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Spiritual Kung Fu (Chinese: 拳精) (Quan Jing) is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts comedy film directed and produced by Lo Wei. The film stars Jackie Chan , James Tien , and Dean Shek . The film features Yuen Biao as one of the Master of the Five Fists martial arts, and Chan was also the film's stunt co-ordinator .
Spiritual Kung Fu: Kung Fu: Half a Loaf of Kung Fu: Kung Fu: Shaolin Mantis (a.k.a. The Deadly Mantis) Five Deadly Venoms: Game of Death: Shogun's Samurai: Warriors Two: 1979: Re-Enter the Dragon: The Fearless Hyena: Snake in the Monkey's Shadow: The True Game of Death: Dragon Fist: Master With Cracked Fingers (a.k.a. Snake Fist Fighter) Mad ...
The review of the film on sogoodreviews.com reads, "It set the stage for the kung-fu comedy while also blending in elements of spirit boxing but ultimately in itself was an uneven effort. Lau's action directing, while accomplished obviously, never truly ignites and Wang Yu's Vampire Fist technique is more of a neat idea on paper rather than an ...
Tang How-yuen (Jackie Chan) is a disciple of kung fu master San-thye. San-thye wins a martial arts tournament, only to be killed by evil kung fu master, Master Li (Yen Shi-kwan). Tang tries unsuccessfully to fight Chung, and leaves the evil master unharmed. Tang, along with San-thye's wife and daughter head after the killer to seek revenge.
Reviewer David Chew of Asian Movie Pulse wrote, "Seldom seen in kung fu films before, Lau's directorial debut is a great combination of comedy and wonderfully choreographed kung fu action, starring an equally likable though wacky lead. The clever inclusion of spiritual and ghost elements into the mix would later influence other films to follow.
His first major breakthrough was the 1978 kung fu action comedy film Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, which was shot while he was loaned to Seasonal Film Corporation under a two-picture deal. [1] He then enjoyed huge success with similar kung fu action comedy films such as 1978's Drunken Master and 1980's The Young Master.
Spiritual Kung Fu (1978, Director) Dragon Fist (1979, Director) Fearless Hyena Part II (1983, Writer) Long hu zhi duo xing (1988) Haam ging bin yuen (1988) Shen xing tai bao (1989) Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive (1989) – The Boss; Gong woo jui hau yat goh dai lo (1990) – (final film role)
He starred in many Shaw Brothers Studio films and is known for his comic roles in films with Gordon Liu, such as Dirty Ho, Spiritual Boxer II, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin and Eight Diagram Pole Fighter. He was sometimes credited as Wong Yu and as Wang Yu, but is a different person than the older Shaw Brothers star Jimmy Wang Yu.