Drunken Master (1978) Hong Kong
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Director:Woo-ping Yuen
Studio:Sony Pictures
Writer:Edward Tang, Man-Ming Tong
Rating:4.0 (52 votes)
Rated:R
Date Added:2006-03-18
ASIN:B00005YUNV
UPC:043396083905
Price:$14.94
Genre:Foreign
Release:2002-04-02
IMDb:0111512
Duration:102
Picture Format:Letterbox
Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
Sound:MPEG-1 2.0
Languages:German
Subtitles:English
Comments: He's got a secret weapon with a lot of kick.

Summary: Though it wasn't Jackie Chan's first film, "Drunken Master" is the film that cemented his stardom. Jackie plays the rebellious son of a kung fu master. To teach Jackie the value of discipline, his father apprentices him to another master named So Hi, who has a unique "drunken" fighting style. Jackie chafes at So Hi's rigorous exercises and runs away--only to be brutally humiliated at the hands of a hired killer named Thunderleg. Chastened, Jackie becomes So Hi's devoted student. He soon discovers he will need everything he's learned when Thunderleg is hired to kill his father. In "Drunken Master", Jackie is only beginning to cultivate his mixture of action and comedy; here the emphasis is on kung fu acrobatics. But the kung fu is astounding. The final fight is dizzying and amazingly choreographed by director Yuen Woo-ping (now famous as the fight choreographer for "The Matrix"). "--Bret Fetzer"