A young peasant boy who is bullied by local noblemen seeks to learn drunken boxing from the head of a local martial arts school. When the boy beats up his previous tormentors, the nobles patriarch challenges the boys teacher, the drunken master, who defeats the lot of them. Embarrased, the nobles retain two hired snake style killers. They kill everyone except the peasant boy.
Practical Effects
Animal style choreography that actually looks like animals fighting.
Stunts
Drunken boxing sequences that defy physics and sobriety.
Director
Cheung Sum
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Snake-style kung fu was developed to mimic serpent strikes — quick, deceptive, and deadly at close range.
Cheung Sum directed this during the peak of the animal style craze, when every studio needed their own drunken master answer to Jackie Chan's success.
HK
