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The Magnificent Butcher(Movie, 1979)

Original title: "林世榮" (Chinese (Cantonese)/CN)
1h 48min | Genres: Action, Comedy
The Magnificent ButcherRating: 3.5/5 (with 3232 votes)
The Magnificent Butcher (Chinese: 林世榮) is a 1979 Hong Kong martial arts comedy film directed by Yuen Woo-ping, and starring Sammo Hung, Kwan Tak-hing, Yuen Biao, and Wei Pai. The film is based on the story of Lam Sai-wing, one of the students of the legendary Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung. Hung plays "Butcher" Lam Sai-wing and Kwan Tak-hing plays Wong Fei-hung, a role he had played before in over 70 films. The film also features Hung's opera "brother" Yuen Biao as another of Wong's students, Leung Foon, a role he would reprise years later in the film Once Upon a Time in China along with Jet Li. The Magnificent Butcher was produced as Hung's attempt to duplicate the success of Yuen's 1978 martial arts action comedy film Drunken Master, which also f... ()
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About The Magnificent Butcher

A plump butcher student of Wong Fei Hung, Lam Sai-Wing gets into trouble with a rival kung-fu school known as Five Dragons. He is accused of raping the Head of that school's goddaughter and killing his son. Now Ko, the Head of Five Dragons, wants revenge.

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[Trailer] 林世榮 (The Magnificent Butcher) - Restored Version(Trailer, 4:30)

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Additional Information

Production country: Hong Kong
Original language: Chinese (Cantonese) (CN)
Spoken languages: Chinese (Cantonese) (CN), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Translated into 15 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 12/19/1979
Cast: Sammo Hung, Kwan Tak-hing, Yuen Biao, Tsang Choh-lam
Producer: Raymond Chow
Composer: Frankie Chan
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Lam Sai Wing"
"Lin Shi Rong"
"林世榮"

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