Shaolin Popey (1994)

Original title

笑林小子

Directed by

Chu Yen-ping

Genre

martial arts film

Country

Taiwan

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy helps his older brother try to win the affection of a girl. The film is a youth comedy featuring a mix of teen stars, a child comedian, and a kung fu prodigy.

lightheartedplayfulenergeticromanticfunnyyouthfulupbeat

What happens

Shaolin Popey (Chinese: 笑林小子; released in the Philippines as Little Shaolin) is a 1994 Taiwanese kung fu comedy film directed by Kevin Chu. The movie premiere was on 21 July 1994. It is starred Lin Zhiying, Xu Ruoxuan, Hao Shaowen, Shi Xiaolong, and Zhang Zhenyue. Lin Zhiying and Zhang Zhenyue also sang. The movie tells the story of a young boy who helps his older brother to win the love of a girl. It is a youth comedy. The hero celebrity is Lin Zhiying, little comedian Jimmy Hao Shao Wen, the mainland kung fu boy Shi Xiaolong. Singer Zhang Zhenyue and Taiwan's new pure girl Xu Ruoxuan have become big highlights of the film, and the performance of Hong Kong stars Xu Haoying, Yuan Qiong Dan, Qin Pei can not be ignored. The movie itself has two related film spin-offs, Messy Temple (笑林小子2之新烏龍院) and Super Mischieves (新烏龍院2之無敵反鬥星). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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