Is there a Drunken Master 3?

Drunken Master III is a 1994 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Lau Kar-leung and starring Andy Lau, Michelle Reis, Willie Chi, Simon Yam, Lau Kar-leung, Adam Cheng and Gordon Liu.

Is Jackie Chan in Drunken Master 3?

Humorous action. Nice tricks and not-too-bad fighting scenes. But theres no Jackie Chan around... hes the real drunken master.

How old was Jackie Chan in Drunken Master 1?

Chan was 40 when The Legend of the Drunken Master was made, and although he is still in superb shape, he is reaching the age when he might want to produce and direct these movies instead of starring in them.

How many Drunken Master movies are there

If you love martial arts films, then the 1978 film "Drunken Master" should be on your watchlist. The film is all-time martial arts classic, starring Jackie Chan as Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-Hung. It put Jackie Chan on the map in Asia, the first step towards him becoming the superstar he is today.

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Keeping the kids in mind
There's no true Drunken Master III
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Drunken Master II provides examples of:
Is there a Drunken Master 3?
Is Drunken Master 2 a sequel?
Is Jackie Chan in Drunken Master 3?
How old was Jackie Chan in Drunken Master 1?

"Drunken Master" was the second collaboration between Chan and director Yuen Woo-ping, following "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow," which released earlier that year. It's credited with not only popularizing the Drunken Boxing style of Chinese martial arts, it's also one of the earliest showcases of Chan's specific flavor of action comedy. The popularity of "Drunken Master" and his subsequent films saw Chan taking on the role of creative lead for "Drunken Master II," where he was able to fix some of the issues he had with the original's overall presentation.

Woo-ping would follow this success with many other classics, including "Iron Monkey" and "Tai Chi Master," before finding international success as the action choreographer of "The Matrix" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." "Drunken Master" not only blew up the careers of two veterans in action filmmaking, it also inspired countless other movies, games, and television shows.

Keeping the kids in mind

Trope Namer, of course.

Everyone Has Standards: While Fei-Hong's aunt humiliates him by revealing to his father that he made advances on his own cousin, Wong Kei-Ying is understandably pissed off. However, when he's ready to attack him, she immediately stops him, shocked that Kei-Ying that he would actually kill his own son.

Evil Virtues: Yan Ti San/Thunderleg is a killer for hire. Off the clock he is an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy par excellence, but once he is hired, he is a Consummate Professional; he cannot be bribed or rehired by the current target to kill his current client, and he will not relent until his target is dead.

Fatal Flaw: Fei-Hung is not nearly as clever as he thinks himself to be, and he is constantly slacking off from training. This goes beyond being merely Brilliant, but Lazy however, as he never bothers to learn the eighth form of Drunken Boxing ("Drunken Miss Ho" which he feels is too feminine to work in a fight) and he has to make up his own eighth form in the final fight to keep from getting killed. He gets over this hangup by the second film, where he uses the form to psych opponents out.

Hard Head: Fei-Hung fights a thug who specializes in using his head to fight. While it can break wood easily, his head isn't hard enough for a hammer, which gives him Cranial Eruptions.

I Am Not Left-Handed: Yan Ti San is most likely called Thunderleg in the English dub because he relies heavily on a slower fighting style that emphasizes power over speed, punctuated with lethal kicks. In the final fight with Fei-Hung, he reveals a hitherto-unseen style; The Shadowless Hand, a hand-based style that revolves around multiple rapid feints and finger flicks at an opponent's eyes, disorentating them, and hiding strikes behind a hand held close to the eyes to block their vision.

I Have No Son!: Subverted. In the UK dub, after hearing all of Fei-Hung's misdeeds, his father, Kei-Ying, is understandably disgusted with his son and verbally disowns him. However, he later decides to have Fei-Hung disciplined by Beggar So. By the end of the film, the two manage to reconcile.

My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours: One reason Fei-Hung returns to Beggar-So and takes his training more seriously is his defeat at the hands of another martial artist, Yan Ti San. (Thunderleg, in the English dub)

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: When Freddy finds a bully picking on an old man and his son, he's quick to defend them and gives the bully a good thrashing… only to learn that he's the son of his town's most influential man, which gets him into even deeper trouble with his father.

Not Worth Killing: Even though he could kill him easily, Yan Ti San expresses that killing Fei-Hung would just hurt his reputation. Naturally, this prompts Fei-Hung to resume his training with Beggar So to become a better fighter.

Obvious Stunt Double: Whenever Beggar-So does anything that requires fast movements or acrobatics, his hair covers his face and he becomes skinnier. His actor, Siu Tin Yuen, is doubled by his sons, Cheung-Yan Yuen and director Yuen Woo-Ping, for those shots.

Old Master: Beggar-So is exactly the kind of wandering master one wouldn't expect to be a master. He's also usually drunk.

Out-Gambitted: When Fei-Hung tried to walk out of the restaurant without paying, he attempted the old "that old guy over there's paying" trick. "That old guy over there" just happened to be the owner of the restaurant. Worse, Fei-hung claimed the guy was his father. Which prompted the head waiter to ask "You have more than one father?". The head waiter just happened to be the son of the owner and added "You must be a bastard, then". Obviously, the owner and his family had seen this trick before and don't mind giving so much food away for free if it means they get to teach the perpetrator a lesson.

Fei-Hung's luck at gambits extends to his tutelage under Beggar So; See below.

Pec Flex: The restaurant bouncer, Iron Gorilla, enjoys using this technique.

Shell Game: Beggar So stops to gamble against Rat the Iron Headed Bullet. Rat tries to run a rigged shell game, and is easily caught.

Signature Move: Yan Ti San's double-legged flying kick, which he uses to finish off his opponents.

Spiritual Successor: To Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, sharing the same actors for Fei-Hung, Yan Ti San, and Beggar-So in very similar roles. Fei-Hung even uses Snake Kung Fu in a few fights.

Surprise Incest: Fei-Hung tries to hit on a girl that visits his town, only to be attacked by her mother. He later learns that the girl is his cousin and that he fought his aunt.

Training from Hell: The usual methods apply here, like scooping water from a bucket with teacups only to fill another bucket while upside down. It's worth noting that the training wouldn't be so hellish if Fei-Hung wasn't trying to weasel his way out of it. In the teacups instance, he makes to fill the bucket directly with the other while Beggar So is taking a nap. However, So is one step ahead of him and when Fei-Hung fakes being tired and announces that he's completed his task, So tells him to now empty that bucket out with teacups roughly the size of shot glasses.

Trash Talk: Yan Ti San is a master of this.

The Trickster: Fei-Hung is very sneaky, one reason why he's in enough trouble to be sent away for special training.

Trickster Mentor: Beggar-So is equally sneaky, finding interesting ways to keep Fei-Hung from running away from his (often brutal) training.

Trope Codifier: For the Drunken Master and Hong Kong Martial Arts Movie, whose tropes film lovingly reproduces and creates the perfect product.

Worf Had the Flu: As stated above, Drunken Boxing requires one to be legitimately intoxicated. The one time in the film Beggar So is forced to fight sober (because Fei-Hung spent the money on fine food and wine for himself rather than a booze run and filled So's flask with water instead once he noticed he had drank most of it himself,) he is rapidly outclassed. To be fair though, the movie does take pains to show that it is not the lack of alcohol that is the problem, but Beggar So's shakes as he is coming down from his near constant buzz.

Worthy Opponent: When Fei-Hung demonstrates his drunken boxing, Yan Ti San actually expresses approval and compliments his new technique.

Drunken Master II provides examples of:

Always Someone Better: For how unstoppable Fei-Hong is when drunk, his father Kei-ying is the only one who can counter every one of his attacks and subdue him.
Awesome, but Impractical: Fei-Hong fights with a massive bamboo that starts splintering from the impact into a mess of serrated edges that can cause genuine harm, not just to opponents but the person holding it. Long story short, you don't want to try this at home.
Bad Boss: Anyone holding a position at the foundry, since they're putting all the workers through the grinder and just using them to cover a smuggling syndicate.
The Berserker: Fei Hong on kerosine becomes an absolute beast that can plough right through your best hits and wreck you like a freight train. He also retains all of his skill and agility but none of his compassion, so good luck surviving his onslaught.
Bowdlerize: International releases of the movie cut out a scene at the end of the movie where Fei-Hung pretends to be mentally retarded and passing it off as a result of alcohol poisoning. Unfortunately, some cuts go so far as end the movie right after the final fight.
Booze-Based Buff: The main character's a drunken boxer, so this is a given. Taken up to eleven during the final battle when Fei-Hong decides to booze up with industrial-grade alcohol from a foundry.
Booze Flamethrower: What happens when Fei-Hong spits a mouthful of industrial alcohol at his foe, who's coming at Fei-Hong with a superheated metal rod. When he tries this again, he accidentally chokes on alcohol, but discovers its intoxicating properties.
The Cameo: Bill Tung, Jackie's longtime costar from the Police Story movies, appears at the end as a police chief.
Combat Hand Fan: In the second movie, Fei-Hung uses one to great effect against a giant mook. The saying written on it also inspired him to use a Booze-Based Buff to defeat the Big Bad and The Dragon.
Combat Pragmatist: Fei-Hong is not above kicking dirt in his opponents' faces, or whipping them with serrated splintered bamboo. The bad guys, being bad guys, naturally take it further by dropping coal tippers and lit alcohol on him in the finale.
Continuity Nod: The return of the Eight Drunken Gods style, down to the whole thing with treating Lady Ho as the Joke Character.
Convection Shmonvection: All over the place in the final battle in the foundry. And those fires are all real!
Epic Flail: One of the thugs in the foundry fight lights a chain on fire, and uses it on Fei-Hong.
Everyone Has Standards: The Dragon actually looks concerned when he notices that Fei-Hong has started chugging industrial alcohol in the finale.
Evil Brit: The villains of the sequel, who steal Chinese artifacts to the British Museum of Art. Interestingly, the English dub uses American voice actors for good Chinese characters (save Jackie Chan himself) while using a British voice actors for a villainous Chinese character.
Eye Scream: Part of the final fight involves The Dragon shoving his square jaw into Fei-Hong's eyes, after which Fei-Hong shoves his nose into the bugger's eyes. There's no lasting damage, but unless you've trained in blindfolded boxing or something, you've got a problem.
- Fei-Hong's increasing comfort with the Drunken Miss Ho form since the first film also results in an expanded arsenal of moves. His use of the form now includes a bunch of these, again used to throw opponents off of their pace, and occasionally even fakes them out with one before striking them elsewhere.
Fake Pregnancy: Seemingly Ling does this to distract the father from beating Fei-Hung and she reacts nervously whenever her husband refers to her supposed pregnancy. It turns out she really was pregnant and simply knew when to time the news to her advantage.

Is there a Drunken Master 3?

Drunken Master III is a 1994 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Lau Kar-leung and starring Andy Lau, Michelle Reis, Willie Chi, Simon Yam, Lau Kar-leung, Adam Cheng and Gordon Liu.

Is Drunken Master 2 a sequel?

Drunken Master II

Is Jackie Chan in Drunken Master 3?

Humorous action. Nice tricks and not-too-bad fighting scenes. But there's no Jackie Chan around... he's the real drunken master.

How old was Jackie Chan in Drunken Master 1?

Chan was 40 when "The Legend of the Drunken Master" was made, and although he is still in superb shape, he is reaching the age when he might want to produce and direct these movies instead of starring in them.