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Drunken Tai Chi is a Hongkongais film of genre Martial arts directed by Yuen Woo-ping released in USA on 31 may 1984 with Donnie Yen
Drunken Tai Chi (1984)
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Add to a movie listDrunken Tai Chi is a 1984 Hong Kong martial arts action film directed by Yuen Woo Ping and starring Donnie Yen in his first major role. Donnie Yen had signed a four-film contract after winning an open talent search hosted by Yuen Woo Ping, and "Drunken Tai Chi" was one of the contracted films. "Drunken Tai Chi" was the last film in its distinctive genre of kung fu comedy.
The title "Drunken Tai Chi" is misleading. The original title can also be translated as "Laughing Tai Chi." Both "Drunken" and "Laughing" refer to the character of the wine-loving, comedic Tai Chi master played by Yuen Cheung-Yan, and not to the Tai Chi style itself.
Synopsis
Cheng Do (Donnie Yen) is the well-educated younger son of an unpleasant, miserly salt baron who pours attention on Cheng, grooming him to be a scholar, and ignores his hardworking elder son (Yuen Yat Chor). The brothers have a loving relationship with each other, despite some strain from their father's unequal treatment of them. Both brothers are skilled in external martial arts, though their father disapproves of Cheng practicing kung fu when he should be studying.Actors
Donnie Yen
(Chan Chuen Chung)
Yuen Cheung-Yan
(Puppetteer)
Lydia Shum
(Fatty)
Lee Kwan
(Chin Do's father (uncredited))
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