The Legend of Drunken Master

Name: The Legend of Drunken Master
Director: Kar-leung Lau
Released: 1994

Kar-leung Lau

martial arts cultural preservation father-son conflict colonial resistance drunken boxing

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Synopsis

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-Hong must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

Cinema Atlas Connection

We wanted to combine the futuristic elements with a very kinetic, very real martial arts aesthetic. And the movies we really loved were things like Drunken Master II, Jackie Chan's work, the films of Tsui Hark and John Woo. So when we came to Yuen Woo-ping, we said, 'We love the action in these films, and we want to do that, but in a completely different environment.'

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This Film Influenced

→ The Matrix (1999)