This was the film that saw Jackie Chan crowned as the clown prince of kung fu. As the legendary folk hero, Wong Fei-hung, who is forced to suffer the humiliations of uncle Yuen Hsiao Tian's pitiless training programme, Chan frequently reveals why he's so often acclaimed as Hong Kong's answer to Buster Keaton. But not everything is as gloriously knockabout as the final fight with the eight immortals, with the roadside encounter with assassin Huang Cheng Li being particularly brutal. Two sequels were released in 1994 - and yes, that is Bond girl Michelle Yeoh as Jackie's aunt.

After getting into trouble, a mischievous young man is sent to train under a brutal, but slovenly old beggar, who teaches him the secret of the Drunken Fist.