Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1978)
- Original title
- 招半式闖江湖
- Directed by
- Chi-Hwa Chen
- Genre
- slapstick, martial arts film
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 91 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A clumsy kung fu student gets tangled up with an evil witch and a series of comedic mishaps. It's a parody that mocks the serious martial arts movies of the time.
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What happens
Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (Chinese: 一招半式闖江湖) is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Chen Chi-hwa, and starring Jackie Chan, who also wrote the screenplay with Tang Ming-chi. The film co-stars Dean Shek, James Tien, Doris Lung, and Wu Ma. The film was released theatrically 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Heroes of the East (1978)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.