Tang Lang dou ji gong (1982)
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- 1h 28min
- Action, Adventure
- 1984 (USA)
- Movie
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Cast
Yen-Fei Chin |
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Hua-Chung Ting | ... |
Hsiao
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Fei Lung | ... |
Tin Hai Lu
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Ching-Shun Mao | ... |
Noodle Vendor
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You-Min Ko | ... |
Master Sher
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Chung-You Chang |
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Ching Cheng |
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San-Yang Chi |
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Hsueh-Chun Chiang |
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King-Hua Fang |
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San-Yang Ji |
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Kuang-Yung Lin |
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Wan-Chang Lin |
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Chang Ma |
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Kuo-Liang Su |
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Chung-Chiu Tsai | ... |
(as Chung Chiu Tsai)
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Chen-Wen Tse |
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Li-Peng Wan |
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Ting Wo Wang |
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Peng-Sheng Yu |
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Directed by
Ching-Chiang Kuo |
Written by
Hsiang Mei Lin | ... | (writer) |
Ji-Shang Lu | ... | (writer) (as Chi-Shang Lu) |
Produced by
Li-Chung Chen | ... | supervising producer |
Hsiang Mei Lin | ... | producer |
Music by
Fu-Liang Chou |
Cinematography by
Hsi-Lu Chen |
Editing by
Hung-Min Chen | ||
Hung Choi | ... | (as Hsiung Tsai) |
Costume Design by
Chi-Yi Li |
Makeup Department
Mei-Yun Chen | ... | makeup artist |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jen-Chieh Chang | ... | supervising director (as Chieh Chang) |
Chen-Fu Tsai | ... | assistant director |
Art Department
Yi-Lai Pan | ... | props |
Sound Department
Hua Chang | ... | sound recordist |
Su-Jan Hsi | ... | sound effects editor |
Stunts
Lung Chan | ... | action coordinator |
Kuang-Yung Lin | ... | action coordinator |
Kuo-Liang Su | ... | action coordinator |
Camera and Electrical Department
Kuang-chen Hsu | ... | lighting technician |
Wen-Chen Hsu | ... | lighting |
Yan-Pei Huang | ... | set lighting |
Script and Continuity Department
Kuo-Chen Kan | ... | script supervisor |
Tung-Lo Mou | ... | continuity |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Unifilm International Company (1984) (United States) (theatrical)
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Storyline
Plot Summary |
Hsiao Hai (Wa Chung Ting) works as a servant for wealthy businessman Tin Hai Lu (Fei Lung). Constantly bullied and abused in the marketplace, Hsiao finds himself taken under the personal tutelage of his boss, a skilled master of Chicken style kung-fu. Master Lu hopes that his young employee may one day provide backup muscle for his ongoing business struggles with a rival tong. Meanwhile, gawky split-toothed Hsiao continues to spend much of his free time at the farmers market trying to develop a relationship with the local noodle vendor (Ging-shun Mau) and his lovely daughter Ho Hwa (Yin-fei Kam). Hsiao clumsily romances the fiery-tempered Ho, who strongly rebukes his advances. Hsiao then stops a group of marketplace rowdies in a mischievous slapstick fight that admirably displays the acrobatic finesses of his new Chicken style technique. Master Lu rewards him with a promotion. Ho Hwa promptly informs Hsiao that his boss is not the upstanding citizen that he pretends and, again, she ridicules his flirtations, citing as "stupid" his bashful awkwardness and the pugilistic ineptitude of his showy shenanigans. She then proceeds to wallop the tar out of him with kung-fu techniques he has never before seen. Soon Hsiao discovers that Ho Hwa was right: His master's great wealth was actually acquired from illegal tax collections. Hsiao secretly begins to return the money to the people. Now master Lu and his followers spring their long-awaited trap, wiping out the rival tong with master Lu himself disposing of nemesis master Sher (O Yau-ma) using the Chicken style's signature backward-pecking elbow strikes. During the melee, master Lu's men also rumble with and rout Ho Hwa and her father. Afterward, father and daughter pack up and leave unannounced. They now realize that their kung-fu is simply no match for master Lu. Ho Hwa's mother had been murdered by Lu and she and her father quietly want revenge. For Hsiao, on the other hand, despite being well-treated, chasing off Ho and her father is the last straw. He has enough of master Lu's underhanded ways. Hsiao turns on his own tong and joins Ho and her father in the country which, of course, softens Ho's heart. Advanced kung-fu training now begin with Hsiao learning the Mantis style from the noodle vendor while Ho brushes up on her Eagle Claw. Together, they use Hsiao's knowledge of the Chicken style to invent a technique for confronting it. Master Lu eventually uncovers Hsiao's Robin Hood rebates to the people from his personal treasury. He quickly locates their hideout and the fighters face off for the final confrontation: Hsiao's acrobatics versus Lu's strategic movement. Ho Hwa keeps the gang at bay with her own acrobatic flips and graceful spinning high kicks followed in a blink by a low spinning sickle kick that floors her opponents. And master Lu struts his stuff with awesome power. But the tide of battle only turns to victory when Hsiao lets loose a mesmerizing stream of spinning aerial kicks that overwhelm the Chicken style's backward-pecking elbow strikes. Written by Neva Friedenn |
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