Kung Fu Hustle


Kung Fu Hustle is a 2004 Hong KongChinese martial arts action comedy film, directed, coproduced and cowritten by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the lead role. The other producers were Chui Pochu and Jeffrey Lau, and the screenplay was cowritten with Huo Xin, Chan Mankeung, and Tsang Kancheung. Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Danny Chan Kwokkwan, and Bruce Leung Siulung costarred in prominent roles.

The film was rereleased in 3D in October 2014 across Asia and America, marking the tenth anniversary of the film.In Shanghai during the 1930s, Sing and his friend Bone attempt to join the Deadly Axe Gang, which ruthlessly controls the city under the leadership of Brother Sum. Sing seeks to restore his confidence after being humiliated as a young boy while trying to protect a mute girl from bullies, due to the failure of the Buddhist Palm method he had learned from a pamphlet he bought from a beggar. Sing and Bone attempt to intimidate the residents of Pig Sty Alley but are chased off by its Landlady. Hearing of this, Sum orders Sing and Bone captured, while sending the Gang to reassert its authority in the wake of the humiliation. Three of the tenants, Coolie, Fairy, and Donut, reveal themselves to be martial arts masters, defeating more than fifty of the Gang. Fearing retribution, the Landlady evicts the three, but they encounter a pair of hired assassins who fight using a magical guqin that launches invisible blades. Coolie is beheaded, and Fairy and Donut are mortally wounded before the Landlady and her husband the Landlord reveal that they too are martial arts masters, having gone into selfexile after the death of their son. The two defeat the assassins but Fairy and Donut die from their injuries. The Landlords temporarily evacuate the other tenants for their safety. ........

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