Tai Chi Shadow Boxing 1979 (aka Tai Chi Devil Dragons)
An old beggar (Yu Chung-Chiu aka Chui Chung Hei) convinces two young troublemakers (Jackie Chen and Heung Wan-Pang) to be his kung fu students to learn Tai Chi Shadow Boxing and help him get revenge on a monk (Kam Kong aka Kang Chin) who killed his brother many years ago.
The beggar is who first recruits the two as students by force and later pleads with them to continue their training. But not even the presence of his pretty daughter (Chow Shui-Fong) is enough to keep them around, until he breaks down and tells them why.
The beggar puts the them through some tough training (you know the usual, with comedy thrown in) but no real mention of styles apart from some hilarious names for stances being shouted out and you wont find any good examples of Tai Chi boxing, regardless of the title.
Kam Kong states his intention to take care of the beggar himself and a second later he's facing the beggar out in the open and results in a fight that's choreographed good. The two use combined tactics to take on Kam.
Tai Chi Shadow Boxing has some decent fu but has cheap production, acting, editing and not enough creativity in choreography. It seems to drag at times until the last 20 minutes. Overall I liked it. Half good, half bad... I give it a 5....
An old beggar (Yu Chung-Chiu aka Chui Chung Hei) convinces two young troublemakers (Jackie Chen and Heung Wan-Pang) to be his kung fu students to learn Tai Chi Shadow Boxing and help him get revenge on a monk (Kam Kong aka Kang Chin) who killed his brother many years ago.
The beggar is who first recruits the two as students by force and later pleads with them to continue their training. But not even the presence of his pretty daughter (Chow Shui-Fong) is enough to keep them around, until he breaks down and tells them why.
The beggar puts the them through some tough training (you know the usual, with comedy thrown in) but no real mention of styles apart from some hilarious names for stances being shouted out and you wont find any good examples of Tai Chi boxing, regardless of the title.
Kam Kong states his intention to take care of the beggar himself and a second later he's facing the beggar out in the open and results in a fight that's choreographed good. The two use combined tactics to take on Kam.
Tai Chi Shadow Boxing has some decent fu but has cheap production, acting, editing and not enough creativity in choreography. It seems to drag at times until the last 20 minutes. Overall I liked it. Half good, half bad... I give it a 5....