The Fearless Hyena

The Fearless Hyena
File:Fearlesshyena.jpg Hong Kong DVD cover
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
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xiǎo quán guài zhào Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Siu3 kyun4 gwaai3 ziu1

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:

• Revenge of the Dragon (USA video title)
• Superfighter 3 (West Germany video title)
• The Shadowman (West Germany video title)

Plot

Hing 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

• Jackie Chan as Hing Lung
• James Tien as Grandfather
• Dean Shek as The Coffin Seller
• Chan Wai-lau asUnicorn
• Yam Sai-koon as Yen Chuen-wong
• Lee Kwan as Tee Cha
• Rocky Cheng as "The Willow Knife" Bar Tar
• Chiang Chih-ping
• Chu Siu-wa
• Eagle Han-ying as Chin Wa-li
• Hp Hing-nam
• Chui Yuen
• Wong Ken-mei
• Kim Sae-ok
• Kuo Nai-hua
• Chang Ma
• Peng Kong
• Wong Yiu
• Man Lee-pang
• Wong CHi-seng

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

• Jackie Chan filmography
• List of films in the public domain

External links

• Fearless Hyena at Hong Kong Cinemagic
• Fearless Hyena at IMDb
• The Fearless Hyena at AllMovie