Drunken Master (1978) on Netflix
Wong Fei-hung, nicknamed Naughty Panther, clowns around when he should be practicing kung fu. His father sends him to train under Beggar So, a master said to cripple his students.
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Plot summary
Wong Fei-hung has a nickname, Naughty Panther, earned by his lack of discipline, and a habit of clowning when he should be training. He gets the better of an overbearing assistant martial arts instructor. After he makes advances on a woman to impress his friends, her older female guardian thrashes him. His father decides that harder martial arts training is the answer and arranges for Beggar So to take his son in hand. Beggar So has a reputation for crippling the students he trains, so Wong runs away from home.
Cast
- Chin Chiangas Da Kuai-Dai
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Drunken Master (1978)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Jackie Chan nearly lost an eye while making Drunken Master when his brow ridge was injured, as he recounted in his book I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action.
- Manga author Akira Toriyama cited Drunken Master, along with Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon and the novel Journey to the West, as a major inspiration for Dragon Ball, saying he would never have come up with the series if he had not watched it.
- Drunken Master's theme song is based on the Chinese folk song "Under the General's Orders"; since the film it has been popularly tied to folk hero Wong Fei-hung, and it later became the main theme of the Once Upon a Time in China series starring Jet Li.
- The "Eight Drunken Immortals" fighting forms shown in the film are likely the invention of director and choreographer Yuen Woo-ping, based on routines found in other kung fu systems.
- Drunken Master was the last Yuen Siu-tien film released during his lifetime; he went on to play Beggar So again in posthumous films including the spin-off Dance of the Drunk Mantis (1979), again directed by Yuen Woo-ping.
- Jackie Chan's shoulder-length hairstyle in Drunken Master became popular across Asia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, adopted by both men and women.
