The style is portrayed in the 1978 film Drunken Master, in which Jackie Chan plays a juvenile delinquent sent by his father to learn Zui Quan from his uncle, a master in the art. This is followed up by the 1994 film Drunken Master II or The Legend of Drunken Master, in which Jackie Chan returns as Wong Fei Hung, now skilled in Zui Quan (after the first film).
In Last Hero in China, Jet Li's character Wong Fei-Hung broke his toes when attempting to perform a No Shadow Kick on an enemy. As a last resort, he started drinking from nearby wine-jugs, and thus began to use Zui Quan, referring to it as "The Drunken Disciples of God".
In The Forbidden Kingdom, Jackie Chan's character Lu Yan specializes in Zui Quan. In the middle of the fight between Lu Yan and "The silent Monk" Jet Li Li's character switches to Tanglang Quan or Praying Mantis Kung Fu and ends up beating Chan's Zui Quan, upon which Chan's character switches to Tiger style.
The character of So Chanin the Donnie Yen in the movie Hero Among Heroes uses the style (as taught to him by his foster father) to defeat the main villain.
Neo, in The Matrix, is taught Drunken Boxing during training on the Nebuchadnezzar via direct implantation into his brain.
In Yuen Woo Ping's film, True Legend, the main protagonist, Su Can, or "Beggar So" develops the style after a drunken Immortal played by Jay Chou appears to him in a bar.
Television
In the anime Dragon Ball, Jackie Chun (Master Roshi) uses the drunken boxing technique in the final match of the World Tournament against Goku. Called the Mad Cow style in the English dub, due to censorship of alcoholic references
In the television special Fight Science, Alex Huynh displayed drunken boxing in a segment on Chinese martial arts.
In the MTV2 television series The Final Fu one of the competitors, Jonathan Phan, used Drunken Boxing to fight against one of his opponents.
In the anime "Naruto", Rock Lee, an expert in taijutsu, utilizes Drunken Fist (Loopy Fist in the English dub, due to censorship of underage drinking) when he gets accidentally drunk on sake (Elixir in the English dub), which he mistakes for medicine. Rock Lee fights Kimimaro during the Sasuke retrieval saga, though his alcoholic lapses are relatively brief, and he has no memory of his actions once he has returned to his normal self.
In the anime "Yu Yu Hakusho", Chu uses drunken fighting as his main style of fighting. He becomes proportionally stronger with every drink he has. While this is not censored in the English dub, it is still edited out when aired on Cartoon Network due to the censorship of alcoholic references.
Wentian (played by Vincent Zhao), the protagonist of the 2002 Chinese TV series Drunken Hero, masters a set of martial arts based on different styles of Drunken Fist, with each style named after a Chinese alcoholic drink.
Books
In the manga series Naruto, the character Rock Lee is a natural-born user of the Drunken Fist. Rock Lee mistakes a bottle of sake for his medicine, and Might Guy tells the Hokage (village leader) that he witnessed Rock Lee using Zui Quan at a level he had never seen before. [1] Similar to its anime counterpart, the English language manga also removed the alcoholic reference, but replaced the sake with the term "Potion" and renaming the style to "Potion Punch".
The folktale Swordplay Under the Moon, created by noted Yangzhou storyteller Wang Shaotang (1889-1968), tells of how the Water Margin bandit Wu Song comes to learn swordplay from Zhou Tong, the military arts teacher of Song Dynasty General Yue Fei. After Wu is sent to Kaifeng to deliver a load of gold for government officials, he retires to a local inn and, that evening, begins to practice his drunken boxing in the rear courtyard. However, his practice is interrupted when the screams of another martial artists breaks his concentration. He stands on a stool and peers over a tall wall to see Zhou performing drunken swordplay for a group of aristocrats. Zhou invites Wu over the wall and eventually takes him as his student.[2]
In Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Greg Heffley learns Zui Quan in the future 6th book. He used it while fighting with Rowley's father, Robert.
Videogames
The character Bo' Rai Cho from Mortal Kombat uses Drunken Fist as his primary fighting style. (secondary in Deception). The name Bo' Rai Cho comes from the Spanish word "borracho", meaning drunk. Bo' Rai Cho has a love for alcoholic beverages (most notably rice wine), and is credited as being the creator of the Mortal Kombat universe's version of the style.
In the BioWare title Jade Empire, drunken boxing is one of the fighting styles available later in the game.
In the Hudson Soft 1989 title China Warrior, the final boss of the final level uses the Drunken Boxing fighting style. Also notable is that when the boss takes a swig from his flask he regains a small portion of his health.
In Jet Li: Rise to Honor, there is a club manager who appears to use drunken boxing.
In Double Dragon for Neo Geo, Cheng Fu fought using Drunken Boxing and is probably the first 2D characters in fighting games to use it.
In the arcade game Martial Masters there was a fighter known as the Drunken Master who used Zui Quan.
In the MMORPG game 9Dragons, one of the four leagues, the League of Beggars, uses slightly modified techniques of the Drunken Fist as its secondary weapon.
The online fighting game Rumble Fighter has a fighting style named 'Drunken Boxing' which mimics Zui Quan. Its Korean counterpart, Gem Fighter, has another version called 'Drunken Master' which is more complex and slightly more "drunken".
In the 3D beat-em-up God Hand for PlayStation 2, the main character is able to learn several moves of the Drunken Fist style.
References
^Kishimoto, Masashi (2007). "Chapter 210-211". Naruto, Volume 25. Viz Media. ISBN 1-4215-1860-0.
^ Børdahl, Vibeke. The Oral Traditions of Yangzhou Storytelling. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1996 (ISBN 0-7007-0436-1), pp. 365-376