Drunken Master
Drunken Master is a 1978 film from Hong Kong, directed by Yuen Woo-ping, running 110 minutes. reelscum files it under martial arts.
- Year
- 1978 · 1970s films
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Director
- Yuen Woo-ping
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- canon (13/100)
- Also known as
- Tráfico de Arte
Defined in the glossary: Martial arts
Jackie Chan finds the formula: comedy, pain, and visible competence.
Jackie Chan finds the formula that would make him the biggest star in the world. A young troublemaker is put through brutal training by a legendary drunken master and learns the drunken-boxing style in time to face a killer. It fuses genuine martial-arts skill with physical comedy in a way nobody had quite nailed before.
Chan's willingness to take real punishment for a laugh is already fully present, and the training sequences are both funny and jaw-dropping. It reinvented the kung fu film as comedy without cheapening the fighting.
The blueprint for Chan's entire career, and still one of his best.
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