Drunken Tai Chi
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Drunken Tai Chi is a martial arts film directed by Yuen Woo Ping, starring Donnie Yen.
[edit] Plot
Donnie Yen plays the well-educated son of an unpleasant, miserly salt baron who pours attention on Yen and ignores his hardworking son (Yuen Yat Chor). Yen is a constant thorn in the side for a local bully and one night, the two brothers are ambushed by the bully and his cohorts. However, in a scintillating display, the brothers conquer the bully, but inadvertently turn him into a gibbering wreck. His nobleman father decides to hire a powerful, yet mute hitman who finds one of the brothers and kills him and his father. Yen manages to avoid the killer, but is now homeless and wanders the streets in search of a new home. When Yen 'helps' a puppeteer (Cheung-Yan Yuen), but ruins his puppet booth, Yen is marched back to the old man's home and told to work to pay-off the cost of the damage. After time, Yen befriends the puppeteer and his rotund wife and informing them of his traumatic past. When the killer severely beats Yen, his new family encourage him to learn Tai-Chi in order to counter the villain's hard style. With intensive Tai-Chi training complete, Yen faces the powerful assassin.
[edit] Cast
- Donnie Yen – Cheng Do
- Cheung-Yan Yuen – Master