Jackie Chan, Siu Tien Yuen, Jang Lee Hwang

An undisciplined boy must learn Drunken Fist Kung Fu in order to stop an assassin.

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R, 90 min.

Directed by: Woo-ping Yuen

Release Date: January 1, 1978

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DVD Release Date: April 2, 2002

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  • October 15, 2009
    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...( read more)? What Jackie did was introduce slapstick into the Kung Fu formula, the rest as they say is history.

    Jackie stars as Freddy Wong aka (Wong Fei Hung) 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.
  • June 5, 2009
    The arrogant son of a martial arts master is packed off to study under an aging beggar who needs booze like Popeye needs spinach. Drunken Master was the film that broke Jackie Chan into the popular consciousness and is the perfect vehicle for his particular brand of energetic kun...( read more)g fu and comedy. The plot firmly takes a back seat for this film, but whereas many of this type are po-faced fight scenes interspersed with clumsy slapstick, this one marries the two brilliantly. The best of the action involves the drunken master himself, a kind of cross between Mr Miyagi and Barney Gumble, and there are lot of laughs in his faux drunken acrobatics. Stephen Chow has obviously carried on very successfully in this tradition and anyone one who enjoys kung fu movies or cheering for the underdog while having a few chuckles along the way, this ranks amongst Chan's best.
  • February 22, 2009
    The one and only! Funny and priceless!! the great comedy of a legendary chinese hero!



    Wong Fei Hong is a lazy, good for nothing bum of a son who is a total embarassment to his father. So his father decides to send him away to his great Uncle for disciplining and hard t...( read more)raining. At first, Fei Hong refuses to, hearing that his Uncle is a sadistic task master and takes obvious delight in toruturing his students. But when he observes the old man's fighting ability and the secrest of drunken kung fu, the old man decides to make him his apprentice and teach him about drunken boxing and taking responsibility.
  • August 17, 2008
    Fun regardless of being a bit dated, all the parts with the master are great.
  • March 29, 2008
    Jackie Chan's second starring role is probably one of his funniest and the kung fu sequences are amazingly technical.
  • October 24, 2009
    don't remember much about it, but i know its kewl and awesome, other wise i wouldn't have it lolz
  • October 23, 2009
    Jackie Chan learns drunken Kung Fu from a wine-guzzliing master in order to fight properly against the evil assassin Yan Ti San. Amazingly tightly choreographed fight sequences (you can watch it for these alone) and very very silly.
  • September 26, 2009
    LIKED THE STORY OF THE REMAKE BETTER, BUT STILL A CLASSIC IN MY BOOK.
  • September 10, 2009
    jackie chan at his best.. great martial arts
  • August 13, 2009
    Jacky chan ....
    Need to describe more ?

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