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Snake in the Eagle's Shadow(Movie, 1978)

Original title: "蛇形刁手" (Chinese (Cantonese)/CN)
PG
| 1h 38min | Genres: Action, Comedy
Snake in the Eagle's ShadowRating: 3.6/5 (with 132132 votes)
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (Chinese: 蛇形刁手) is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts action comedy film directed by Yuen Woo-ping in his directorial debut. It stars Jackie Chan, Hwang Jang-lee, and Yuen Woo-ping's real life father, Yuen Siu-tien. The film's plot is about Chien Fu (Jackie Chan), an orphan who is bullied at a kung fu school, meeting an old beggar, Pai Cheng-tien (Yuen Siu-tien), who becomes his sifu (teacher) and trains him in Snake Kung Fu. Right after this film, Yuen Woo-ping directed Drunken Master, released in the same year, which also starred ()
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About Snake in the Eagle's Shadow

Everyone abuses and humiliates a downtrodden orphan until he befriends an old man, who turns out to be the last master of the snake fist fighting style. Jackie becomes the old man's student and finds himself in battle with the master of the eagle's claw style, who has vowed to destroy the snake fist clan.

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Additional Information

Production country: Hong Kong
Plays in: Guangdong
Original language: Chinese (Cantonese) (CN)
Spoken languages: Chinese (Cantonese) (CN)
Translated into 21 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 11/05/1982 (World premiere: 03/01/1978)
Director: Yuen Woo-ping
Producer: Ng See-yuen, Chen Chuan
Screenwriter: Ng See-yuen, Lung Hsiao, Clifford Choi Kai-kwong
Film Editor: Poon Hung
Director of Photography: Cheung Hoi
Composer: Stanley Chow Fook-Leung
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Punhos de serpente - 1978"
"蛇形刁手"
"Škola hada"
"L'ombre du serpent"
"Le Chinois se déchaîne - 1978"
"Le Chinois se déchaîne (1978)"
"Se Ying Diu Sau"
"スネーキーモンキー 蛇拳"
"Hou Je Botten Bij Elkaar"
"Bruce vs. Snake in Eagle's Shadow"
"Eagle's Shadow"
"Eagles Shadow"
"La serpiente a la sombra del águila"
"Le chinois se déchaine"
"She xing diao shou"
"Snake and the Eagle's Shadow"
"Snake and the Eagles Shadow"
"Snake in the Eagles Shadow"
Keywords: beggar, martial arts

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