Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
| Snake in the Eagle's Shadow | |
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Original Hong Kong film poster
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| Traditional | 蛇形刁手 |
| Simplified | 蛇形刁手 |
| Mandarin | Shé Xíng Diāo Shǒu |
| Cantonese | Se4 Jing4 Diu1 Sau2 |
| Directed by | Yuen Woo-ping |
| Produced by |
Ng See-yuen Chen Chuan |
| Written by | Ng See-yuen Choi Gai-gwong Tsai Chi-kuang |
| Starring |
Jackie Chan Yuen Siu Tien Hwang Jang Lee |
| Music by | Chou Fu-liang |
| Cinematography | Chang Hui |
| Edited by | Poon Hung Yiu |
| Distributed by | Seasonal Film Corporation |
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Running time
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98 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | HKD $2,708,748.20 |
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (Chinese: 蛇形刁手) is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts action film directed by Yuen Woo-ping in his directorial debut, and starring Jackie Chan, Hwang Jang Lee and Yuen Woo-ping's real life father, Yuen Siu Tien.
Right after this film, Yuen Woo-ping directed Drunken Master, released in the same year, which also starred Jackie Chan, Hwang Jang Lee and Yuen Siu Tien, and followed a similar plot.
Chien Fu (Jackie Chan), an orphan adopted by a kung fu school, is overworked as their janitor and abused by the kung fu teachers as a walking punching-bag, with the school's cook, Ah-Wu (Tino Wong), being his only sympathizer. Chien befriends an old beggar (Yuen Siu Tien) by offering him a meal and a place to stay. Unknown to Chien, the old beggar is actually Pai Cheng-Tien, one of the last surviving masters of the Snake-style of kung fu. Pai is on the run from the Eagle Claw clan, which is viciously killing off all of the rival Snake-stylng spot, but is ambushed by Eagle Claw student Su Chen and an assassin masquerading as a Christian missionary (Roy Horan), and is injured. After being abused once more, Chien later finds him, helping him recover. Pai agrees to give him more lessons, on the condition that he does not call him "sifu" ("master"), since they are friends. The real reason, however, is to keep Chien's connection with him secret from his pursuers.
Chien practices the lessons and learns to avoid being hurt by the school's bumbling teachers. When the school is invaded by the Mantis school, to everyone's amazement Chien easily defeats their master using the snake style. Unfortunately, one of the passing wanderers who witnesses the fight is the high master of the Eagle Clan, Sheng Kuan (Jang Lee Hwang), who recognizes the style at once and decides to tail Chien.
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