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Drunken Arts and Crippled Fist

Original title: Guai quan xiao zi
  • 1979
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 20m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
110
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Drunken Arts and Crippled Fist (1979)
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A wealthy man sends his young son away to learn Kung Fu from the drunken master. When he returns he gets involved in a fight between a local thug, who employs various fighters to do away wit... Read allA wealthy man sends his young son away to learn Kung Fu from the drunken master. When he returns he gets involved in a fight between a local thug, who employs various fighters to do away with the boy and his father and take control of the local area.A wealthy man sends his young son away to learn Kung Fu from the drunken master. When he returns he gets involved in a fight between a local thug, who employs various fighters to do away with the boy and his father and take control of the local area.

  • Director
    • Tang Ti
  • Stars
    • Siu-Tin Yuen
    • Yi-Min Li
    • Tien-Hsiang Lung
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
    110
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Tang Ti
    • Stars
      • Siu-Tin Yuen
      • Yi-Min Li
      • Tien-Hsiang Lung
    • 2User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Siu-Tin Yuen
    Siu-Tin Yuen
      Yi-Min Li
      Yi-Min Li
      • Hsiao Hu
      Tien-Hsiang Lung
      Tien-Hsiang Lung
      • Chow Tao Hai
      • (as Lung Tien-Shiang)
      Lo Lieh
      Lo Lieh
        Hsiao-Fen Chang
        • Hsiao Yen
        • (as Chang Hsiao Fan)
        Chi-Ping Chang
        Chi-Ping Chang
        Kuan-Lung Chang
        • (Guest star)
        Man Huang
        Man Huang
          Chang-Sheng Ko
          Hsiao Ming Li
          Wen-Tai Li
          Wen-Tai Li
            Ching-Shun Mao
              Li-Pao Ou
              Lan Sun
              Lan Sun
              Tang Ti
                Chi-Sheng Wang
                Chi-Sheng Wang
                Yu Wang
                Ping-Ou Wei
                Ping-Ou Wei
                • Master Hu
                • (as Yue Ping Au)
                • Director
                  • Tang Ti
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                6ckormos1

                Average low budget martial arts movie for fans only

                Apparently child abuse was once legal and that was in 1979. Simon Yuen tortures a child in the first scenes and he grows up to be Li Yi- Min. He is a martial arts expert so he cannot fight anyone to the disappointment of his father. Many over-acting stunt men want to fight him. He also meets a kung fu chick, Chang Hsiao-Fan, in her only movie. Then he meets a real master and gets soundly beaten. He goes back to Simon Yuen with the girl. Simon cannot teach him the cripple fist because he is not a cripple yet Simon knows it and is not a cripple. Maybe something is lost in the translation.

                Li Yi-Min has excellent acrobatic skills. The final fight certainly demonstrated them.

                Lo Lieh? I blinked and missed him.

                Simon's martial arts scenes are all stunt doubled and when he is facing the camera and doing a few moves they are slow and feeble. He was a great martial artist and movie favorite but in the end time always wins.

                Wei Pin-Ao has an unforgettable face and has been in over 100 movies of many genres. I have never found much about his biography other than while acting with Bruce Lee they became close friends. This movie is probably the only one where he has fight scenes and they are comedic of course.

                This sort of thing is only suitable for fans of the genre who take pleasure in a low budget average kung fu movie from the 1970s.

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                • Release date
                  • 1979 (Hong Kong)
                • Country of origin
                  • Hong Kong
                • Languages
                  • Cantonese
                  • Mandarin
                • Also known as
                  • Saufbold und Raufbold
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                • Runtime
                  1 hour 20 minutes
                • Color
                  • Color
                • Sound mix
                  • Mono
                • Aspect ratio
                  • 2.35 : 1

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