Drunken Master VCD
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| Product Title: | Drunken Master 醉拳 醉拳 ドランクモンキー 酔拳 （醉拳） Drunken Master |
| Artist Name(s): | Jackie Chan (Actor) | Yuan Siu Tin (Actor) | Hwang Jang Lee 成龍 (Actor) | 袁小田 (Actor) | 黃正利 成龙 (Actor) | 袁小田 (Actor) | 黄正利 成龍 （ジャッキー・チェン） (Actor) | 袁小田（ユエン・シャオティエン） (Actor) | 黄正利（ウォン・チンリー） 성룡 (Actor) | Yuan Siu Tin (Actor) | Hwang Jang Lee |
| Director: | Yuen Woo Ping 袁和平 袁和平 袁和平（ユエン・ウーピン） Yuen Woo Ping |
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| Release Date: | 2004-04-30 |
| Language: | Cantonese, Mandarin |
| Subtitles: | English, Traditional Chinese |
| Country of Origin: | Hong Kong |
| Disc Format(s): | VCD |
| Duration: | 98 (mins) |
| Publisher: | Mei Ah (HK) |
| Other Information: | 2VCDs |
| Package Weight: | 120 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 2782 |
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Director：Yuen Woo-ping
《醉拳》是把功夫與喜劇元素混合的代表作。故事講述年少時的黃飛鴻（成龍飾）終日惹事生非，其父黃麒英為使其成才，請來好友蘇乞兒調教他，最後飛鴻以自創的醉拳大敗敵人。此片除掀起了武術喜劇的熱潮外，更造就了成龍這位實力非凡的武打巨星，片中每招每式均表現出成龍的精湛武藝。導演袁和平安排的動作場面精彩刺激，盡顯他對武術的了解及其出色的拍攝技巧。
Blending interesting martial arts moves with slapstick comedy, "Drunken Master" has created a new genre of comedy kung fu. Jackie plays Fei-hung, the rebellious son of a kung fu master. To give him a lesson, his father apprentices him to another master named So Hi, who has a unique "drunken" fighting style. In the movie, Jackie shows his astounding kung fu techniques and natural humour. The fight sequences are so well arranged, which are dizzying and amazingly choreographed by director Yuen Woo-ping.
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Hong Kong Film Awards - Best 100 Chinese Films 2005
- Best 100 Chinese Films Winner
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Professional Review of "Drunken Master"
This professional review refers to Drunken Master
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Trapped in a contract with schlockmeister Lo Wei (the man who supposedly "discovered" Bruce Lee), Jackie Chan was Mr. Flop. A kid, hailed as the next Bruce Lee, who wasn't delivering the goods, and was getting egg after egg running down his face. He was starring in the formulaic and forgettable - Magnificent Bodyguards and To Kill With Intrigue - while Lau Kar-leung was forging Shaw Brothers classics, and his opera school big brother, Sammo Hung, was shooting his own movies, and had become a respected and innovative film industry big shot.
Jackie was in cinematic purgatory, until Seasonal Films came knocking. Producer Ng See-yuen borrowed Jackie for three months from Lo Wei at the recommendation of his stunt director, Yuen Woo-ping (The Matrix), an upperclassman from Master Yu Jim-yuen's opera school. And then they sat down. And then they talked about what would make a good movie. In the "Director is King" world of Hong Kong movies this was a rarity. First they made the kung fu comedy Snake in the Eagle's Shadow which hit big and made Jackie a star. Then, with some time left on Jackie's loan, they came up with the idea of sending up Wong Fei-hung, China's virtuous hero and the subject of over one hundred movies starring venerable patriarch, Kwan Tak-hing. Wong Fei-hung is as close to sacred as Hong Kong movies get and Jackie, Yuen Woo-ping and Ng See-yuen decided they'd play him as a snotty kid, constantly getting into trouble, who derives his powers from drunken kung fu - the drunker he gets the better his fighting. A happy, collaborative shoot, Drunken Master also starred Simon Yuen (Yuen Woo-ping's 67 year-old father) as Sam the Seed, Jackie's drunk, vagabond master. Having always complained that it wasn't his fault his movies flopped, Jackie had a lot to prove. Snake in Eagle's Shadow gave him stardom, what he did with it was up to him. In Drunken Master, he attacks it with a ferocity usually reserved for his foes. Jackie plays Fei-hung as a naughty, father-frustrating, disrespectful kid: insulting his niece, getting into a street brawl with his elderly aunt, and slacking at his training. Dad basically sells him to Sam the Seed and after a grueling round of muscle-shattering training Jackie's ready to take on hired assassin, Hwang Jang-lee (who had knocked out one of Jackie's teeth in Snake in Eagle's Shadow). Jackie triumphs in the end, of course, and so did Drunken Master. It broke Bruce Lee's box office records, it broke Hong Kong's box office records, it broke records in Malaysia, Singapore and did well in America on the drive-in circuit. In 1982 it was finally released in Japan and made Jackie a star there, too. This is the paradigm shift caught on film as krunky old kung fu morphed into kung fu comedy. Watch carefully as Jackie, eyes ablaze, teeth shining, grin plastered across his face, takes his first, big bite out of stardom. by Grady Hendrix |
Customer Review of "Drunken Master"
Average Customer Rating for All Editions of this Product: (6)
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May 27, 2007
This customer review refers to Drunken Master
| One of my top faves - check out Jackie's fitness in those training sessions. He can still do 80% of them you know! Only bad cantonese dubbing was the opening scene. A little booboo in editing with Jackie's costumes in a couple of the scenes as they were clean/dirty/clean again. Probably cause he drenched them with all those re-takes. Good storyline, top fighting sequences, wide angle shots, good punchlines (only if you understand cantonese). With all new digitally remastered techniques, don't you wish these distributors would put back all those deleted scenes (not because they're bad but because screening time was limited in those days)! True Jackie's fans must have this in their collection. I do and am waiting for improved version of this dvd for proper special features as this one is a little disappointing. |
December 20, 2004
This customer review refers to Drunken Master
Who did it??
| It would have been 10/10 here's why it's only 3. Drunken Master and Jet's Shaolin Temple was the first movie I watched and it has influence me to become a Kung Fu practitioner. I memic the drunken style when I was young and I was pretty good at it. So as you gussed it I knew all the scenes and what they were about to say. Well not this crappy cut version you won't. I'm P.O just thinking about it. It has destroyed my memory of this great Kung Fu movie. And why did they cut the section when his master was throwing him around?? Oh! Well I'll just keep cursing the distrubutor that did this...Maybe my Kung fu can finally be put in use. Muah Ha Ha Ha!!!! |
May 25, 2004
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Bad Cantonese dubbing
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This review is based on watching with the Cantonese audio track. The original film itself I would give 10/10 but this release is marred by poor Cantonese dubbing. In USA the previous release of this movie on DVD was by TriStar and they also messed up the Cantonese dubbing which ended up a mixture of English and Cantonese. Rumor is that the Cantonese soundtrack they were given was so bad that they replaced some poor sections with English. Thus you watch a movie moving in and out between English and Cantonese. For this release they tried to redubb the sections that were bad, but they chose the worst voice actors they could find. Jackie Chan and other actors sound embarrasingly stupid with sissy girl screams. Also the movie, has extended scenes. These are not infact 'bonuses' as you would first imagine but scenes that they never bothered to translate to Cantonese, so they trimmed out the film and relegated them to 'extended scenes' section. There are also other trimmings from the movie that are no where to be found. |
April 3, 2003
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This movie, I shouldn't even call it a movie, I must say: "Masterpiece of filmmaking" is one of the Jackie Chan's best early pieces of martial arts. The nonstop universal comedy will make the youngest child and the oldest adult laugh and at the same time the intrigue action will keep the martial arts fans entertained till the end. Even if you are not the fan of martial arts you got to see it, because this film will never go out of style! I'm looking forward to seeing part III, Jackie is working hard on the script, he wants the storyline to be unique and interesting just like the original Drunken Master. |
November 10, 2002
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This one is a classic |
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