Drunken Master 1978  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action / Comedy
aka: Drunken Monkey in the Tiger's Eyes
Director: Yuen Woo-ping
Cast: Jackie Chan, Siu Tien Yuen, Hwang Jang Lee, Dean Shek, Hsu Hsia, Lin Ying, Lin Chiao, Shih Fu Tsai, Chiang Chin, Shih Kien, Casanova Wong, Ging Man Fung, Linda Lin, Chen Tien Loong, Shun-Yee Yuen
In this film, Jackie Chan became a worldwide star via his role of Wong Fei-Hung–a young, spoiled kung fu student who uses what he has learned from kung fu master Sam Seed (Siu Teun Yuen) to bring down the assassin hired to kill his father. Time has not taken its toll on this film; it remains a classic in the martial arts arena.
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 Game of Death 1978  R, 102 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
aka: Bruce Lee's Game of Death
Director: Robert Clouse
Cast: Bruce Lee, Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Hugh O'Brian, Colleen Camp, Chuck Norris, Robert Wall, Mel Novak, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hwang Jang Lee, James Tien, Russell Cawthorne
Bruce Lee takes on the role of tracking down the mobsters in this film. (Lee died during filming in 1973, and the film was completed five years later.) Highlight: last half hour, which contains great fight scenes as Lee fights the bad guys–one by one.
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Game of Death 2 1981  R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
aka: Tower of Death
The New Game of Death
Director: Ng See Yuen
Cast: Bruce Lee, Kim Tai Chung, Lee Hoi San, Miranda Austin, Roy Chiao, Casanova Wong, Roy Horan, Hwang Jang Lee
Eight years after Bruce Lee's death, archival footage of his amazing martial arts feats are featured (at least in the first half of the film) with a double (Kim Tai Chung) being used in most of the scenes. Billy (Bruce Lee/Kim Tai Chung) is killed while attending a friend's funeral, and his brother tracks down those responsible.
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Snake in Eagle's Shadow 1978 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
Director: Yuen Woo-ping
Cast: Simon Yuen, Jackie Chan, Chan Lung, Fung Hark-On, Roy Horan, Hwang Jang Lee, Dean Shek, Wong Ching-lei
This early Jackie Chan film shows why he became so popular using his comedy and graceful stunts. Jackie plays a young student at a martial arts school in Hong Kong. When he saves an old man from an ambush by the evil clan that has developed a deadly new style of fighting, the man teaches Jackie the lethal Snake Fist style of fighting. Now Jackie can stand up to the rival gang.
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| 1. Drunken Master (1978)
aka: Drunken Monkey in the Tiger's Eyes
2. Game of Death (1978)
aka: Bruce Lee's Game of Death
3. Game of Death 2 (1981)
aka: Tower of Death
aka: The New Game of Death
4. Shaolin Wooden Men (1976)
5. Snake in Eagle's Shadow (1978)
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