Cast
Stephen Chow Wah Yuen Qiu Yuen Siu-Lung Leung Xiaogang Feng Zhihua Dong
Credits
Written by: Stephen Chow
Plot
In 1940s Shanghai, a small-time wannabe gangster stumbles into a slum where hidden kung fu masters live, and the powerful Axe Gang attacks, in a cartoon-like action comedy.
Sinekatalog’s take
A wildly inventive and funny martial-arts parody.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.7 / 10 (166,904 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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