Jackie Chan: Drunken Master

Comedy, Adventure, Action

Jackie Chan	Wong Fei-Hung
Siu Tien Yuen	Su Hua Chi / Sam Seed
Jang Lee Hwang	Thunderleg
Ching Chiang
Ging Man Fung	Mr. Li
Hsia Hsu	King of Bamboo
Chiao Lin
Linda Lin	Fei-hung's aunt
Ying Li
Chen Tien Loong	Bully
Dean Shek	Professor Kai-Hsien
Fu Tsan Shih
Kien Shih
Casanova Wong
Pan Pan Yeung

Director	Woo-ping Yuen
Producer	See-Yuen Ng
Writer	See-Yuen Ng; Woo-ping Yuen

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