DRUNKEN MASTER (dvd) *NEW* region free and 12 similar items

Brand new factory sealed dvd Taiwan import with bi-lingual packaging appears to be the English dubbed widescreen version. Has a couple of tiny endentations on the cover and a little score on the bottom right corner. Out Of Print (OOP) in all formats domestically. Stands as one of the sleekest, flat-out, action-filled kungfu comedies. But quantity of action is not enough. Quality of action was the object here, and while Jackie Chan's character, "Naughty Panther", simply moves from one fight to another, the imagination that went into creating the complex situations is staggering. Although essentially one long action sequence (the outlandish training scenes can be considered part of the action), the movie manages to build until the battle between a Tiger Claw hired killer and the Naughty Panther. Panther is such a hopeless brawler that his father sends him to his skilled tutor, a drunken old wino in the woods played by Simon Yuen (at the tender age of sixty-six he achieved the stardom that had eluded him throughout his fourty-five year career with this role). Half the time Panther is being trained/tortured. The other half he tries to escape but is always outwitted by the DRUNKEN MASTER who teaches him the "Eight Drunken Fairies" -- a style that requires ample portions of alcohol. Chan "graduates" from the training part and moves into the kata sequence, where he shows the audience what he has learned. This is always the lead-in to the climax. Here, he must save his father from a hired killer. He does it by inventing a new combination of the Eight Fairies on the spot.