Half a Loaf of Kung Fu(Movie, 1978)

Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (Chinese: 一招半式闖江湖) is a 1978 Hong Kong action comedy martial arts film directed by Chen Chi-hwa and written by Jackie Chan, who also starred in the lead role. The film co-stars Dean Shek and James Tien. The film was released in Hong Kong on 1 July 1978. Chan plays a bumbling kung fu student who becomes involved in a series of adventures in one of his first forays into the kung fu acrobatic slapstick comedy style that would become his signature. In the film, the martial arts student is caught spying on an evil witch. He is later attacked by the witch, but is rescued by his next kung fu teacher.The film is a parody of the stoic depictions of martial artists in "serious" martial arts films. ()