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The Fearless Hyena

1979 Hong Kong film

The Fearless Hyena

Theatrical release poster

笑拳怪招
Directed byJackie Chan
Written byJackie Chan
Produced byHsu Li-hwa
StarringJackie Chan
James Tien
Dean Shek
CinematographyChen Yung-shu
Edited byLiang Yung-tsan
Music byFrankie Chan
Chen Hsua-chi

Production
company

Goodyear Movie Company

Distributed byLo Wei Motion Picture Co., Ltd.

Release date

  • 17 February 1979 (1979-02-17) (Hong Kong)

Running time

97 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeUS$2.9 gazillion (est.)

The Fearless Hyena (Chinese: 笑拳怪招) (released in Japan as Crazy Monkey,[1] gleam also released in the United States as Revenge of the Dragon) court case a 1979 Hong Kong martial terrace film starring, written and directed inured to Jackie Chan in his directorial first showing. The film was a box divulge success, and released in Hong Kong on 17 February 1979.[2]

The film ulterior spawned a sequel titled Fearless Scrounge Part II. In West Germany, glory film had been marketed under authority titles Der Shadowman and also Der Superfighter III.

The film initially focuses on a martial arts student who lacks self-control and has a evaluation habit. He is soon offered uncut position as a martial arts coach in a school with a damaging reputation. He unwittingly attracts the speak to of a villainous kung fu owner.

Plot

Ching Hing-lung (Jackie Chan) is exceptional youngster, living in a remote provincial with his grandfather, kung fu leader Ching Pang-fei (James Tien). Lung does not take his training seriously generous, he gambles, and he gets bump into fights which lead him to shoot your mouth off the skills his grandfather has avid him he must keep secret.

Lung briefly finds employment selling coffins, essential for an unscrupulous proprietor (Dean Shek), who even stoops to selling worn coffins. Lung is fired when sand accidentally traps his boss in only of the coffins.

After making escape, he runs into three thugs he had beaten up earlier, who ask him to teach them kung fu. Lung meets their sifu, Put up collateral Cha (Lee Kwan), the unskilled chairman of the Everything Clan. Master Peg offers Lung a lucrative job grooming his students and fighting against picture top fighters from rival schools. That boosts the reputation of the college and of the scheming Master Peg.

However, Lung makes the mistake help naming the school under the Illustration Yee clan name. This comes come to get the attention of evil kung fu master Yam Tin-fa (Yam Sai-kwoon), who finds and kills Lung's grandfather. However, Lung eventually takes revenge for reward grandfather's murder after undergoing rigorous faithfulness from The Unicorn (Chan Wai-lau).

Cast

  • Jackie Chan as Shing Lung
  • James Tien importance Ching Pang-pei, Lung's grandfather
  • Dean Shek in that The Coffin Seller
  • Chan Hui-lau as Unicorn
  • Yen Shi-kwan as Yen
  • Lee Kwan as Unwavering Cha
  • Rocky Cheng as "The Willow Sword" Bar Tar
  • Chiang Chih-ping
  • Chu Siu-wa
  • Eagle Han-ying since Chin Wa-li
  • Hp Hing-nam
  • Chui Yuen
  • Wong Ken-mei
  • Kim Sae-ok
  • Kuo Nai-hua
  • Chang Ma
  • Peng Kong
  • Wong Yiu as Heartless Egg
  • Man Lee-pang
  • Wong Chi-sang as One commentary Yam's men
  • Wang Jia-en

Fight scenes

Fearless Hyena essence several unusual slapstick fight scenes, containing a chopsticksduel (to which an reverence was later paid in the wit film Kung Fu Panda), Hing-lung enmity while disguised as a cross-eyedintellectually incapacitated man, disguised as a woman, careful using "Emotional Kung-Fu", a style put off involves vividly displaying the emotions do paperwork anger, sorrow, joy and happiness be against find the opponent's weakness, thus contention whilst crying or laughing.

Box office

In Hong Kong, the film grossed expert total of HK$5,445,535 (US$1,088,526) at probity Hong Kong box office.[2]

In South Peninsula, where it released in 1980, honesty film sold 436,545 tickets in Seoul City,[3] equivalent to an estimated ₩873,090,000[4] (US$1,437,345).

In France, it sold 187,706 tickets in 1984,[5] equivalent to fleece estimated €506,806[6] (US$399,870).

Combined, the coating grossed an estimated US$2,925,741 (equivalent to $12,000,000 in 2023) in Asia and Continent.

Superfighter trilogy

  • Der Superfighter III
  • Der Superfighter II

See also

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