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Kung Fu Hustle

Country: Hong Kong | China, Language: Cantonese | Mandarin, 95 mins

Original Title

Kung Fu
  • Director: Stephen Chow
  • Writer: Stephen Chow; Xin Huo
  • Producer: Bill Borden; Wellson Chin

CGiii Comment

The [original] packaging and title are awful...just goes to show: Never judge a book...by neither the cover nor the title!

This stunningly choreographed, beautifully realised work of art should have film-makers on their knees screaming how unworthy they all are - look at the camera work, it is astounding.

Chow, expertly, pokes fun at western fashion, at American kung fu, at cartoons, at every Hollywood film - be it the superhero or gangster genres or the glut of Stiller, Sandler dismally-immature-comedies.

Even Tarantino pales, he is a poor man's Chow - his inventiveness, imagination and eye for detail are all simply without peerage.

Chow wrote, directed and starred ' NO EGO ' just an unmatched sublime talent and a sense of camp that would put a shrieking queen into an early but fabulously decorated grave.

A genuine masterpiece.

Hollywood is in trouble.

Without a doubt, China is the place for computer-generated imagery.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves in a town ruled by the Axe Gang, Sing who desperately wants to become a member. He stumbles into a slum ruled by eccentric landlords who turns out to be the greatest kung-fu masters in disguise. Sing's actions eventually cause the Axe Gang and the slumlords to engage in an explosive kung-fu battle. Only one side will win and only one hero will emerge as the greatest kung-fu master of all.

Cast & Characters

Stephen Chow as Sing;
Xiaogang Feng as Crocodile Gang Boss;
Wah Yuen as Landlord;
Zhi Hua Dong as Donut;
Kwok-Kwan Chan as Brother Sum;
Chi Chung Lam as Bone;
Siu-Lung Leung as The Beast;
Qiu Yuen as Landlady;
Kai Man Tin as Axe Gang Advisor;
Kang Xi Jia as Harpist #1;
Hak On Fung as Harpist #2;
Shengyi Huang as Fong;
Suet Lam as Axe Gang Vice General;
Cheung-Yan Yuen as Beggar;
Chi Ling Chiu as Tailor