The Fearless Hyena
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| Directed by | Jackie Chan Kenneth Tsang |
| Written by | Jackie Chan Kenneth Tsang |
| Produced by | Hsu Li-hwa |
| Starring | Jackie Chan James Tien Dean Shek |
| Cinematography | Chen Yung-shu |
| Edited by | Liang Yung-tsan |
| Music by | Frankie Chan Chen Hsua-chi |
Production company | Goodyear Movie Company |
| Distributed by | Lung Cheung Company Limited |
Release date |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | HK$5,445,535 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 笑拳怪招 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 笑拳怪招 | ||||||||||
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The Fearless Hyena is a 1979 Hong Kong kung fu film directed by and starring Jackie Chan. The film was co-directed by Kenneth Tsang.
The film has been released on several alternative titles internationally, including:
- Revenge of the Dragon (USA video title)
- Superfighter 3 (West Germany video title)
- The Shadowman (West Germany video title)
Plot
Sing Lung (Jackie Chan) is a youngster, living in a remote village with his grandfather, kung fu master Chen Peng-fei (James Tien). Lung does not take his training seriously enough, he gambles, and he gets into fights which lead him to display the skills his grandfather has told him he must keep secret.
Lung briefly finds employment selling coffins, working for an unscrupulous proprietor (Dean Shek), who even stoops to selling second-hand coffins. Lung is fired when he accidentally traps his boss in one of the coffins. After making his escape, he runs into three thugs he'd beaten up earlier, who ask him to teach them kung fu. Lung meets their sifu, Tee Cha (Lee Kwan), the unskilled leader of the Everything Clan. Master Tee offers Lung a lucrative job training his students and fighting against the top fighters from rival schools. This boosts the reputation of the school and of the scheming Master Tee. However, Lung makes the mistake of naming the school under the Sien Yi clan name. This comes to the attention of evil kung fu master Yen Chuen-wong (Yam Sai-kwoon), who finds and kills Lung's grandfather. But, Lung eventually takes revenge for his grandfather's murder after undergoing rigorous training from The Unicorn (Chan Wai-lau).
Cast
- Jackie Chan as Shing Lung
- James Tien as Grandfather / Cheng Feng-pei
- Dean Shek as The Coffin Seller
- Chan Wai-lau as Unicorn
- Yam Sai-koon as Yen Chuen-wong
- Lee Kwan as Tee Cha
- Rocky Cheng as "The Willow Knife" Bar Tar
- Chiang Chih-ping
- Chu Siu-wa
- Eagle Han-ying as Chin Wa-li
- Hp Hing-nam
- Chui Yuen
- Wong Ken-mei
- Kim Sae-ok
- Kuo Nai-hua
- Alan Chui Chung-San
- Chang Ma
- Peng Kong
- Wong Yiu
- Man Lee-pang
- Wong Chi-seng
- Wang Jia En
Fight scenes
Fearless Hyena features several unusual fight scenes, including a chopsticks duel, Hing Lung fighting disguised as a cross-eyed mentally retarded 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.
Box office
The film grossed a HK$5,445,535 at the Hong Kong box office.[citation needed]
See also
External links
- Fearless Hyena at Hong Kong Cinemagic
- Fearless Hyena at IMDb
- The Fearless Hyena at AllMovie