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1978 Hong Kong film

Drunken Master
Original Hong Kong motion-picture show poster

Traditional	醉拳
Cantonese	Zeoi³ Kyun⁴

Directed by	Yuen Woo-ping
Written past	Siao Lung Ng Run across-yuen
Produced past	Ng See-yuen
Starring	Jackie Chan Yuen Siu-tien Hwang Jang-lee Dean Shek
Cinematography	Chang Hui
Edited by	Pan Hsiung
Music by	Chow Fu-liang
Distributed past	Seasonal Film Corporation
Release appointment	5 October 1978 (1978-ten-05)
Running fourth dimension	110 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box part	The states$16.five one thousand thousand (est.)

Drunken Master (Chinese: 醉拳; lit. 'drunken fist') is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts comedy motion picture directed by Yuen Woo-ping, and starring Jackie Chan, Yuen Siu-tien, and Hwang Jang-lee.^[one] It was a success at the Hong Kong box office, earning two and a half times the corporeality of Yuen's and Chan's previous film, Ophidian in the Eagle's Shadow, which was besides considered a hit.^[2] ^[three]

It is an early milestone of the kung fu comedy genre, and helped make Jackie Chan famous in Asia. The film popularised the Zui Quan ("drunken fist") infused with unique animal fighting manner. In 2017, it was ranked number 3 on GamesRadar'south list of l greatest kung fu movies of all time.^[4] It spawned an official sequel, Drunken Master 2 (1994), and several spin-offs. It had a significant cultural impact, inspiring numerous subsequently films, music, manga, anime and video games.

Background

The film's protagonist Wong Fei-hung was a Chinese martial artist, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and a revolutionary who lived towards the stop of the Qing Dynasty. He became a Chinese folk hero and the subject of several Hong Kong television programmes and films. Ragamuffin So, who plays a supporting role in the film, is besides another character from Chinese folklore and 1 of the Ten Tigers of Canton. The Ragamuffin So graphic symbol is often cast as an associate of Wong Fei-hung or Wong'south uncle.

Plot

The plot centers on a immature and mischievous Wong Fei-hung (sometimes dubbed as "Freddie Wong"). Wong runs into a series of troubles. Firstly, he teaches an overbearing assistant martial arts instructor a lesson. Next, he makes advances on a woman to impress his friends, and is soundly thrashed past her older female guardian equally a result; his shame is compounded when these two are later revealed to be his visiting aunt and cousin, whom he had not met before. Lastly, he beats upwards a hooligan who turns out to exist the son of an influential human in town. His father decides to punish him for his behavior by making him train harder in martial arts.

Wong'southward begetter arranges for Beggar So to train his son in martial arts. Ragamuffin So has a reputation for crippling his students during training so Wong flees from home in an endeavor to escape his punishment. Penniless, he stops at a restaurant and tries to con a fellow patron into offering him a gratuitous repast. As he was near to leave after his meal, he discovers that the man is actually the owner of the restaurant. He fights with the possessor'southward lackeys in an endeavour to escape. An old drunk nearby is drawn into the fight and helps him escape. The drunkard turns out to be Beggar So, the Drunken Master. (Ragamuffin So is known in some versions of the film as Sam Seed, So Hi or Su Hua-chi)

Beggar So forces Wong into his vicious and rigorous preparation program. Wong flees again to avoid the torturous training and runs into the notorious killer Yim Tit-sam (known in some versions as Thunderfoot or Thunderleg) by accident. Yim is known for his "Devil's Kick", a swift and deadly kicking mode which has never been defeated. Wong provokes and challenges him to a fight and is soundly defeated and humiliated. He makes his manner back to Beggar So and decides to commit himself to the Drunken Master'south training program.

The training resumes and soon Wong learns Beggar So's secret style of martial arts, a form of Drunken Boxing called "The Viii Drunken Immortals", named after the 8 xian that the fighting way references. Wong masters seven of the viii styles with the exception of Drunken Miss Ho's equally he feels that her style of fighting is also feminine.

Meanwhile, Yim Tit-sam is contracted by a business rival to kill Wong'due south father. Wong's father fights with Yim and is defeated and injured past him. Wong and Beggar So go far on the scene on time and Wong continues the fight with Yim. Ragamuffin So promises not to interfere in the fight. Wong employs the new skills he has learned and outmatches Yim's kicking mode. Yim then resorts to his secret technique, the Devil's Shadowless Hand, which is besides fast for Wong to defeat. Wong confesses that he did not master the final style then Beggar So tells him to combine the vii styles and create his own version of the last mode. Wong follows the instruction and discovers his own unique style of Drunken Miss Ho, which he uses to overcome the Shadowless Hand and finally defeat Yim.

Cast

Jackie Chan as Wong Fei-hung / Freddy Wong (UK version)
Yuen Siu-Tin (or Simon Yuen) as Beggar And so / Sam Seed
Hwang Jang-lee as Thunderleg Yen Necktie Hsin / Thunderfoot
Dean Shek every bit Professor Kai-Hsin
Lam Kau as Wong Kei-Ying / Robert Wong (U.k. version)
Fung King-man as Mr. Lee Man-ho
Hsu Hsia equally King of Bamboo Hsu Ching-tien
Linda Lin as Wong Fei-hung'due south aunt
Yuen Shun-yi as Chan Kwok-wai / Charlie Wei
Tong Jing equally Wong Fei-hung's cousin
Tino Wong every bit Jerry Lee
Yuen Woo-Ping every bit Man with bucket of greens

Fight scenes and martial arts

A number of notable fights are featured in the flick, almost all of them with strong elements of one-act—from the game of Proceed Away with Wong Kei-ying'due south self, only incompetent, assistant kung fu instructor, to the novel "caput-fu" fighting style used by ane of his opponents. The motion picture features the Hung Ga system of fighting, which was historically skilful by Wong Fei-hung and his father Wong Kei-ying, both of whom are major characters in the film. The creature styles of Ophidian, Crane, and Tiger performed in the picture are derived wholly from the Hung Ga system and behave only a tangential relationship to the Fujian White Crane, Lama Pai (Tibetan White Crane), Blackness Tiger, and Serpent systems of kung fu. Monkey fashion kung fu, popular in Southern Chinese martial arts performances, is also shown briefly.

Numerous systems of kung fu include "Drunken Boxing" forms (eastward.grand. Choi Lei Fut and Drunken Monkey), and the Taoist Viii Immortals are popular staples of Chinese culture and fine art. However, the "Eight Drunken Immortals" forms depicted in this film are likely the creation of manager and choreographer Yuen Woo-ping and based on routines establish in other systems.

The primary villain in Drunken Master is played by Hwang Jang-lee, a Korean martial artist specialising in Taekwondo and known for his loftier-flying kicks, which are prominently displayed in the film. The systems of "Devil's Kick" and "Devil'due south Shadowless Hands" employed by Thunderleg are entirely fictitious.

According to his book I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action, Chan nearly lost an eye subsequently his brow ridge was injured.^[5] ^[6]

Theme song

The theme song of Drunken Master is based on a Chinese folk song, "Under the General's Orders". Since Drunken Chief, the theme song has been popularly associated with the folk hero Wong Fei-hung, who Jackie Chan plays in the moving picture. Information technology was later used in the 1983 moving picture Winners and Sinners, starring Sammo Hung; information technology was played in a market scene whilst the V Lucky Stars are watching ii men demonstrating the beneficial effects of their medicines and their martial arts stances, in reference to Wong Fei-hung. "Under the General'due south Orders" afterwards become the chief theme vocal for the Once Upon a Time in Mainland china series starring Jet Li, who likewise plays Wong Fei-hung.

Box function

At the Hong Kong box role, Drunken Master earned an impressive HK$6,763,793^[ii] (U.s.$1,445,255).^[7] It was the 2nd near popular moving picture in Hong Kong in 1978 behind the Hui brothers' The Contract and third on the all-fourth dimension list.^[viii] ^[9]

In Nihon, where it released on 21 July 1979, it became one of the year's height ten highest-grossing films, earning ¥1.ix billion ^[x] (The states$8.7 1000000).^[11] In Republic of korea, it was the highest-grossing film of 1979, with 898,561 box admissions in Seoul City,^[12] equivalent to an estimated ₩1,347,842,000^[thirteen] (US$ii,784,800).^[14] The film also bankrupt records in Malaysia and Singapore.^[8]

In Germany, where it was released as Sie nannten ihn Knochenbrecher ("They Called Him Os Breaker") on 25 July 1980, information technology was the 41st highest-grossing film of the year, selling 584,312 tickets,^[15] equivalent to an estimated €one,460,780^[xvi] (U.s.$two,063,606).^[17] In Espana, the motion-picture show sold 823,203 tickets,^[xviii] equivalent to an estimated €i,070,164^[16] (United states of america$one,489,989).

Combined, the pic grossed an estimated total of approximately United states of america$xvi,483,650 (equivalent to $68,000,000 in 2021) in East Asia and Europe.

Sequels and spinoffs

Drunken Chief II (1994) stars Jackie Chan, and is considered the only official sequel. Chan portrays the aforementioned graphic symbol, Wong Fei-hung. The Usa release of the film in 2000 was entitled The Legend of Drunken Primary.
In 1979, Yuen Siu-Tin reprised the role of Ragamuffin So in the picture show Dance of the Drunk Mantis, which is entitled Drunken Master Role ii (not to exist confused with Drunken Master II noted to a higher place) in some releases. The film, which was again directed by his son, Yuen Woo-Ping, does not feature Jackie Chan, focusing instead on the drunken beggar character rather than on Wong Fei-hung. It is therefore generally considered to exist a spinoff rather than a truthful sequel.
Yuen played this aforementioned role again in the films Story of Drunken Primary and World of the Drunken Master.
In 2010 Yuen Woo-ping returned to directing with True Legend, which could be chosen a prequel to Drunken Master as information technology explains why Ragamuffin Su (played by Vincent Zhao) turns to drinking.

Imitators

As with several successful Hong Kong action films, a number of films were released in the wake of Drunken Master (and its sequel) that could be considered to trade on the fame of the original films. These had less in common with the original films than the spinoffs starring Yuen Siu-tien. They include:

v Superfighters (aka The Drunken Fighter) (1978)
Drunken Swordsman (aka Drunken Dragon Strikes Back) (1979)
Drunken Arts and Bedridden Fist (Featuring Li Yi Min) (1979)
Drunken Chief, Slippery Snake (Starring Cliff Lok) (1979)
Shaolin Drunken Monkey (Starring Elton Chong) (1981)
The Shaolin Drunken Monk (starring Gordon Liu) (1982)
Drunken Tai Chi (directed by Yuen Woo-ping and starring Donnie Yen) (1984)
Revenge of the Drunken Chief (1984), starring Johnny Chan,^[19] whose name allowed him to trade off his more successful namesake in other depression-budget martial arts films including Gilt Dragon, Silver Snake (1979) and The Eagles Killer (1978)
Drunken Master Three (aka Drunken Master Killer) – starring Andy Lau (1994)
The Little Drunken Masters (1995)

Not all films that feature the Zui Quan "Drunken Fist" manner (or variations on it) can exist considered every bit imitators of the Drunken Master films. Films such equally Drunken Monkey (2002) may feature a drunken way of kung fu, and in the instance of The Forbidden Kingdom (2008), the same main star, but they have a fundamentally different plot and sufficiently unlike title to dissever them from Drunken Main.

Home media

On 24 April 2000, Hong Kong Legends released a DVD in the Great britain. The image is cropped from ii:35:1 to ane:78:1 and has the Standard mandarin soundtrack with dubtitles. However, information technology has a number of additional features including a deleted scene and an interview with producer Ng See-yuen.
On ii Apr 2002, Columbia Pictures released a DVD in the The states. Despite a two:35:one prototype and the inclusion of the original Cantonese track, the sound is incomplete in some sections (reverting to the English dub) and contains dubtitles. There's an audio commentary past Ric Meyers and Jeff Yang.^[20]
On 18 March 2004, HKVideo released a "Wong Fei Hung" DVD boxset in French republic containing this film (French title: "Le maître chinois") and ii others. It contains a full ii:35:1 image and the Cantonese soundtrack. Nonetheless, it contains slightly poorer image quality and no English subtitles.
On 30 Apr 2004, Mei Ah Entertainment released a remastered DVD in Hong Kong (pictured right). It contains a 2:35:i image, Cantonese Dolby Digital five.1 track, original Cantonese Dolby Digital 2.0 mono runway and Standard mandarin Dolby Digital 2.0 mono track. Subtitles include Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and English. The missing Cantonese for the opening has been re-dubbed in Cantonese and the other missing Cantonese scenes every bit extended footage in Standard mandarin due to trouble of re-dubbing with new voice actors. Many curt lines missing Cantonese had been removed. Special features include Extended footage, accessed during the film by selecting the wine jug icon when it appears on the correct top corner, Mastering the Drunken Master, a 35-second music video with clips of Jackie Chan practicing the 8 Drunken Gods from the film, film synopsis and bandage & crew.
PanMedia released a homemade DVD that contains the consummate Cantonese rail.

Cultural impact

Manner

During the late 1970s to early 1980s, Jackie Chan's shoulder-length hairstyle in Drunken Chief became popular across Asia, widely adopted by both men and women across the region.^[21]

Motion-picture show

Edgar Wright'due south The Earth's End (2013) had drunken pub fight scenes inspired by Drunken Primary. The film'southward fight scenes were choregraphed by Brad Allan, who was part of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team during the 1990s to 2000s.^[22]

Manga and anime

Manga author Akira Toriyama cited Drunken Main as one of his major inspirations for the Dragon Ball series of shōnen manga and anime, along with Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon (1973) and the Chinese novel Journey to the West.^[23] Toriyama said that he would never take come up up with Dragon Ball if he had not watched Drunken Main,^[24] and he was fatigued to its more light-hearted tone.^[25] Drunken Master as well served equally a reference for the training scenes.^[26] The series pays homage to Drunken Master when the start tournament is held, where Kame-Sennin (Master Roshi) is disguised every bit "Jackie Chun" and he tries to use a Drunken Fist technique on Son Goku (Goku).
In the Naruto series, 1 of the characters 'Stone Lee' is seen performing similar fighting styles after consuming alcohol. Known as the 'Drunken Fist' in the serial' Japanese version and the 'Loopy Fist' in the English.

Music

Jamaican musicians Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, and The Revolutionaries recorded a reggae vocal called Drunken Primary which was released in 1981 past Island on an anthology called Sly and Robbie Present Taxi.^[27]
UK dubstep artist FuntCase used speech samples taken from the flick in his vocal "Half drunk".
The hip-hop creative person Hona Costello used the title and the starring actor's name Jackie Chan for his song, "Drunken Master".

Video games

The PlayStation game Jackie Chan Stuntmaster includes a bonus level in which he wears his traditional Drunken Principal clothes and drinks vino while fighting. He even gives the Drunken Dial every bit his charge punch throughout the game.
In popular PC online game Guild Wars, in that location is a stance-skill called "Drunken Master" which temporarily increases move and attack speed. This effect is doubled if character is drunk.
In The Rex of Fighters series, the character Chin Gentsai was modeled after Su Hua Chi.
The Tekken video game series features a character named Lei Wu Long, a Hong Kong detective based on Jackie Chan'south Police Story films. While the graphic symbol was originally nicknamed Supercop after the film Police Story 3: Supercop Lei Wu Long uses 5 to half dozen+ stances which accept all of Jackie Chan's signature motion picture movies. Initially in the series it focused on the Serpent style he created for Snake in The Eagles Shadow. In Street Fighter X Tekken released in 2012, Lei Wulong'southward "Ultimate Opinion" is "Drunken Fist" based on his performance in the 1978 original and the 1994 sequel.
The Dead or Alive video game franchise features a playable grapheme named Brad Wong; a drunken wanderer introduced in Expressionless or Alive 3 who specializes in the zui quan fighting way, and was taught by a not-playable graphic symbol named Chen.
The Mortal Kombat video game franchise introduced Bo' Rai Cho in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Brotherhood; his proper name is a play on the give-and-take "borracho" (Castilian for "drunk"), and he is indeed usually depicted equally intoxicated, and conveying a canister of alcohol. His fighting moves consist of drunken style fighting mixed with vulgar deportment.

Encounter besides

Jackie Chan filmography
List of Hong Kong films
Listing of martial arts films

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External links

Drunken Primary at IMDb
Drunken Chief on HKMDB
Drunken Main at Rotten Tomatoes
Drunken Master at Box Office Mojo
Drunken Master at AllMovie
Hong Kong Fanatics: Jackie Chan

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