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Overview

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Director:
Jackie Chan
Writers:
Jackie Chan (writer)
Tin-Chi Lau (writer)
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Release Date:
9 February 1980 (Hong Kong) more
Genre:
Action | Comedy more
Plot:
After failing his fellow students in a Lion Dance competition, Dragon (Jackie Chan) is sent away from his school in disgrace... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Two thumbs up, and snatching your eyes out like a Master! more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Jackie Chan ... Dragon
Biao Yuen ... Sang Kung's Son / Fourth Brother
Pai Wei ... Tiger
Lily Li ... Sang Kung's Daughter
Kien Shih ... Sang Kung
Ing-Sik Whang ... Kam (as Whong In Sik)
Hark-On Fung ... Kam's Bodyguard #1 (as Ke An Feng)
Hoi San Lee ... Kam's Bodyguard #2 (as Li Hai Sheng)
Feng Tien ... Master
Feng Feng ... Ah Suk
Mei Sheng Fan ... Bull (as Mei-Sheng Fan)
Yan Tsan Tang ... Ah Tsang (as Yim Chan Tang)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Siu Hung Cham
David Cheng
Kang-Yeh Cheng
Wah Cheung
Kam Chiang
Chiang Chou
Benny Lai
Kim Hung Lai
Fa Yuan Li
Chih Hung Ling
Ke Ming Lin
Ying Lung
Mars
Gwa-pau Sai
Tau Wan Yue
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
See dai chut ma (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
The Young Master (Hong Kong: English title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for martial arts violence.
Runtime:
Finland:90 min | Hong Kong:101 min
Country:
Hong Kong
Language:
Cantonese
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Germany:16 (original rating) (cut) | Germany:16 (re-rating) (uncut) | Iceland:16 | France:Unrated | South Korea:15 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Hong Kong:I | Norway:15 (video premiere) | Spain:T | UK:15 | USA:PG-13

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The fan-fighting scene required 329 takes to complete. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in The Best of the Martial Arts Films (1990) more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Two thumbs up, and snatching your eyes out like a Master!, 14 May 2007
9/10
Author: Thomas Hardcastle from United Kingdom

This film made me into a proper fan of Chan. What a wonderfully choreographed film.

The fights took months and months to perfect, and you can tell. Some of the action literally took my breath away.

The film's comedy borders on the Shakespearean, with mistaken identity, circumstance, and chance encounters blending to form the backbone of a superbly conceived storyline.

The sole criticism I have of the movie, is that you don't realise it is a comedy until about half an hour into it. Up to that point, it takes itself a tad too seriously, and even tries to strum the heart strings with a weepy scene where Chan thanks his Master for looking after him since he was found as a street orphan in childhood. When you get past all that, however, you're looking at possibly the greatest action film of all time.

The classical fighting style in Chan's movies took a back seat after this, with the advent of movies like Project A and Police Story. Chan returned to this style with Young Master in Love (Dragon Lord) a couple of years later, but that was more of a sports movie than a kung-fu fest.

In 1994, Jackie released Legend of Drunken Master, which followed in the same vain as Drunken Master (1979), and in many ways was superior. It's just such a shame that, "Jackie don't make 'em like he used to....."

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