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Drunken Master [DVD] [1979]
enlarge	Director: Yuen Woo-Ping Actors: Jackie Chan, Siu Tien Yuen, Casanova Wong, Hwang Jang Lee Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £2.47 as of 24/11/2009 05:47 GMT details You Save: £10.52 (81%) New (14) from £2.47 Seller: great_entertainment Rating: 5 reviews Sales Rank: 9502 Format: PAL Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 107 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5035822352537 ASIN: B000YZ858K Theatrical Release Date: 1979 Release Date: January 28, 2008 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk pThough it wasn't Jackie Chan's first film, iDrunken Master/i 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 iDrunken Master/i, Jackie is only beginning to cultivate his mixture of action and comedy; here the emphasis is on kung fu acrobatics, but the moves are astounding. The final fight is dizzying and amazingly choreographed by director Yuen Woo-ping (now famous as the fight choreographer for iThe Matrix/i). --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews: OMG... SO COOL... BUY IT NOW!!!!!!!!!! February 15, 2009 Mrs. J. Bagley 0 out of 2 found this review helpful SO COOL! I LOVED IT AFTER I HAD ONLY SEEN FIVE MINUTES! BUY IT NOOOOW!!!! Drunken Master July 19, 2009 Jane Godfrey (Poole, Dorset) As there is no option for 6, then 5 will have to do. This is one of, if not the best Jackie Chan movie ever. He blends martial arts with comedy so well, yet there are some dramatic scenes and the final fight scene is epic. Your life will not be complete until you see this movie. SEE IT NOW! Not perfect but the best release to date for one of Jackie Chan's most enjoyable films July 28, 2009 Trevor Willsmer (London, England) The much-imitated Drunken Master confirmed Jackie Chan newfound stardom after his breakthrough film Snake in the Eagle's Shadow when Hong Kong producers stopped trying to turn him into just another action hero in the Bruce Lee-wannabe mold and finally realised that his unique selling point was the combination of physical comedy with action. The plot's pretty basic - Chan's undisciplined young future folk hero Wong Fei-Hung has to learn `Drunken' kung fu to take on a killer - but it's just there to provide enough of a excuse to allow a comic action scene every reel or so, most of them wonderfully ingeniously choreographed and just great fun. It's not a deep film or a deathless masterpiece, even though it is almost perfectly directed by Yuen Woo-Ping: it's just a pure entertainment that manages to be purely entertaining in the very best way. br / br /Sony's release doesn't have the plethora of extras from Hong Kong Legends' original UK released, but unlike that version is in the right widescreen ratio - 2.35:1 instead of HKL's 1.85:1. The opening fight is still cut due to negative damage and parts of the original Cantonese soundtrack are missing (replaced by the odd bit of English), but the film really benefits from being seen in the right ratio, setting off the stunts much more comfortably. The only real extra is a commentary from Ric Mayers and Jeff Yang carried over from Sony's Region 4 Astralian disc (which also included the similarly entertaining Snake in the Eagle's Shadow), but it's still the best version of the film itself available to date. br / brilliant February 24, 2009 Sally (Liverpool UK) This is a movie I watched in my youth and I bought it for my kids to watch because hey are such Jackie Chan fans. It didn't disappoint us. The movie is just as amusing as I recalled. Drunken Master October 15, 2009 A. J. Harrison (UK) I have never been the greatest fan of Jackie Chan (bar the rush hour movies) but this film is very enjoyable from start to finnish. The film doesnt really have a story Jackie Chan plays a unruley martial arts student who is forced by his father to go and train with the legendary Begger Shu. I never really found the film that amusing but is still very good and parts of the music score was used later on in Jet Li's (superior) Once Upon a Time in China. br / br /Any Jackie Chan fan must see this film at all costs. If you prefer Jet Li and Bruce Lee like I do they it proberly wont be as enjoyable.

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