What Is the Kicking Martial Arts Style Used in the Legend of Drunken Master

1978 Hong Kong picture show

Drunken Chief
Original Hong Kong movie poster
Traditional	醉拳
Cantonese	Zeoiiii Kyun4
Directed by	Yuen Woo-ping
Written past	Siao Lung Ng See-yuen
Produced by	Ng Come across-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 by	Seasonal Film Corporation
Release date	5 October 1978 (1978-10-05)
Running time	110 minutes
Land	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box office	United states$xvi.five million (est.)

Drunken Primary (Chinese: 醉拳; lit. 'drunken fist') is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts comedy picture show directed by Yuen Woo-ping, and starring Jackie Chan, Yuen Siu-tien, and Hwang Jang-lee.^[1] Information technology was a success at the Hong Kong box role, earning two and a half times the amount of Yuen's and Chan's previous film, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, which was also considered a hit.^{[2] [3]}

It is an early milestone of the kung fu comedy genre, and helped brand Jackie Chan famous in Asia. The film popularised the Zui Quan ("drunken fist") infused with unique animal fighting style. In 2017, it was ranked number iii on GamesRadar'south listing of 50 greatest kung fu movies of all time.^[4] It spawned an official sequel, Drunken Master Ii (1994), and several spin-offs. It had a meaning cultural impact, inspiring numerous afterwards films, music, manga, anime and video games.

Background

The film'due south protagonist Wong Fei-hung was a Chinese martial artist, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and a revolutionary who lived towards the end of the Qing Dynasty. He became a Chinese folk hero and the subject area of several Hong Kong television set programmes and films. Beggar So, who plays a supporting part in the film, is also another character from Chinese folklore and one of the Ten Tigers of Canton. The Beggar So grapheme is oftentimes cast equally an associate of Wong Fei-hung or Wong's uncle.

Plot

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

Wong's father arranges for Ragamuffin And then to railroad train his son in martial arts. Ragamuffin Then has a reputation for crippling his students during preparation so Wong flees from home in an attempt to escape his penalty. Penniless, he stops at a restaurant and tries to con a boyfriend patron into offering him a gratuitous meal. As he was about to get out subsequently his repast, he discovers that the homo is actually the owner of the eating place. He fights with the possessor'south lackeys in an try to escape. An one-time drunkard nearby is drawn into the fight and helps him escape. The drunkard turns out to be Beggar So, the Drunken Chief. (Ragamuffin Then is known in some versions of the motion-picture show every bit Sam Seed, And so Hi or Su Hua-chi)

Ragamuffin And then forces Wong into his savage and rigorous training programme. Wong flees over 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'south Kick", a swift and deadly kicking fashion 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's grooming program.

The grooming resumes and before long Wong learns Beggar So'due south secret style of martial arts, a form of Drunken Boxing called "The Eight Drunken Immortals", named later on the eight xian that the fighting style references. Wong masters seven of the eight styles with the exception of Drunken Miss Ho's as he feels that her style of fighting is as well feminine.

Meanwhile, Yim Tit-sam is contracted past a business rival to kill Wong's male parent. Wong's father fights with Yim and is defeated and injured by him. Wong and Beggar And then get in on the scene on fourth dimension and Wong continues the fight with Yim. Beggar So promises non to interfere in the fight. Wong employs the new skills he has learned and outmatches Yim's kick style. Yim then resorts to his secret technique, the Devil'south Shadowless Paw, which is too fast for Wong to defeat. Wong confesses that he did not main the final way so Ragamuffin So tells him to combine the seven styles and create his own version of the last style. 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 (United kingdom version)
• Yuen Siu-Tin can (or Simon Yuen) as Ragamuffin So / Sam Seed
• Hwang Jang-lee every bit Thunderleg Yen Tie Hsin / Thunderfoot
• Dean Shek as Professor Kai-Hsin
• Lam Kau as Wong Kei-Ying / Robert Wong (U.k. version)
• Fung King-man as Mr. Lee Man-ho
• Hsu Hsia as Male monarch of Bamboo Hsu Ching-tien
• Linda Lin as Wong Fei-hung's aunt
• Yuen Shun-yi as Chan Kwok-wai / Charlie Wei
• Tong Jing every bit Wong Fei-hung'due south cousin
• Tino Wong as Jerry Lee
• Yuen Woo-Ping as Man with bucket of greens

Fight scenes and martial arts

A number of notable fights are featured in the motion picture, near all of them with potent elements of one-act—from the game of Keep Away with Wong Kei-ying's self, but incompetent, assistant kung fu instructor, to the novel "head-fu" fighting style used by 1 of his opponents. The film features the Hung Ga system of fighting, which was historically proficient by Wong Fei-hung and his father Wong Kei-ying, both of whom are major characters in the film. The fauna styles of Snake, Crane, and Tiger performed in the film are derived wholly from the Hung Ga system and conduct only a tangential relationship to the Fujian White Crane, Lama Pai (Tibetan White Crane), Black Tiger, and Snake systems of kung fu. Monkey manner kung fu, popular in Southern Chinese martial arts performances, is also shown briefly.

Numerous systems of kung fu include "Drunken Boxing" forms (e.g. Choi Lei Fut and Drunken Monkey), and the Taoist Eight Immortals are pop staples of Chinese culture and art. Nonetheless, the "8 Drunken Immortals" forms depicted in this film are probable the creation of director and choreographer Yuen Woo-ping and based on routines plant in other systems.

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

According to his book I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Activeness, Chan nearly lost an eye later his brow ridge was injured.^{[5] [vi]}

Theme song

The theme song of Drunken Master is based on a Chinese folk vocal, "Under the General'due south Orders". Since Drunken Main, the theme song has been popularly associated with the folk hero Wong Fei-hung, who Jackie Chan plays in the film. It was afterwards used in the 1983 film Winners and Sinners, starring Sammo Hung; it was played in a market scene whilst the Five Lucky Stars are watching 2 men demonstrating the beneficial effects of their medicines and their martial arts stances, in reference to Wong Fei-hung. "Nether the Full general's Orders" later get the main theme song for the Once Upon a Time in China series starring Jet Li, who also plays Wong Fei-hung.

Box office

At the Hong Kong box role, Drunken Main earned an impressive HK$6,763,793^[2] (Usa$i,445,255).^[7] It was the second most popular film in Hong Kong in 1978 behind the Hui brothers' The Contract and third on the best list.^{[viii] [9]}

In Japan, where it released on 21 July 1979, it became one of the year'southward summit 10 highest-grossing films, earning ¥1.9 billion ^[10] (Usa$8.7 1000000).^[11] In South 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^[13] (United states$2,784,800).^[14] The film as well broke records in Malaysia and Singapore.^[viii]

In Deutschland, where it was released as Sie nannten ihn Knochenbrecher ("They Called Him Bone Billow") on 25 July 1980, it was the 41st highest-grossing motion-picture show of the yr, selling 584,312 tickets,^[15] equivalent to an estimated €1,460,780^[16] (US$2,063,606).^[17] In Spain, the picture sold 823,203 tickets,^[eighteen] equivalent to an estimated €1,070,164^[16] (US$ane,489,989).

Combined, the film grossed an estimated total of approximately US$xvi,483,650 (equivalent to $68,000,000 in 2021) in Eastern asia and Europe.

Sequels and spinoffs

• Drunken Primary II (1994) stars Jackie Chan, and is considered the but official sequel. Chan portrays the aforementioned grapheme, Wong Fei-hung. The United states release of the movie in 2000 was entitled The Legend of Drunken Main.
• In 1979, Yuen Siu-Tin reprised the role of Beggar So in the film Dance of the Boozer Mantis, which is entitled Drunken Primary Part two (not to be confused with Drunken Chief 2 noted higher up) in some releases. The film, which was again directed by his son, Yuen Woo-Ping, does not characteristic Jackie Chan, focusing instead on the drunken beggar character rather than on Wong Fei-hung. It is therefore generally considered to be a spinoff rather than a truthful sequel.
• Yuen played this same role again in the films Story of Drunken Chief and Earth of the Drunken Master.
• In 2010 Yuen Woo-ping returned to directing with True Legend, which could be called a prequel to Drunken Master as it explains why Beggar 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:

• 5 Superfighters (aka The Drunken Fighter) (1978)
• Drunken Swordsman (aka Drunken Dragon Strikes Dorsum) (1979)
• Drunken Arts and Crippled Fist (Featuring Li Yi Min) (1979)
• Drunken Master, Slippery Serpent (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 Master (1984), starring Johnny Chan,^[19] whose proper noun allowed him to trade off his more successful namesake in other low-upkeep martial arts films including Golden Dragon, Silver Snake (1979) and The Eagles Killer (1978)
• Drunken Primary Three (aka Drunken Master Killer) – starring Andy Lau (1994)
• The Footling Drunken Masters (1995)

Not all films that feature the Zui Quan "Drunken Fist" style (or variations on information technology) tin can exist considered as imitators of the Drunken Master films. Films such every bit Drunken Monkey (2002) may feature a drunken way of kung fu, and in the example of The Forbidden Kingdom (2008), the same principal star, but they take a fundamentally different plot and sufficiently different title to carve up them from Drunken Master.

Home media

• On 24 April 2000, Hong Kong Legends released a DVD in the Britain. The prototype is cropped from two:35:ane to i:78:1 and has the Mandarin soundtrack with dubtitles. However, it has a number of boosted features including a deleted scene and an interview with producer Ng See-yuen.
• On ii Apr 2002, Columbia Pictures released a DVD in the U.s.. Despite a 2:35:i image and the inclusion of the original Cantonese rail, the audio is incomplete in some sections (reverting to the English language dub) and contains dubtitles. There'due south an audio commentary by Ric Meyers and Jeff Yang.^[twenty]
• On 18 March 2004, HKVideo released a "Wong Fei Hung" DVD boxset in France containing this movie (French championship: "Le maître chinois") and two others. It contains a full 2:35:1 image and the Cantonese soundtrack. However, it contains slightly poorer image quality and no English subtitles.
• On xxx April 2004, Mei Ah Entertainment released a remastered DVD in Hong Kong (pictured right). It contains a 2:35:1 image, Cantonese Dolby Digital v.1 rail, original Cantonese Dolby Digital two.0 mono track 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 brusk lines missing Cantonese had been removed. Special features include Extended footage, accessed during the moving picture by selecting the wine jug icon when it appears on the right peak corner, Mastering the Drunken Master, a 35-second music video with clips of Jackie Chan practicing the 8 Drunken Gods from the film, pic synopsis and cast & crew.
• PanMedia released a bootleg DVD that contains the complete Cantonese track.

Cultural bear upon

Style

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

Movie

• Edgar Wright's The Earth's End (2013) had drunken pub fight scenes inspired by Drunken Primary. The motion picture's fight scenes were choregraphed by Brad Allan, who was office of the Jackie Chan Stunt Squad during the 1990s to 2000s.^[22]

Manga and anime

• Manga author Akira Toriyama cited Drunken Master 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 W.^[23] Toriyama said that he would never have come up with Dragon Ball if he had not watched Drunken Chief,^[24] and he was drawn to its more light-hearted tone.^[25] Drunken Master also served equally a reference for the training scenes.^[26] The series pays homage to Drunken Chief when the first tournament is held, where Kame-Sennin (Master Roshi) is disguised equally "Jackie Chun" and he tries to use a Drunken Fist technique on Son Goku (Goku).
• In the Naruto serial, i of the characters 'Rock Lee' is seen performing similar fighting styles after consuming alcohol. Known equally the 'Drunken Fist' in the series' Japanese version and the 'Loopy Fist' in the English language.

Music

• Jamaican musicians Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, and The Revolutionaries recorded a reggae song called Drunken Main which was released in 1981 by Island on an album chosen Sly and Robbie Present Taxi.^[27]
• UK dubstep artist FuntCase used speech samples taken from the picture show in his song "Half drunk".
• The hip-hop artist 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 Master apparel and drinks wine while fighting. He fifty-fifty gives the Drunken Punch as his charge dial throughout the game.
• In popular PC online game Guild Wars, in that location is a opinion-skill chosen "Drunken Main" which temporarily increases movement and attack speed. This effect is doubled if grapheme is drunk.
• In The Male monarch of Fighters serial, the character Mentum Gentsai was modeled subsequently Su Hua Chi.
• The Tekken video game series features a grapheme named Lei Wu Long, a Hong Kong detective based on Jackie Chan'southward Police Story films. While the character was originally nicknamed Supercop later the pic Police Story 3: Supercop Lei Wu Long uses 5 to 6+ stances which have all of Jackie Chan's signature film movies. Initially in the serial it focused on the Snake style he created for Ophidian in The Eagles Shadow. In Street Fighter X Tekken released in 2012, Lei Wulong's "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 graphic symbol named Brad Wong; a drunken wanderer introduced in Dead or Alive 3 who specializes in the zui quan fighting style, and was taught by a non-playable character named Chen.
• The Mortal Kombat video game franchise introduced Bo' Rai Cho in Mortal Kombat: Mortiferous Alliance; his name is a play on the word "borracho" (Spanish for "drunk"), and he is indeed usually depicted as intoxicated, and carrying a canister of alcohol. His fighting moves consist of drunken way fighting mixed with vulgar deportment.

Run into also

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

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External links

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

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