Come Drink with Me (1966) on Netflix
Bandit Jade-Faced Tiger seizes the governor's son, Zheng Bi-qiu, and demands his master's release. Golden Swallow, the governor's other child, sets out disguised as a man to free her brother.
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Plot summary
Zheng Bi-qiu, the governor's son and a provincial magistrate, is taken by the bandit Jade-Faced Tiger, who wants his imprisoned master set free. Zheng refuses, so Tiger sends the governor a demand: the master is to walk free within five days, or the son dies. The governor's daughter, an adept swordfighter known as Golden Swallow, sets out disguised as a man to reach her brother. When Tiger's men confront her at a local inn, she shows what she can do against them. That night a beggar called Drunken Cat, who gathers scraps with a troop of children, covertly stops an ambush aimed at her, then denies it when she thanks him. In a song he passes her a coded message marking a Buddhist monastery where the gang has settled with the help of its abbot, Liao Kung.
Cast
- Li Jen Hoas Monk
- Chih-Ching Yangas Tiao Chin-tang
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Come Drink with Me (1966)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Cheng Pei-pei was 19 and had no martial arts background when she took the lead in Come Drink with Me; King Hu cast the trained ballet dancer and choreographer deliberately, saying he was more interested in dance movement than in fighting.
- Come Drink with Me was retitled Banganangui Gyeoltu and opened at the Paramount theater in Seoul in April 1967; it became the first Hong Kong film ever screened in Korea and the year's highest-grossing foreign-language film there, drawing 300,000 spectators in Seoul alone.
