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Drunken Master

Original title: Zui quan
  • 19781978
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 51m
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7.4/10
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Jackie Chan, Dean Shek, and Siu-Tin Yuen in Drunken Master (1978)
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Wong Fei-Hung is a mischievous yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents his frustrated father has him disciplined by a master of drunken martial arts.Wong Fei-Hung is a mischievous yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents his frustrated father has him disciplined by a master of drunken martial arts.Wong Fei-Hung is a mischievous yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents his frustrated father has him disciplined by a master of drunken martial arts.
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
40K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
7,961
19
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    • Director
      • Woo-Ping Yuen
    • Writers
      • Lung Hsiao
      • See-Yuen Ng
    • Stars
      • Jackie Chan
      • Siu-Tin Yuen
      • Jeong-lee Hwang
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Woo-Ping Yuen
    • Writers
      • Lung Hsiao
      • See-Yuen Ng
    • Stars
      • Jackie Chan
      • Siu-Tin Yuen
      • Jeong-lee Hwang
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    • 86User reviews
    • 84Critic reviews
    • 68Metascore

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    Jackie Chan
    Jackie Chan
    • Wong Fei-Hung
    • (as Jacky Chan)
    Siu-Tin Yuen
    Siu-Tin Yuen
    • Beggar So
    • (as Yuen Hsiao Tien)
    Jeong-lee Hwang
    Jeong-lee Hwang
    • Jim Ti-Sam
    • (as Huang Cheng Li)
    Dean Shek
    Dean Shek
    • Ko Choi
    • (as Shih Tien)
    Kau Lam
    Kau Lam
    • Wong Kei-Ying
    • (as Chiao Lin)
    Linda Lin
    Linda Lin
    • Fei-Hung's Aunt
    Tino Wong
    Tino Wong
    • Bully
    • (as Chiang Wang)
    Hsia Hsu
    Hsia Hsu
    • Ceoi King-Tin
    Chiu-Jun Lee
    Chiu-Jun Lee
      Han Chen Wang
      Han Chen Wang
      • Restaurant Boss
      Kwai Shan
      Kwai Shan
      • Iron Head Rat
      • (as Yung Liu)
      Chin Chiang
      • Da Kuai-Dai
      Shun-Yee Yuen
      • Chen Kuo-Wei
      Ging-Man Fung
      Ging-Man Fung
      • Li Wan-Hao
      Hui Tsai
      Hui Tsai
      Shao-Hung Chan
      Shao-Hung Chan
      Tin-Shing Ho
      • Ying's Student
      Ha Huang
      Ha Huang
      • Master Chao
      • Director
        • Woo-Ping Yuen
      • Writers
        • Lung Hsiao
        • See-Yuen Ng
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      • Trivia
        Jackie Chan (Wong Fei-Hung) nearly lost an eye when Jang Lee Hwang (Jim Ti-Sam) kicked him in the head during the final fight scene. When Hwang became aware of this, he refused to do more takes for the shot.
      • Goofs
        The wire enabling Beggar So to pull Fei-Hung underneath the table at the restaurant.
      • Quotes

        Jim Ti-Sam: I'll break every bone in your body... and send you to hell.

      • Alternate versions
        German version was cut by approximately 20 minutes.
      • Connections
        Featured in The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Jackie Chan (1989)

      User reviews86

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      Jackie Chan's finest hour
      This for me is Jackie Chan's finest, and is the film which propelled him to super stardom in Hong Kong. Whilst other martial artists were trying to be the new Bruce Lee, Jackie did something different. Why replace the irreplaceable when you could do something completely different? What Jackie did was introduce slapstick into the Kung Fu formula, the rest as they say is history.

      Jackie stars as Freddy Wong aka (Fong Sai Yuk) depending upon which dub you watch. A juvenile delinquent with a penchant for feeling up immediate female members of his family. His father, fed up of his delinquency hires Sam Seed aka The Drunken Master to teach him some discipline as well as his secret fighting style. Naturally the two get off on the wrong foot but learn to respect each other as the film goes on whilst of course getting into the obligatory scrapes and japes. There is of course a villain of the piece in this case its the Tae Kwan Do master Hwang Jan Lee as the underworld assassin "Thunderfoot" who in real life was just as badass as he is in the film.

      So it's all pretty derivative then? Well yes and no. There is a genuine rapport between Jackie and Yu Su Tien as pupil and teacher. The martial arts is brilliantly choreographed and inventive (the scene in the restaurant is probably my favourite) and the whole thing has a "joie de vivre". Watching it, it seems to me that the actors had a ball making the film. Which is just as well as I had a ball watching it.
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      • Release date
        • October 5, 1978 (Hong Kong)
      • Country of origin
        • Hong Kong
      • Languages
        • Cantonese
        • English
        • Mandarin
      • Also known as
        • Tráfico de arte
      • Filming locations
        • Jardim de Lou Lim Ioc - 10 Estrada de Adolfo de Loureiro, Sao Lazaro, Macau, China
      • Production companies
        • Golden Harvest Company
        • Seasonal Film Corporation
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 51 minutes
      • Color
        • Color
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 2.39 : 1

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