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Drunken Master

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DVD - 02 April, 2002
Sony Pictures
R (Restricted)
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Director: Woo-ping Yuen

Number of Media: 1
Features:

  • Closed-captioned
  • Color
  • Dubbed
  • DVD-Video
  • Subtitled
  • Widescreen
  • NTSC

Related Areas: Action, Action / Adventure, Action Comedy, Adventure, Cantonese, Color, Easygoing, English, Feature, Foreign Film - Chinese, Heroic Mission, High Historical Importance, Hong Kong, Humorous, Light, Martial Arts, Martial Arts / Kung-Fu, Movie, Righting the Wronged, Rousing

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DVD Description

Though it wasn't Jackie Chan's first film, Drunken Master is the film that cemented his stardom. Jackie plays the rebellious son of a kung fu master. To teach Jackie the value of discipline, his father apprentices him to another master named So Hi, who has a unique "drunken" fighting style. Jackie chafes at So Hi's rigorous exercises and runs away--only to be brutally humiliated at the hands of a hired killer named Thunderleg. Chastened, Jackie becomes So Hi's devoted student. He soon discovers he will need everything he's learned when Thunderleg is hired to kill his father. In Drunken Master, Jackie is only beginning to cultivate his mixture of action and comedy; here the emphasis is on kung fu acrobatics. But the kung fu is astounding. The final fight is dizzying and amazingly choreographed by director Yuen Woo-ping (now famous as the fight choreographer for The Matrix). --Bret Fetzer


Customer Reviews

Right video,wrong audio.

I've watched this movie a hundred times and it's Jackie Chan's best and one of the best kung fu films ever.I used to watch this on vhs though.When this remastered dvd came out I got really excited to add it to my collection but was dissapointed not long after it started.You see, on the vhs version,the english dubbed voices and dialog are different.I am so used to that version that it's actually quite difficult to enjoy this movie the same.The same thing happened from the original Iron Monkey vhs to the Quentin Tarantino presents version.It really throws me off.It may not sound like a big deal but what if someone suddenly re-released Star Wars with different voices and some changed dialog.No,this is not Star Wars but you get the idea.This one even has profanity that was completely absent in the older version.Most people probably won't notice it or realize it as this'll be the first version they've seen but I write this for me and for those who had the same reaction I did.I'm gonna try to hunt down an older dvd with original dubbing cause it's just so different.Other than that,the transfer is good and you'll see some of the best kung fu you'll see anywhere.Its a 5 star film for sure.

The sign of truly quality kung fu is how long the camera stays on the action without switching angles.In these switches,the actors usually stop,then restart a new series of moves,only memorizing a few moves at a time.In almost all of Jackie Chan's older movies,you'll see the camera stay on for a long,stringed together series of movements and you'll only then really appreciate the talent it takes to put those in succession over a long length of time.It'll change the way you look at action and fighting sequences in movies.You'll see some cheap films where the actors throw 2 or 3 punches then stop,2 or 3 more moves,then stop and repeat.But Jackie puches, kicks, jumps, rolls, ducks, and repeats and repeats in one camera shot.He's truly amazing and is the greatest movie martial artist I've ever seen.For you football fans out there,he's the Barry Sanders of kung fu.Nobody moves like Jackie.Many people are quick to point out Bruce Lee as the greatest martial artist ever and in the real world,maybe he was, but when it comes to kung fu movies,he's not even close to Jackie Chan.


Acton Packed

This movie was bought for my husband as a gift and I was very surprised with how much action it had in it. It was enjoyable. It is older than some of Jackie's others but was still good.


Excellent purchase

arrived in a month, which is normal for me. And the dvd was in excellent conditions.

 

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