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movie_name=Kung Fu Hustle| image=Image:Kung-Fu_Hussle_Poster.jpg|none|300px|Kung Fu Hustle poster| director=Stephen Chow| writer=Stephen Chow, Tsang Kan Cheong, Xin Huo, Chan Man Keung|| starring=Stephen Chow, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, and Kwok Kuen Chan| producer=Columbia Pictures| distributor=Sony Pictures, Columbia Tristar| release_date=September 14 2004 (Canada), followed by world-wide release| runtime=95 minutes| movie_language=Standard_Cantonese|Cantonese, Standard_Mandarin|Mandarin| budget=$20 million| imdb_id=0373074 Kung Fu Hustle (zh-cp |c=功夫 |p=Gōngfu) is a martial arts film first released in Hong Kong in 2004. It was released for general US debut on April 22, 2005 after showing in Los Angeles and New York for two weeks. The North American Version of its DVD was released on August 8, 2005. Kung Fu Hustle is a humorous mockery of the wuxia genre, played and directed by Stephen Chow. It contains most of the characteristics of a typical wuxia movie, with a lot of ridiculous exaggerations, serious situations and comic plots. The use of visual effects used have been widely acclaimed and the almost comic book style of the movie are its most striking features. It is in stark contrast to recent Kung Fu movies that have made an impact in the West, such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero (movie)|Hero. Despite the computer-generated imagery and cartoonish scenes in the second half of the movie, the movie pays tribute to many famous Kung Fu film veterans from the 1970s who were all real martial artists on their own right. Many early fight scenes were packed with real Chinese martial arts. spoiler The movie is set in Shanghai around the 1940s. It tells the story of two bums on the street who pretend to be the members of the ruthless Axe Gang. Their extortion scheme fails when the victims fight back, and the plot thickens when the real Axe Gang shows up. Meanwhile, the run-down tenement that is being attacked, the Pig Sty, turns out to count amongst its residents superhuman kung-fu fighters. They reveal themselves in turn. Sing, who was one of the bums, comes into his superhero kung-fu powers as a result of being beaten until every bone was broken. He saves the day by defeating the Axe Gang's leaders and its hired assasins. Sing Image:Stephen Chow.jpg|thumb|right|Sing The protagonist of the movie, who initially seems to be a normal man with no martial arts training, ultimately uses an immensely-powerful technique called Buddha's Palm, which can project attacks into buildings, the ground, and other solid objects in the shape of a massive palm. He also has the personal ability to completely regenerate any injuries, recovering in one instance from multiple stab wounds. However, until the film's conclusion, Sing cannot use the Buddha's Palm technique, and while he is eventually found to be one of the extremely-rare folk with large reserves of qi, his energy points are blocked, and thus he cannot make use of it. What happens to Sing follows a very typical wuxia film plot. When he was a child, a crazy man sold him a secret manual (m??j?? 秘笈) on Buddha's palm (which happens to be a manual that many people have bought very cheaply). Using the manual, he studied Buddha's Palm with no success. After his metamorphosis in the film (this theme was played out during the movie; a butterfly was hatching from its Cocoon (silk)|cocoon while he was emerging from his own cocoon-like full-body bandage Cast (orthopedic)|cast during his healing process), his knowledge of Buddha's Palm has finally matured. Landlord Image:LandlordKFH.jpg|thumb|The Landlord|150px|left The Landlord, a man dominated by his wife, is a master of Taijiquan, trained to the point where he is able to deflect blows aimed directly at him away from his body, move with the lightness and grace of a falling feather, and evade most attacks anyone can bring to bear against him. During the encounter with the Harpists, the Landlord has them mostly hitting each other instead of him, despite being directly in the middle between them. Landlady Image:LandladyKFH.jpg|thumb|The Landlady|150px|right The chain-smoking violent wife of the Landlord, the Landlady practices a somewhat exaggerated version of a martial art called the Lion's roar (狮子吼派), which enables her to generate a roar-like yell from her mouth powerful enough to tear the plaster off walls and lift men off the ground like ragdolls. A passive side-effect is that she can easily raise her voice loud enough to overpower a group of a hundred or so people speaking loudly in unison. The origin of Lion's Roar came from ho'dong si (The lion east of the river), which is slang for a dominating wife. Her power in one case was augmented by using a large brass bell as a megaphone, generating so much force it managed to injure and temporarily stun the Beast. The Beast Image:BeastKFH.jpg|thumb|The Beast|150px|left Incarcerated in a mental institution for alleged insanity, the Beast is the most powerful known martial artist alive. His appearance is no indication of his power; a disheveled old man with seemingly no physical fitness whatsoever and suffering from a Male pattern baldness|receding hairline. However, the man is deserving of his title; he catches bullets with ease, leaps with enough force to crack the floor upon landing, drives kicks to the ground with enough power to create shockwaves that demolish walls, and can survive damage that would kill anyone else. His body, or at least his head, is immensely tough. He responded to direct strikes and kicks to his head from the Landlady and Landlord with a mere chuckle and implored them to use more force. His personal belief is that whoever is the fastest opponent will dominate, and he lives by that doctrine. His powerful counterattacks take only milliseconds to execute (They occur rapidly even when the film is playing in slow motion), and in the span of time it would take for a man to drive a single punch, he could perform a dozen or more. Image:BeastKFHBizzare.jpg|thumb|Foreshadowing...|150px|rightHis special attack is Kunlun toad kung fu, a skill that allows him to emulate a toad. (The Hamo style 蛤蟆功 is a well known fictional kung fu style mentioned in Jinyong's wuxia novels, this movie simply uses special effects to provide the visuals for it) Assuming the four-legged stance of a toad, his thighs increase noticeably in size which tears his pants, and he can simulate the inflatable throat of the said animal with sufficient force to cause gusts in the local area. He is then able to leap and smash through concrete walls with ease, and headbutt people a mile or so into the sky. He is not one to play fair, carrying spikes and nelumbo|lotus-shaped stabbing weapons bearing needles, as last-resort weapons. His qi reserves seem to rival Sing's as his manifested energy was so strong as to warp the clouds above the mental institution into sinister spiral shapes. The only reason he didn't break out of the institution himself, according to him, is because he said he'd only do so if he knew of someone out there that was a better fighter than him. However, he is not totally "evil" or beyond redemption. At the end, when Sing aims his attack and demolishes a large section of Pig Sty Alley and not the Beast, the Beast finally calms down and asks Sing what skill he had just used. When Sing offered to teach him Buddha's Palm if he wanted to learn, he broke down into tears (reacting to the mercy and forgiveness Sing had shown even after all the prior heavy fighting), knelt before Sing and acknowledged him as the greater of the two. Donut Image:DonutKFH.jpg|thumb|Donut|150px|right Donut is the person who mans the local noodle and congee shop in Pig Sty Alley. He is trained in the Octagon (bagua) Staff (stick)|Staff (八卦槍) martial art, including both fighting and throwing techniques. Early in the film, he threw a long baking rod (五郎八卦棍) with enough force to create an air vortex that sucked the tommy guns right out of enemy hands, even shattering them upon impact with the wall. He is quite capable of taking on groups of adversaries by himself in melee combat with any pole weapon, and his later fight-scene with the Harpists is a homage to wushu comics. He dies from trying to forcefully recover after telling Landlady and Landlord that they cannot escape their fate and from severe concussive damage sustained during the fight with the Harpists. Tailor Image:TailorKFH.jpg|thumb|Tailor|150px|left A man who seems cowardly and timid at first glance, Tailor is quite capable of handling himself in a fight. He practices Hung Gar|Hung family Iron Wire kung fu (洪家鐵線拳), and wears a long row of large metal rings on his forearms when fighting that he can use to raise his power and defense. He merges them into a roughly-cyclindrical form that protects his forearms and as the form obviously loses its shape as combat progresses, he has to "re-merge" them every once in a while. He is adept at punching people or hitting them with the merged rings, and has exceptional upper-body strength, able to hammer throw a heavy stone wheel thirty or more feet. He dies from injuries sustained during the fight with the Harpists. Coolie Image:Coolie.jpg|thumb|The Coolie|150px|right Coolie is the opposite of Tailor, using no weapons to fight, and has exceptional lower-body strength as he specializes in kicking. He practices Tantui|12 Kicks of the Tam School (十二路弾腿) and it shows. He is able to kick a heavy sack of rice from the ground and have it land across his shoulders, and during the fight later, jump high enough to kick people directly in the face. When not hitting people in the head, he prefers to kick them in the torso or legs, always with enough force to knock them down. He is killed by a decapitation attack from the Harpists. #1 Killers (a.k.a. The Harpists) Image:HarpistsKFH.jpg|thumb|The Harpists|150px|left|The Harpists A pair of hitman|hitmen whose weapon of choice is the guzheng. Although capable of melee combat, they much prefer to use their special fighting style, Deadly Melody. They can use their qi to focus and mold the sound waves produced by the instrument into deadly forms, ranging from scimitars, to fists and even a small legion of sword-wielding undead in ancient Chinese armor. The ability is not purely offensive; it can be used to form a protective "wall" that actively blocks and forcibly repels incoming weapons. Like most comedy movies, this movie repeats and parodies moments from other familiar films. To the western audience, this movie is new and one-of-its-kind. But to the schooled wuxia audience, this movie is a collage of ideas from numerous wuxia classics.
In many of Stephen Chow's movies, the hero falls in love with an imperfect girl. In this movie, the lollipop girl is mute. In Shaolin Soccer (2001), the girl was defaced. In God of Cookery (1996), the girl was buck-toothed... etc. Which now became a trademark of Stephen Chow's movies.
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Category:2004 films Category:Martial arts films Category:Hong Kong films category:Best Film HKFA fr:Crazy Kung Fu ja:???????????????????????? sv:Kung Fu Hustle zh:?????? (??????) This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Kung Fu Hustle".
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