Directed by Yuen Woo-ping • 1981 • Hong Kong
Starring Yuen Biao, Bryan Leung Kar-yan, Kwan Tak-hing
Everything that made 1980s Hong Kong action cinema such a blast—the furious fights, bursts of wild comedy, and larger-than-life performances—is cranked up to eleven in this audacious cult classic directed by legendary martial-arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping (DRUNKEN MASTER; CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON). Disguised in fearsome face paint, a psychotic fugitive killer known as White Tiger (Yuen Shun-yee) hides out among a theater troupe. When he murders the friend of cowardly laundry man Mousy (Yuen Biao), the latter must overcome his timidity to take revenge. An almost schizophrenic mishmash of slapstick, horror, mystery, and martial-arts mayhem succeeds miraculously thanks to its total commitment to its own craziness.
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