	...	Fake Sam Seed
Mo Yuen

Storyline

A year after training young Jackie Chan in the Drunken Fist, Sam the Seed discovers he has a son, Foggy. He tries to train Foggy but to no avail. Foggy is then trained in Drunken Fist from his uncle as he must face his father's rival, Rubber Legs, another Drunken Fist master who combines it with Mantis Fist to create a deadly style.

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Plot Keywords:

physical comedy | cult film | martial arts | kung fu comedy | kung fu | 

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Genres:

Action | Comedy

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Details

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese Mandarin

Release Date:

27 June 1979 (Hong Kong)

Also Known As:

Drunken Master Part 2

Company Credits

Production Co:

Seasonal Film Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Spun-off from Drunken Master (1978)

User Reviews

The Drunken Master himself returns for an encore

In DANCE OF THE DRUNK MANTIS (1979), Simon Yuen returns in the role of Sam Seed, specialist in Drunken Kung Fu and the title character in the Jackie Chan hit, DRUNKEN MASTER (1978), directed by Simon's son, Yuen Wo Ping, who also directed this film. Here Sam has a wife (Lynda Lin), who has adopted a grown son, Foggy (Yuen Shun Yi, aka Sonny Yuen, another son of Simon), during Sam's absence. When Foggy first meets Sam in the street, he gets into a hassle with him only to learn at home that the old man is his adoptive father. High-kicking Hwang Jang Lee plays Rubberlegs, who arrives from the north to fight Sam and prove the superiority of his own Drunken Mantis style. Rubberlegs and Sam have a lengthy fighting/drinking contest.

After a lot of tiresome scenes in town, including an overlong encounter with banker Moneybags, played by comic actor Dean Shek, the action shifts to the countryside where Foggy trains under Sick Doctor (who sleeps in a coffin and is made up like a corpse) and learns Sickness Boxing. The training scenes are quite exciting and lead up to Foggy's fight with Rubberlegs' chief student (played by Yuen Kwei, aka Corey Yuen, an action director in his own right). Foggy then joins Sam for a lengthy battle with Rubberlegs.

The film's onscreen subtitle (in the English dubbed print) is DRUNKEN MASTER, PART 2. This is not to be confused with Jackie Chan's l994 sequel, DRUNKEN MASTER II (released in the U.S. in 2000 as LEGEND OF DRUNKEN MASTER). This isn't one of Yuen Wo Ping's best films, but it does provide a good showcase for Simon Yuen and Hwang Jang Lee and offers some gimmicky kung fu with humor, a specialty of director Yuen during this period (1978-83) of his career.