''The Miracle Fighters'' is a 1982 Hong Kong

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fantasy comedy film directed by Yuen Woo-ping and starring

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, Yuen Cheung-yan and Yuen Yat-cho. The film's action sequences features various elements of fantasy which includes magic. It was followed by two sequels, ''

Shaolin Drunkard ''Shaolin Drunkard'' (; Orig. Tian shi zhuang xie, a.k.a. ''Wu Tang Master'', a.k.a. ''Miracle Fighters 2'') is a 1983 kung fu comedy film directed by Yuen Woo-ping, written by Yuen Woo-ping and Chung Hing Chiu, and starring Yuen Cheung-yan, Edd ...

'' (1983) and ''Taoism Drunkard'' (1984) which are similar style films with different storylines.

Plot

During the

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and

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were not allowed to marry each other. The Emperor commands Ko Hung ( Eddy Ko) to kill his wife. However he refuses, and he has to see his wife die and engages in a battle with the Sorcerer Bat (Yuen Shun-yee). To escape, he also takes the infant prince with him. Ko Hung later accidentally kills the prince. However, he then finds an infant under a tree whom he adopts and names him "Shu-kan", which is literally translated as "Tree Root". To cover up what he has done, he puts the prince's jade on Shu-kan. Over a decade later, the Sorcerer Bat tries to kill Ko and tries to kidnap Shu-kan and pass him off as the prince. Ko becomes heavily injured, and Shu-kan (Yuen Yat-cho) goes to find medicine to heal him where he meets two elderly Taoist priests, Kei-moon (

) and Tun-kap ( Yuen Cheung-yan). Kei-moon and Tun-kap are disciples of the same master (

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), and are always quarreling with each other. There the two teach Shu-kan their martial arts and magic skills. The Sorcerer Bat tries hard to get rid of the two to get Shu-kan, but later he manages to kill Tun-kap. Kei-moon then tells Shu-kan to enter a competition to obtain the Supreme Command. Shu-kan, using the skills he learned, enters the competition where he goes through many different obstacles before he faces off with the Sorcerer Bat. He eventually kills the Sorcerer Bat, wins the competition and brings the supreme command with him. As he returns, he and Kei-moon discover that Tun-kap actually faked his death to fool them to obtain the Supreme Command. The two elders then quarrel again over the Supreme Command. They then decide who will take it in a game of Rock-paper-scissors. First, they both hand gesture "rock", then "paper" but Shu-kan gestures "scissor" and beats them both. With the Supreme Command, Shu-kan commands them to stop quarreling.

Cast

Award nomination

* 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards **Nominated: Best Action Choreography ( Yuen Woo-ping, Brandy Yuen, Yuen Shun-yee, Yuen Cheung-yan, Yuen Yat-cho, Chiu Chung-hing)

External links

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