1978 was a great year for kung fu films. First came "The 36th Chamber of Shaolin," featuring the greatest and most detailed martial arts training sequence in cinema to date. Then came "The Seven Deadly Venoms," the beginning of a popular series directed by master of sadomasochistic revenge thrillers Chang Cheh. And then there was "Drunken Master." Released in October of that year, the film was neither an earnest tale of self-improvement like "36th Chamber," nor a rock-beats-scissors festival of violence like "Seven Deadly Venoms." It was a comedy, reinterpreting the Cantonese folk hero Wong Fei-hung as a young lout who learns to harness alcohol as...
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