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A wealthy man sends his young son away to learn Kung Fu from the drunken master. When he returns he gets involved in a fight between a local thug, who employs various fighters to do away with the boy and his father and take control of the local area.

Average low budget martial arts movie for fans only

Apparently child abuse was once legal and that was in 1979. Simon Yuen tortures a child in the first scenes and he grows up to be Li Yi- Min. He is a martial arts expert so he cannot fight anyone to the disappointment of his father. Many over-acting stunt men want to fight him. He also meets a kung fu chick, Chang Hsiao-Fan, in her only movie. Then he meets a real master and gets soundly beaten. He goes back to Simon Yuen with the girl. Simon cannot teach him the cripple fist because he is not a cripple yet Simon knows it and is not a cripple. Maybe something is lost in the translation. Li Yi-Min has excellent acrobatic skills. The final fight certainly demonstrated them. Lo Lieh? I blinked and missed him. Simon&#39;s martial arts scenes are all stunt doubled and when he is facing the camera and doing a few moves they are slow and feeble. He was a great martial artist and movie favorite but in the end time always wins. Wei Pin-Ao has an unforgettable face and has been in over 100 movies of many genres. I have never found much about his biography other than while acting with Bruce Lee they became close friends. This movie is probably the only one where he has fight scenes and they are comedic of course. This sort of thing is only suitable for fans of the genre who take pleasure in a low budget average kung fu movie from the 1970s.

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Drunken Arts and Crippled Fist

A straightforward DRUNKEN MASTER copy that must have been knocked out in record time given the speed at which it was released after the Jackie Chan hit. This one sees the welcome return of &#39;Sam Seed&#39;, aka Yuen Siu Tin, playing EXACTLY the same role as he did in the Chan movie. The film opens with Yuen performing various martial arts training skills before moving quickly into the main plot in the first few minutes. The film&#39;s protagonist is played by Li Yi-Min as a straight Jackie Chan clone although sadly he&#39;s neither as skilled or as funny as Chan himself. He trains for years under Sam Seed&#39;s training regime (and some of the stuff he has to do as a kid is eye-watering) before becoming a journeyman crusader, travelling the locality to look for work and combat evil. Inevitably our hero ends up battling some thuggish goons (including one &#39;Iron Head&#39;) who get soundly beaten before complaining to their master. Li Yi-Min continues to beat the bad guys until he comes up against one who beats him in turn. At this point he goes crawling back to his master for further training, but unfortunately for him the Crippled Fist technique may only be taught to the disabled. The rest of the plot plays out from there, and there&#39;s never too much to concern you with this straightforward comedy action flick. Sam Seed is on top form but gets too little screen time while the bad guys overact for all their worth. A cross-dressing female fighter is thrown into the mix and there&#39;s a small turn from Lo Lieh. The big fight climax is acceptable but not as exciting as some, although the film as a whole is watchable.

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Drunken Arts and Crippled Fist

Average low budget martial arts movie for fans only

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