Jackie Chan plays a character named Jackie Chan whose parents were killed and then he grows up to seek revenge on the creep who snuffed his pop. About as basic as these kung fu flicks can be. Strangely the dubbing job on the English version I have of this is totally ridiculous with the theme from the POPEYE cartoon playing during one fight followed by Jackie's old master(Simon Yuen) farting in a skinny effeminate characters face. Also everyone has over-exaggerated comedic British accents. The most memorable, and absurd, scene though has the old master shove a young naked boy into a bag of snakes to teach him to ignore his surroundings or something. Not something I want anyone to walk in on my watching!
Chan was very young when he made this(it's his first adult starring role) and even he doesn't recommend you watch it. Apparently it was never completed with Jackie and the final battle, where both fighters are conveniently blindfolded, isn't Mr. Chan at all. There's also apparently a couple of differing versions of this with varying degrees of stupid comedic content. AKA SNAKE FIST FIGHTER, TEN FINGERS OF DEATH, SNAKE FIST NINJA, LAST TIGER FROM CANTON, STRANGER IN HONG KONG and CUB TIGER FROM KWANGTUNG
THE BIG BRAWL came out in 1980 so they re-released this, under a snazzy new title, to capitalize on Jackie's newfound fame:
They really seamlessly cut that new title into the opening without a jarring edit or anything!:
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