1978 · action · comedy · martial-arts
Drunken Master (1978)
Directed by Yuen Woo-ping1h 51m1978
After getting into trouble, a mischievous young man is sent to train under a brutal, but slovenly old beggar, who teaches him the secret of the Drunken Fist.
Our read: Drunken Master (1978) (1978) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded action · comedy · martial-arts entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Cosy, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- intense
- funny
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“You want young Jackie Chan learning drunken kung fu in a fun, acrobatic comedy.”
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