The Miracle Fighters

The Miracle Fighters is a 1982 Hong Kong martial arts action fantasy comedy film directed by Yuen Woo-ping and starring Bryan Leung, Yuen Cheung-yan and Yuen Yat Cho. The film's action sequences features various elements of fantasy which includes magic. It was followed by two sequels, Shaolin Drunkard (1983) and Taoism Drunkard (1984) which are similar style films with different storylines.

Plot

During the Qing Dynasty, Han Chinese and Manchu people were not allowed to marry each other. The Emperor commands Ko Hung (Eddy Ko) to kill his wife. However he refuses, and he had to see his wife die and engages in a battle with the Sorcerer Bat (Yuen Shun Yee). To escape, he also took the infant prince with him. Ko Hung later accidentally kills the prince, however, he then find an infant under a tree whom he adopts and names "Shu Kan". To cover up what he has done, he puts the prince's jade on Shu Kan. Over a decade later, the Sorcerer Bat tries to kill Ko and tried to kidnap Shu Kan and pass him as the prince. Ko becomes haevily injured, and Shu Kan (Yuen Yat Cho) goes to find medicine to heal him where he meets two elderly Taoist priests, Kei Moon (Bryan Leung) and Tun Kap (Yuen Cheung-yan), who are discioples of the same master (Yuen Siu-tien), and are always quarreling with each other. There the two teach Shu Kan their martial arts and magic. The Sorcerer Bat tries hard to get rid of the two to get Shu Ken, but later he managed to kill Tun Kap. Kei Moon then tells Shu Kan to enter a competition to obtain the Supreme Command. Shu Kan, using the skills he learned, enters a competition where he goes through many different obstacles before he faces off with the Sorcerer Bat. He eventually kills the Sorcerer Bat winning the competition and bring the supreme command with him. As he returns, he and Kei Moon discovered that Tun Kap actually faked her death to fool them to obtain the Supreme Command. The two elders then quarrels again to take the Supreme Command. They then decide who will take it in a game of Rock-paper-scissors. First, they both hit rocks, then papers where Shu Kan hits scissor and beats them both. With the Supreme Command, Shu Kan commands them to stop quarreling.

Cast

Award nomination

• 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards
  • Nominated: Best Action Choreography (Yuen Woo-ping, Brandy Yuen, Yuen Shun Yee, Yuen Cheung-yan, Yuen Yat Cho, Chiu Chung Hing)

External links

• The Miracle Fighters at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
• The Miracle Fighters at Hong Kong Cinemagic
• The Miracle Fighters at the Internet Movie Database