The Fearless Hyena

The Fearless Hyena

Hong Kong DVD cover
Traditional 笑拳怪招
Simplified 笑拳怪招
Mandarin Xiǎo Quán Guài Zhào
Cantonese Siu3 Kyun4 Gwaai3 Ziu1
Directed by Jackie Chan
Kenneth Tsang
Produced by Hsu Li-hwa
Written by Jackie Chan
Kenneth Tsang
Starring Jackie Chan
James Tien
Dean Shek
Music by Frankie Chan
Chen Hsua-chi
Cinematography Chen Yung-shu
Edited by Liang Yung-tsan
Production
company
Goodyear Movie Company
Distributed by Lung Cheung Company Limited
Release dates
  • 17 February 1979 (1979-02-17)
Running time
 97 minutes
Country Hong Kong
Language Cantonese
Box office HK$5,445,535
The Fearless Hyena
Traditional Chinese 笑拳怪招
Simplified Chinese 笑拳怪招

The Fearless Hyena is a 1979 Hong Kong kung fu film directed by and starring Jackie Chan. The film was co-directed by Kenneth Tsang.

The film has been released on several alternative titles internationally, including:

Plot

Sing Lung (Jackie Chan) is a youngster, living in a remote village with his grandfather, kung fu master Chen Peng-fei (James Tien). Lung does not take his training seriously enough, he gambles, and he gets into fights which lead him to display the skills his grandfather has told him he must keep secret.

Lung briefly finds employment selling coffins, working for an unscrupulous proprietor (Dean Shek), who even stoops to selling second-hand coffins. Lung is fired when he accidentally traps his boss in one of the coffins. After making his escape, he runs into three thugs he'd beaten up earlier, who ask him to teach them kung fu. Lung meets their sifu, Tee Cha (Lee Kwan), the unskilled leader of the Everything Clan. Master Tee offers Lung a lucrative job training his students and fighting against the top fighters from rival schools. This boosts the reputation of the school and of the scheming Master Tee. However, Lung makes the mistake of naming the school under the Sien Yi clan name. This comes to the attention of evil kung fu master Yen Chuen-wong (Yam Sai-kwoon), who finds and kills Lung's grandfather. But, Lung eventually takes revenge for his grandfather's murder after undergoing rigorous training from The Unicorn (Chan Wai-lau).

Cast

Fight scenes

Fearless Hyena features several unusual fight scenes, including a chopsticks duel, Hing Lung fighting disguised as a cross-eyed mentally retarded man, disguised as a woman, and using "Emotional Kung-Fu", a style that involves vividly displaying the emotions of anger, sorrow, joy and happiness to find the opponent's weakness thus fighting whilst crying or laughing.

Box office

The film grossed a HK$5,445,535 at the Hong Kong box office.

See also

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