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Snake In The Eagles Shadow (1978) Director: Yuen Woo Ping
Starring Jackie Chan, Yeun Siu Tin, Hwang Jang Lee. Upon release it broke all box-office records in Hong Kong and launched Jackie Chan’s meteoric career, Crammed with intense, explosive kung fu action, it tells the story of Chien Fu who learns the deadly Snake Fist style from the last living master (Yeun Siu Tin). This alone however, is not enough to combat the rival Eagle Claw Fist, Chien incorporates his own vicious Cat’s Paw technique before confronting the vicious Eagle Claw master in a final battle to the death.
Drunken Master (1979) Director: Yuen Woo Ping
Starring Jackie Chan, Yeun Siu Tin, Hwang Jang Lee. Wong Fei Hung (Jackie Chan) is sent to train under his uncle, a wine-guzzling master (Yeun Siu Tin) of the dunken fist style who is famous for crippling his students. Desperate to escape this brutal teacher's cruel regime, he flees, but is confronted, humiliated and beaten senseless by a hired assassin (Hwang Jang Lee). Angry, ashamed and hungry for revenge, Hung returns to his uncle to learn the drunken fist technique. This second collaboration between director Yuen Woo Ping and Jackie Chan was another huge box-office hit. A mind-bending blend of madcap martial arts action and slapstick comedy, 'Drunken Master' ushered in the new genre of comedy kung fu and established Chan as its uncontested king.
The Secret Rivals (1976) Director: Ng See Yuen
Starring John Liu, Hwang Jang Lee, Wong Tao. A classic kung fu movie noticeable for the debut of awsome superkicker Hwang Jang Lee and also the debut of John Liu and Wong Tao. This movie earnt John Liu the nickname "Northern Leg" and Hwang Jang Lee the name "Silver Fox" The story involves Wong Tao as a undercover police chief who is out to arrest the Silver Fox. John Liu plays a ranger who has come to take revenge on Silver Fox for murdering his parents. Tao and Liu don't realise that the other is also a Government official. Wong Tao gives a first rate demonstration of nunchuka fighting, however its the amazing two kickers that steal the show. Watching John Liu advancing on one leg while blasting off kicks with his other leg is amazing. Hwang Jang Lee proves why he is the number one superkicker by demonstrating his lethal kicks. The final battle is a classic with all three leads going all out.
Crystal Fist (1979) Director: Hwa Yi Hung
| Starring Billy Chong, Yeun Siu Tin, Hau Sau Seng. In 1979 Indonesian actor Billy Chong burst onto cinema screens across the world in Crystal Fist. Chong plays a man who witnesses the slaying of his father by the Phoenix Eye Fist Master Jen (Hau Sau Seng). Many years later Chong, now a fully fledged wanderer, gets a job working in the kitchen of a kung fu gym. It is here that he befriends an old cook (Yuen Siu Tien). One day the gym is raided by Deaf Man and Blind Man, disciples of Phoenix Eye Jen who has a clan feud to settle with the old cook. Chong sustains serious injury in a fight with from handicapped attackers. The old cook takes pity on Billy and teaches him the Shadow Eagles Claw, a new technique designed to beat Master Jen and his disciples. After rigorous training Chong is ready to confront the deadly Phoenix Eye Fist. Brilliantly choreographed by Yuen Kwai and the Yuen brothers (all who worked on Snake in the Eagles Shadow and Drunken Master). It made Billy Chong an overnight martial arts sensation and the film still remains one of the all time kung fu classics. |