This is one of the Top 5 Jackie Chan movies that served as one of the inspirations behind Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga.
Jackie Chan's writing and directorial debut.
The only movie Jackie Chan completed for Wei Lo's production company after the success of both Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978) and Jui Kuen: The Drunken Master (1978), and the first one in which he was given true creative control, and the title of Director.
Fearless Hyena features several unusual slapstick fight scenes, including a chopsticks duel (to which an homage was later paid in the cartoon film Kung Fu Panda), Hing-lung fighting while disguised as a cross-eyed intellectually disabled man, disguised as a woman, and using "Emotional Kung-Fu", a style that involves vividly displaying the emotions of anger, sorrow, joy and happiness to find the opponent's weakness, thus fighting whilst crying or laughing.