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Magnificent Bodyguards
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Traditional Chinese飛渡捲雲山
Simplified Chinese飞渡捲云山
Hanyu PinyinFēi Dù Juǎn Yún Shān
JyutpingFei1 Dou6 Gyun2 Wan4 Saan1
Directed byLo Wei
Screenplay byGu Long
Produced byLo Wei
StarringJackie Chan
James Tien
Leung Siu-lung
CinematographyChen Yung-shu
Edited byVincent Leung
Music byFrankie Chan
Production
company
Lo Wei Motion Picture Company
Release date
  • 27 April 1978 (1978-04-27)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageMandarin
Box officeHK$775,522 (Hong Kong)[1]
228,626 tickets (Seoul)[2]

Magnificent Bodyguards is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts action film starring Jackie Chan and directed by Lo Wei.[3] Chan, along with Luk Chuen also worked as stunt coordinators. This film was well received in Hong Kong, but Chan himself doesn't like it. He puts it down to Lo Wei not giving him any creative freedom. This was the first film in Hong Kong to be filmed using 3-D technology,[citation needed] and it features music from Star Wars.[3]

Plot

Lord Ting Chung is hired to escort a woman's sick brother to the doctor, but he does it for free. To get there they must pass through "Stormy Hills", an area of Ancient China controlled by criminals. Then the sick man turns out to be the king of the criminals and is not really sick; he is just trying to reclaim his throne from an imposter. The king had previously murdered Ting Chung's father, and now Ting Chung has to fight for his life to get out and also to avenge his father.

Cast

Home media

See also

References

  1. ^ "Magnificent Bodyguards (1978)". Hong Kong Movie Database. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  2. ^ "영화정보" [Movie Information]. KOFIC (in Korean). Korean Film Council. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  3. ^ a b Maçek III, J.C. (2 October 2013). "It's Pure Kung Fu Theatre and Somehow, 'Star Wars' in 'Jackie Chan Beginnings'". PopMatters. Retrieved 17 July 2014.

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