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Director: Yuen Woo-ping

Starring: Jackie Chan, Yuen Siu Tien, Hwang Jang Lee

Productor: Ng See-Yuen, Chen Chuan

Written by: Ng See-Yuen, Choi Gai-gwong, Tsai Chi-kuang

Music: Chou Fu-liang

Country: Hong Kong

Release date: March 1, 1978

Running time: 98 minutes

It was the directorial debut of Yuen Woo-ping, who has since gained international stardom as the action choreographer for films such as Iron Monkey, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Matrix series and Kill Bill.

The film starred Jackie Chan, Hwang Jang Lee and Yuen Woo-ping's real life father, Yuen Siu Tien. Straight after this film, Yuen Woo-ping directed Drunken Master. Released in the same year, it also starred Jackie Chan, Hwang Jang Lee and Yuen Siu Tien, and followed a similar plot.

The film is also known by the title Snaky Monkey.

PLOT

Chien Fu (played by Jackie Chan), an orphan adopted by a kung-fu school, is overworked as their janitor and abused by the kung fu teachers as a walking punching-bag. Chien befriends an old beggar (Yuen Siu Tien) by offering him a meal and a place to stay. Unknown to Chien, the old beggar is actually the last surviving master of the Snake-style of kung fu. The old man is on the run from the Eagle Claw clan, which is viciously killing off all of the rival Snake-style kung fu masters. Seeing that Chien is being abused, the old man teaches Chien the footwork of snake style which enables one to avoid an opponent's attacks.

_{References: Wikipedia, Snake in the eagle's shadow}

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