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2004 Hong Kong action comedy motion-picture show by Stephen Chow

Kung Fu Hustle
Mainland People's republic of china release poster
Chinese	功夫
Mandarin	Gōng Fū
Cantonese	Gung1 Fu1
Directed by	Stephen Chow
Screenplay past	Stephen Chow Huo Xin Chan Man-keung Tsang Kan-cheung
Story by	Stephen Chow
Produced by	Stephen Chow Po-Chu Chui Jeffrey Lau
Starring	Stephen Chow Danny Chan Yuen Wah Yuen Qiu Eva Huang Leung Siu-lung
Cinematography	Poon Hang-sang
Edited by	Angie Lam
Music by	Raymond Wong
Production companies	Columbia Pictures Motion picture Product Asia Star Overseas Beijing Film Studio Taihe Film Investment Mainland china Picture Grouping Huayi Brothers
Distributed by	Huayi Brothers (China)[1] Columbia TriStar Moving-picture show Distributors International (International)[2] [3]
Release dates	xiv September 2004 (2004-09-xiv) (TIFF) 23 December 2004 (2004-12-23) (Hong Kong)
Running time	98 minutes[4]
Countries	Hong Kong[3] China[3]
Languages	Cantonese[4] Mandarin
Budget	$20 million[5]
Box office	$104.ix million[6]

Kung Fu Hustle (Chinese: 功夫; lit. 'Kung Fu') is a 2004 activeness-one-act picture show directed, produced, co-written by, and starring Stephen Grub. The film tells the story of a murderous neighbourhood gang, a poor village with unlikely heroes, and an aspiring gangster's vehement journey to discover his truthful self. Eva Huang, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Danny Chan Kwok-kwan and Leung Siu-lung co-starred in prominent roles. The martial arts choreography is supervised past Yuen Woo-ping.

Kung Fu Hustle was a co-production between Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese companies, filmed in Shanghai. Afterwards the commercial success of Shaolin Soccer, its production visitor, Star Overseas, began to develop the films with Columbia Pictures Asia in 2002. Information technology features a number of retired actors famous for 1970s Hong Kong action cinema and has been compared to contemporary and influential wuxia films such as Crouching Tiger, Subconscious Dragon and Hero. The cartoon special furnishings in the film accompanied by traditional Chinese music, is often cited as its about striking feature.

The picture was released on 23 Dec 2004 in People's republic of china and on 25 January 2005 in the United States. The moving picture received positive reviews and grossed The states$17 million in North America and US$84 one thousand thousand in other regions. It was 10th on the list of highest-grossing foreign-language films in the United States as well every bit the highest-grossing strange-language picture show in the state in 2005. Kung Fu Hustle won numerous awards, including vi Hong Kong Picture show Awards and v Gilded Horse Awards. The film was re-released in 3D in October 2014 across Asia and America, marking the 10th anniversary of the picture.

Plot [edit]

In 1940s Shanghai, petty crooks Sing and Bone aspire to join the notorious Axe Gang nether the leadership of the cold-blooded killer Brother Sum. The pair visit a rundown slum known as Pigsty Alley to extort the residents by pretending to be Axe Gang members. Sing throws a firecracker that he claims will bespeak the balance of the Axe Gang, only his bluff backfires when the firecracker explodes next to a existent Axe Gang underboss. Sing blames the residents for throwing the firecracker and the boss attacks them, just he is struck and killed by an unseen attacker. Gang reinforcements arrive but they are all quickly dealt with by three of the slum'due south tenants: Coolie, Tailor, and Donut, who reveal they are actually kung fu masters. All the same, fearing the Axe Gang's retaliation, the slum'southward Landlady evicts the trio.

Brother Sum captures Sing and Bone, intending to kill them for posing as gang members. However, Sing uses his exceptional lock-picking skills to costless himself and Bone earlier they are killed by thrown axes. The impressed Brother Sum allows them to bring together the gang on the condition that they impale someone. Sing laments being a failure in life. He recalls his babyhood to Bone when he was tricked by a vagrant into ownership a martial arts pamphlet with his meager saving because he was duped into thinking he was a natural-born kung fu master. Afterward practising the pamphlet's Buddhist Palm technique many times, Sing attempted to salve a mute girl named Fong from bullies but was instead beaten and humiliated. Sing becomes adamant that heroes never win and resolves to be a villain.

Sing and Bone return to Pigsty Alley to impale the Landlady. Still, their plan backfires as Sing is repeatedly stabbed by his and Os's missed pocketknife throws. He retreats to a traffic pulpit where his body apace heals from his deadly injuries. The hurting causes him to strike the sides of the metal pulpit, covering the surface with hand-shaped impressions. Meanwhile Blood brother Sum hires two Harpists that use a magical guzheng to impale their victims with sound. The assassins arrive at Pigsty Alley just every bit the trio of kung fu masters are leaving. The Harpists kill Coolie and defeat Donut and Tailor with their magical instrument; still, they are defeated later by the Landlady and her hubby the Landlord, who are revealed to be kung fu masters too. The Landlady then warns Brother Sum, who watched the fight with his adviser, to stay away from Hole Alley.

A frustrated Sing attempts to rob an water ice foam vendor simply discovers that she is actually Fong. When she recognises him and offers him a lollipop, he smashes it and leaves in shame; he also rebuffs Os. Brother Sum offers Sing firsthand gang membership if he uses his lock-picking skills to complimentary the Fauna, a legendary kung fu assassin from a Shanghai mental asylum. Sing brings the Brute back to the Axe Gang's headquarters.

Brother Sum is skeptical of the Beast'southward skills due to his flippant attitude and sloppy appearance. Withal, the Animate being proves his kung fu prowess by stopping a bullet midair with his fingers. When the Beast detects the kung fu presence of the Landlady and LandLord, he destroys the casino next door to face up the couple. A fight breaks out between the three and culminates in all of them being immobilised in an inter-joint lock. Brother Sum orders Sing to attack the Landlady and Landlord to assistance the Creature, simply Sing has a change of eye and attacks the Beast instead. Infuriated, the Beast smashes Sing'southward head into the ground, merely he is saved by the Landlady and Landlord. The trio flee and Brother Sum berates the Beast for letting them escape; the Creature kills Brother Sum in response.

Back at Pigsty Alley, the Landlady and Landlord care for Sing and are surprised by his quick recovery from his fatal injuries. Sing then treats the couple's wounds in return before confronting the Axe Gang. The Landlady deduces that the Beast's chirapsia of Sing has realigned Sing's qi, metamorphosing him into a natural kung fu master. The new Sing effortlessly dispatches the Axe Gang before fighting the Beast, who initially appears to have the upper hand due to his "toad style". However, when Sing is sent flight into the heaven by the Brute, he has a vision of Buddha in the clouds and completes his transformation. Sing uses the Buddhist Palm technique to defeat the Beast. Awestruck past Sing's power and prowess, the Beast tearfully bows to Sing and concedes defeat.

Sing and Bone open a processed store with Fong's lollipop as their logo. Fong visits Sing at his store, and the pair cover. Meanwhile the same mysterious vagrant who sold Sing the martial arts pamphlet speaks to another child just outside the store, simply this fourth dimension he is selling multiple pamphlets education several dissimilar styles.

Cast [edit]

• Stephen Chow as Sing, a loser in life who aspires to join the Axe Gang. He specialises in the Fut Gar Buddhist Palm technique. Subsequently the Beast beats Sing to the brink of death, Sing "resets his qi flow", releasing the natural-born kung fu master inside.
• Danny Chan Kwok-kwan as Brother Sum, the ruthless leader of the Axe Gang. Under his leadership, the Axe Gang wipes out all the other gangs of China.
• Yuen Qiu as the Landlady of Hole Alley. She is a master of the Lama Pai King of beasts's Roar technique. She has a sonic scream that tin can pierce through anything.
• Yuen Wah equally the Landlord of Pigsty Alley. He is a chief of kung fu and taijiquan. He is flexible and able to hover in midair.
• Leung Siu-lung equally the Beast, an quondam just incredibly strong kung fu master. He is rumoured to be the nearly dangerous person live, though his skill is disguised by his unkempt appearance. He is a master of the Toad Manner from the Kwan Lun School. He can act like a toad and headbutt a person with immense force.
• Xing Yu as Coolie, a Kung Fu specialist of the Tan Tui Twelve Kicks technique from the Tam Schoolhouse. He has incredibly fast legs and tin can sense when an opponent is budgeted.
• Chiu Chi-ling as the Tailor of Hole Aisle. He specialises in the Hung Ga Atomic number 26 Wire Fist technique and fights with fe rings on his arms.
• Dong Zhihua as Donut, a baker in Pigsty Alley. He specialises in the Eight Trigram Staff. He command staffs in the direction they go.
• Lam Chi-chung as Bone, Sing'southward obese sidekick who tends to follow Sing around.
• Eva Huang as Fong, Sing'due south mute beloved interest and babyhood acquaintance. Sing saved her from bullies when she was young.
• Tin Kai-man as Brother Sum's adviser. He takes over every bit the caput of the Axe Gang subsequently Blood brother Sum is killed.
• Gar Hong-hay and Fung Hak-on as the Harpists, two assassins hired by the Axe Gang who kill their victims with a magical guzheng, or "Chinese harp".
• Lam Suet and Liang Hsiao as high-ranking members of the Axe Gang.
• Yuen Cheung-yan as the Beggar, the man who sold Sing the Buddha'due south Palm manual. He is a fraud who tricks kids to make money for himself. Yuen is the brother of Yuen Woo-ping, the film's fight choreographer.
• Feng Xiaogang as the leader of the Crocodile Gang. He is killed past the Axe Gang at the start of the film. He was the last gang leader to exist killed by Blood brother Sum.

Background [edit]

The climate of the film industry and the expectation of a 21st-century action flick were different throughout the history of Chinese cinema. However, the divergence provides ane of the reasons why Kung Fu Hustle was so well received.

Kung Fu Hustle responded to and amplified a global demand for the reawakening of martial arts movie house—and i which was fulfilled past a multitude of reiterations of the genre, all of which can be said, without a doubt, to fulfill the criteria for 21st-century activity movie theater: high budget, fashionable, and activity-packed.^[7]

Directors and their contemporaries changed the martial arts cinema together to gain more universal appeal.^[7] The work has built martial arts as a viable style of behaviour expression in the picture show, also displayed how the martial arts could exist transformed in the movie house industry to reverberate both "contemporary local issues and the increasingly important reality of globalization."^[seven] Unlike Ang Lee's gorgeous Wu Xia film, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Zhou Xingchi chose to employ the perspective of a bottom gangster to cutting into Wuxia and Jianghu. Kung Fu does not succeed because it is and so localized. Quite the contrary, Kung Fu Hustle embodies a complex transnationalism.^[8]

Martial arts was a new wave in Chinese cinema, Chow and other directors were responsible for the cosmos of another subset of martial arts cinema, which including vampire genre. Grub has combined elements such as undead, Taoism, kung fu, as well equally comedy into his movies, which helped create a comedy-horror feel that was distinct to Hong Kong.^[7] The beginning of the martial arts has paved the future for both local and international directors. They started to learn and adopt martial arts to fulfill and satisfy their own demands, later the trend became a transnational market.^[7]

Unlike with traditional Chinese wuxia cinema, Chow's new kung fu movies aid with reflecting the extent to force the globalisation within the amusement manufacture, which afterward influenced local construction of self-identity.^[seven]

Production [edit]

Development [edit]

An early on sketch of the Pigsty Alley

Kung Fu Hustle is a co-product of the Beijing Film Studio and Hong Kong's Star Overseas.^[ix] After the success of his 2001 flick, Shaolin Soccer, Chow was approached in 2002 by Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, offer to interact with him on a project. Grub accepted the offering, and the projection eventually became Kung Fu Hustle.^[10] Kung Fu Hustle was produced with a budget of US$twenty million.^[11]

Grub was inspired to create the pic past the martial arts films he watched as a child and by his childhood ambition to get a martial artist.^[12] A senior Hollywood executive said Chow was "forced to grind through four successive scripts" and "establish it very laborious".^[13]

Chow'southward first priority was to design the main location of the film, "Pigsty Alley". Subsequently in an interview Chow remarked that he had created the location from his babyhood, basing the pattern on the crowded apartment complexes of Hong Kong where he had lived.^{[xiv] [fifteen]} The 1973 Shaw Brothers Studio picture, The House of 72 Tenants, was another inspiration for Pigsty Aisle.^[16] Designing the Alley began in January 2003 and took iv months to complete. Many of the props and article of furniture in the apartments were antiques from all over China.^[17]

Casting [edit]

Kung Fu Hustle features several prolific Hong Kong activity cinema actors from the 1970s. Yuen Wah, a quondam student of the China Drama Academy Peking Opera School who appeared in over a hundred Hong Kong films and was a stunt double for Bruce Lee, played the Landlord of Hole Alley. Wah considered starring in Kung Fu Hustle to be the peak of his career. In spite of the moving picture's success, he worried that nowadays fewer people practice martial arts.^[18]

Auditions for the function of the Landlady began in March 2003. Yuen Qiu, who did not audition, was spotted during her friend's screen test smoking a cigarette with a sarcastic expression on her face, which won her the function. Qiu, a student of Yu Jim-yuen, sifu of the China Drama Academy, had appeared in the 1974 James Bail motion-picture show The Human with the Gilt Gun at the age of 18.^[twenty] Afterward a number of other pocket-sized roles, she retired from films in the 1980s. Kung Fu Hustle was her kickoff role in xix years. Qiu, in gild to fulfill Chow's vision for the role, gained weight for the function by eating midnight snacks every mean solar day.^[20]

Bruce Leung, who played the Brute, was Stephen Grub's childhood martial arts hero.^[15] Leung Siu Lung was a famous activeness film managing director and role player in the 1970s and 1980s, known as the "Third Dragon" after Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. Afterward becoming unpopular in the Taiwanese motion-picture show market in the late 1980s following a visit to China, he switched to a career in concern. Kung Fu Hustle was his return to the film manufacture afterwards a xv-twelvemonth hiatus. He regarded Chow equally a flexible director with high standards, and was particularly impressed by the offset scene involving the Beast, which had to be reshot 28 times.^[21]

In addition to famous martial artists, Kung Fu Hustle features legends of Chinese movie theatre. Two famous Chinese directors appear in the pic: Zhang Yibai, who plays Inspector Chan at the beginning of the motion-picture show, and Feng Xiaogang, who plays the boss of the Crocodile Gang.^[22]

In casting Sing's love interest Fong, Chow stated that he wanted an innocent looking girl for the role. Television actress Eva Huang, in her picture debut, was chosen from over 8,000 women. When asked most his conclusion in casting her, Chow said that he "just had a feeling about her" and that he enjoyed working with new actors. She chose to take no dialogue in the picture so that she could stand out merely with her body gestures.^[23]

Filming [edit]

CGI construction of the Buddhist Palm

Filming took identify in Shanghai from June 2003 to November 2003.^[24] Ii-thirds of the time was spent shooting the fight sequences.^[12] Those scenes were initially choreographed past Sammo Hung, who quit later two months due to illness, tough outdoor weather condition, interest in another project and arguments with the production crew.^[25] Hung was replaced by Yuen Woo-ping, an action choreographer with experience ranging from 1960s Hong Kong action cinema to more recent films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix. Yuen promptly accepted the offer.^[x] Yuen drew on seemingly outdated wuxia fighting styles like the Deadly Melody and Buddhist Palm.^[26] He remarked that despite the comedic nature of the flick, the shooting procedure was a serious affair due to the tight schedule.^[18]

Most of the special effects in the picture, created by Hong Kong computer graphics visitor Centro Digital Pictures Limited, which had previously worked on films such as Shaolin Soccer and Kill Bill, included a combination of computer-generated imagery and wire work. Centro Digital performed extensive tests on CGI scenes earlier filming started, and treatment of the preliminary shots began immediately afterwards. The CGI crew edited out wire effects and applied special furnishings in high resolution. Legendary martial arts mentioned in wuxia novels were depicted and exaggerated through CGI, just actual people were used for the final fight betwixt Chow'southward character and hundreds of axe-wielding gangsters.^[9] Afterwards a final calibration of color, information of the processed scenes was sent to the US for the product of the concluding version. A group of vi people followed the production crew throughout the shooting.^[24]

Music [edit]

The majority of the film's original score was composed by Raymond Wong and performed past the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.^[27] The score imitates traditional Chinese music used in 1940s swordplay films.^[28] 1 of Wong'southward works, Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained, provides a stark contrast between the villainous Axe Gang and the peaceful neighbourhood of Hole Alley, depicted by a Chinese folk song, Fisherman's Song of the Eastward China Sea.^[22] Along with Wong'southward compositions and various traditional Chinese songs, classical compositions are featured in the score, including excerpts from Zigeunerweisen by Pablo de Sarasate and Sabre Dance by Aram Khachaturian.^[29] The song, Zhiyao Weini Huo Yitian ( 只要為你活一天 ; Only Want to Live One Day for You), is sung in the background past Eva Huang at the end of the movie. Written by Liu Chia-chang in the 1970s, it tells of a girl's memories of a loved one, and her want to live for him again.^[30] Kung Fu Hustle was nominated for All-time Original Pic Score at the 24th Hong Kong Movie Awards.^[31]

Asian and American versions of the soundtrack were released. The Asian version of the soundtrack was released on 17 December 2004 by Sony Music Entertainment and has 33 tracks.^[32] The American version of the soundtrack was released on 29 March 2005 by Varèse Sarabande and has 19 tracks, with fourteen tracks missing compared to the Asian release.^[33]

The soundtrack for the trailer was mastered at Epiphany Music and Recording, Inc. in Santa Rosa, California.

References to other works [edit]

Kung Fu Hustle makes references to a broad range of films, animated cartoons, wuxia novels, anime and other sources. The housing arrangement of the Pigsty Alley is similar to that of a 1973 Hong Kong motion-picture show, The House of 72 Tenants. Information technology is gear up in a Shanghai Shantytown taking Hong Kong viewers dorsum to their days of hardship but also making the audience in prc interested in, as Ho pointed out, "Chow appropriates Hong Kong's by to address Red china's current anxieties over rapid modernization and secures the quondam colony's bond with its semi-reunited motherland-in both emotional and film concern terms".^[34] In that location are two references to Chow'south previous film, Shaolin Soccer: When Sing arrives at Pigsty Alley, he plays skillfully with a soccer brawl, then says, "You lot're still playing football?". The 2nd reference is the scene in which a clerk beats Sing upwards on a bus. The clerk likewise appeared in Shaolin Soccer every bit the leader of an opposing team who used hidden weapons to crush up the Shaolin soccer team. When Sing challenges a boy in the Hole Alley, Sing calls him "The Karate Kid", a reference to the 1984 film of the same name. During the atmospherics between Sing and the hairdresser, the barber states, "Even if y'all kill me, there will be thousands more than of me!". This is a reference to a famous quote made by Lu Haodong, a Chinese revolutionary in the late Qing dynasty.^[35] The scene in which Sing is chased by the Landlady as he flees from the Alley is a homage to Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, characters in the Looney Tunes cartoons, even including the pursuer's (the Landlady's) ill fate. During the opening scene in which the leader of the Crocodile Gang is killed by Blood brother Sum of the Axe Gang, in the background a poster for the 1939 picture Le Jour Se Lève is visible. In the scene in which Sing robs the ice cream vendor, a poster for the 1935 picture Acme Lid is in the background. As Sing arrives at the door to the Beast'south cell in the mental aviary, he hallucinates a big wave of blood rushing from the cell door, similar to a scene in The Shining.^[36] The Landlady says at one point, "Tomorrow is another twenty-four hours", which is a line from the 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and its 1939 film adaptation.

A major chemical element of the plot is based on the wuxia film series Palm of Ru Lai ( 如來神掌 ), released in 1964.^[37] Sing studied the fighting style used in Palm of Ru Lai ("Buddhist Palm mode"), from a young age and used it at the cease of Kung Fu Hustle. In reality, the Buddhist Palm fighting fashion does non exit palm-shaped craters and holes on impact. Instead, the user delivers powerful punches using his palm. The Fauna'southward name in Chinese, Huoyun Xieshen ( 火雲邪神 ; Evil Deity of the Fiery Cloud), and the fight with the Landlady and her husband are also references to the Palm of Ru Lai, in which a mortally wounded master strikes the patterns of his art's final techniques into a bell so that his apprentice can learn from it.^[38] Kung Fu Hustle too contains direct references to characters from Louis Cha's wuxia novels. For example, the landlord and landlady refer to themselves as Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü, the names of characters in Cha's The Render of the Condor Heroes, when they met the Beast.^[39]

References to gangster films are likewise present. Many fight scenes and superhuman power displayed by Kung Fu Masters in the film are reminiscent of Dragon Ball Z and similar anime. The boss of the Axe Gang, Blood brother Sum ( 琛哥 ) is named afterwards Hon Sam / Hon Sum ( 韓琛 ), the triad boss played by Eric Tsang in Infernal Diplomacy.^[40] The Harpists imitate The Blues Brothers, wearing similar hats and sunglasses at all times.^[41] When they are flattered past the Axe Gang advisor, one of them answers, "Strictly speaking we're just musicians", similar to a line past Elwood Blues.^[42]

When Donut dies, he says, "In great ability lies great responsibility", a reference to 2002'due south Spider-Man, said by Uncle Ben before his death.^[35] Additionally, in that scene, the Landlady says, "Like Donut said, everyone has his reasons", a reference to Jean Renoir's 1939 film The Rules of the Game.^[43] Later, with his dying breath, Donut gets upward, grabs the Landlord past the shirt and utters in English, "What are you lot prepared to do?", a nod to Sean Connery'due south graphic symbol Jim Malone in Brian De Palma's 1987 pic The Untouchables. ^{[44] [45]}

The dialogue that the Beast says while negotiating with the Axe Gang for killing the Landlady and Landlord—"...then young friend, I will brand an offer you lot cannot decline", is a reference of the dialogue from the movie The Godfather.^[44] Also, the Landlady'due south comment to Blood brother Sum—"We brought a gift you cannot refuse" is an obvious parody of the same, to which Sum replies (in the dubbed version of the flick), "Ha! With the Beast on our side, we shall see for whom the bell tolls", a reference to the 1943 pic.^[46]

The final fight between Sing (who has been reborn into "the 1", which pays homage to Bruce Lee past wearing his costume in Enter the Dragon and using his fighting style) and the hundreds of gangsters imitates the fight betwixt Neo and hundreds of Agent Smiths in The Matrix Reloaded.^{[9] [35]} The scene in which the Beast prompts an axe member to dial him harder is reminiscent of a similar scene in Raging Bull, with Robert De Niro's grapheme prompting Joe Pesci's character.^[44]

The concluding scene, in which the beggar tries to sell martial arts manuals, refers directly to the greatest skills in Louis Cha'south Condor Trilogy (9 Yang Transmission, "Yiyang Finger", and "Xviii Dragon Subduing Palms"), "Thousand Hand Divine Fist", and The Smiling, Proud Wanderer ("Nine Swords of Dugu"). The scene in which the landlady confronts Brother Sum in the back of his motorcar is a homage to Bruce Lee in Way of the Dragon, where she cracks her knuckles and gives a quick upper nod to the mafia dominate, telling him to back off.^[47]

Releases [edit]

Kung Fu Hustle premiered at the 2004 Toronto International Moving picture Festival.^[48] It was later released across Due east Asia including China, Hong Kong and Malaysia in December 2004.^[49] The film was first shown in the United states of america at the Sundance Film Festival in Jan 2005,^[l] and then opened in a general release on 22 April 2005 after existence shown in Los Angeles and New York for two weeks.^[51]

The Due north American DVD release was on 8 August 2005.^[52] A Blu-ray version of the DVD was released on 12 Dec 2006 by Sony Pictures. A UMD version of the film was released for the PlayStation Portable.^[53] The United States DVD releases were censored, cutting a number of scenes that featured lots of blood or human excrement. A subsequently release, called "The Kick-Axe Edition", restored these scenes.^{[54] [55]}

In the United Kingdom the standard DVD was released 24 October 2005, the same day a special edition was released with collector'southward items, which included playing cards, a keyring, a sweat band, and an inflatable axe.^{[56] [57]} On viii Apr 2007, Sony Pictures Abode Entertainment released a Blu-ray version.^[58]

The Portuguese title of the motion picture is Kungfusão, which sounds like Kung Fu and Confusão (confusion).^[59] In the same way equally Kungfusão, the Italian and Castilian titles were Kung-fusion and Kung-fusión, puns of "confusion".^{[60] [61]} In France, the film is known as Crazy Kung Fu, and the Hungarian title is A Pofonok Földje, meaning The Country of Punches.^{[62] [63]}

In Korea a Express Collector's Edition DVD was released which included a leather wallet, Stephen Grub'southward Palm Figure with his signature, a photo album and Special Kung Fu's Booklet with a certificate of authenticity.^[64]

Reception [edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the pic received a xc% approval rating based on 182 reviews and an average rating of seven.7/x. The site's critical consensus reads: "Kung Fu Hustle blends special effects, martial arts, and the Looney Toons to hilarious result."^[52] On Metacritic, the moving picture received a score of 78 out of 100 based on 38 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."^[65]

Hong Kong director and picture show critic Gabriel Wong praised the picture for its black comedy, special effects and nostalgia, citing the return of many retired kung fu actors from the 1970s.^[66] Film critic Roger Ebert'southward description of the picture ("similar Jackie Chan and Buster Keaton encounter Quentin Tarantino and Bugs Bunny") was printed on the promotion posters for the motion-picture show in the Us.^{[67] [68]} Other critics described it as a comedic version of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.^[69] Positive reviews generally gave credit to the elements of mo lei tau comedy nowadays in the flick.^[70] A number of reviewers viewed it every bit a computer-enhanced Looney Tunes punch-upwardly.^{[52] [71]} In a 2010 interview, actor Bill Murray called Kung Fu Hustle "the supreme accomplishment of the modern age in terms of comedy".^[72] In 2021, American filmmaker James Gunn called it "the greatest flick ever made".^[73]

The combination of the necessary cynicism and sentential nostalgia which makes the audition laugh implies that a world of human being complexity is below the interesting deceptive surface.^[34]

Much of the criticism for the film was directed at its lack of grapheme evolution and a coherent plot. Las Vegas Weekly, for case, criticised the film for non having enough of a central protagonist and character depth.^[74] Criticism was also directed towards the flick'southward cartoonish and childish sense of humor.^[75] Nevertheless, it was considered reasonable, equally the Kung Fu Hustle product team chose to brand the pic's characters largely ane-dimensional. In the movie, the directors "attempt(ed) to appeal to a transnational audition, affirms distinctly Western notions of Chinese that many earlier Kung Fu films gear up out to subvert."^[seven] The Kung Fu Hustle squad attempt to appeal to a more progressive generation throughout the history of Chinese cinema. Before in the kung fu movie industry, it normally involved circuitous characters, and also tried to explore and betrayal constructs ranging from gender to race as well as to nation.^[7] One-dimension is the key feature of Kung Fu Hustle, as it is rooted in a filmic genre that continued with Hong Kong identity, just also represented the Western imagination of People's republic of china's past and Kung Fu heroism.^[7]

Box office [edit]

Kung Fu Hustle opened in Hong Kong on 23 Dec 2004, and earned HK$4,990,000 on its opening 24-hour interval. It stayed at the top of the box office for the rest of 2004 and for much of early 2005, eventually grossing HK$61.27 million. Its box office tally made it the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong history,^[76] until it was beaten by You lot Are the Apple tree of My Centre in 2011.^[76] The phenomenal box part this work generated as well as the collective pleasure its local audition experienced potentially saved the Hong Kong film industry during a politically unstable time in the territory.^[34]

Sony Pictures Classics opened Kung Fu Hustle in limited theatrical release in New York City and Los Angeles on 8 Apr 2005 before being widely released across Due north America on 22 April. In its first calendar week of limited release in 7 cinemas, it grossed US$269,225 (U.s.a.$38,461 per screen).^[77] When it was expanded to a wide release in 2,503 cinemas, the largest number of cinemas e'er for a foreign language film, it made a modest United states of america$6,749,572 (United states$2,696 per screen), eventually grossing a total of Usa$17,108,591 in 129 days. In total, Kung Fu Hustle had a worldwide gross of Usa$101,104,669.^[78] While not a blockbuster, Kung Fu Hustle managed to become the highest-grossing foreign-language film in North America in 2005^[79] and went on to generate more than than United states$30,000,000 in the United States home video market.^[lxxx]

Awards and nominations [edit]

The film was nominated for sixteen Hong Kong Film Awards, out of which winning Best Picture, Best Action Choreography, Best Motion-picture show Editing, All-time Sound Effects, Best Supporting Thespian and Best Visual Effects.^[81] V more than awards were later picked upwards at the Golden Horse Awards including an honor for Best Managing director for Stephen Chow.^[82] In the Us Kung Fu Hustle was well received past various movie critic associations winning awards for Best Foreign Language Film from Boston-, Chicago-, Las Vegas- and Phoenix-based critics.^[83] it was afterwards nominated for six Satellite Awards^[84] and 1 MTV Movie Honor for best fight scene.^[85] In the United Kingdom at 59th British Academy Film Awards the film was nominated for a BAFTA.^[86]

In 2011, the Taipei Golden Equus caballus Film Festival listed Kung Fu Hustle at number 48 in their listing of "100 Greatest Chinese-Linguistic communication Films".^[87] The majority of the voters originated from Taiwan, and included film scholars, festival programmers, motion picture directors, actors and producers.^[87] In 2014, Time Out polled several film critics, directors, actors and stunt actors to listing their elevation activeness films.^[88] Kung Fu Hustle was listed at 50th identify on this list.^[89]

Laurels / Motion picture Festival	Category	Recipient(s)	Outcome
Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival[90]		Stephen Chow	Won
BAFTA Awards[86]	Best Moving picture non in the English Language	Stephen Grub Bo-Chu Chui Jeffrey Lau	Nominated
Boston Society of Picture show Critics Awards[91]	Best Foreign Language Film		Won
Circulate Film Critics Clan Awards[83]	Best Strange-Linguistic communication Movie		Won
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards[83]	Best Foreign Linguistic communication Film		Nominated
Florida Motion picture Critics Circumvolve Awards[92]	Best Foreign Film		Won
Gilt World Honour (Usa)[93]	All-time Foreign Language Film		Nominated
Gilt Horse Awards[82]	All-time Manager	Stephen Grub	Won
	Best Film		Won
	Best Make Up & Costume Design	Shirley Chan	Won
	Best Supporting Actress	Qiu Yuen	Won
	Best Visual Effect	Frankie Chung Don Ma Tam Kai Kwan Hung Franco	Won
	All-time Action Choreography	Woo-ping Yuen	Nominated
	Best Art Direction	Oliver Wong	Nominated
	All-time Editing	Angie Lam	Nominated
	Best Sound Effects	Steve Burgess Steven Ticknor Robert Mackenzie Paul Pirola	Nominated
	All-time Supporting Player	Wah Yuen	Nominated
Aureate Trailer Awards[94]	All-time Foreign	(Winston Davis & Associates).	Nominated
Hong Kong Picture Awards[81]	All-time Action Choreography	Woo-ping Yuen	Won
	Best Film Editing	Angie Lam	Won
	Best Picture		Won
	Best Sound Furnishings	Steven Ticknor Steve Burgess Robert Mackenzie Paul Pirola	Won
	Best Supporting Actor	Wah Yuen	Won
	Best Visual Effects	Frankie Chung Ma Wing-On Tam Kai-Kwun Hung Lau-Leung	Won
	Best Thespian	Stephen Grub	Nominated
	Best Actress	Qiu Yuen	Nominated
	Best Fine art Direction	Oliver Wong	Nominated
	Best Cinematography	Hang-Sang Poon	Nominated
	Best Costume Design and Make Up	Shirley Chan	Nominated
	Best Director	Stephen Chow	Nominated
	All-time New Artist	Shengyi Huang	Nominated
	Best Original Motion-picture show Score	Ying-Wah Wong	Nominated
	Best Screenplay	Stephen Chow Kan-Cheung Tsang KXin Huo KMan Keung Chan	Nominated
	All-time Supporting Actor	Kwok-Kwan Chan	Nominated
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards[95]	Film of Merit		Won
Hundred Flowers Awards[96]	Best Supporting Actress	Qiu Yuen	Won
	Best Thespian	Stephen Chow	Nominated
	Best Director	Stephen Chow	Nominated
	Best Film		Nominated
	Best Newcomer	Shengyi Huang	Nominated
	Best Supporting Actor	Wah Yuen	Nominated
Las Vegas Flick Critics Order Awards[83]	Best Foreign Film		Won
MTV Movie Awards[85]	All-time Fight		Nominated
Motion Pic Sound Editors (USA)[ citation needed ]	Best Sound Editing in Feature Film – Strange	Steve Burgess (supervising sound editor) Chris Goodes (sound editor) Vic Kaspar (sound editor) Jo Mion (sound editor) Andrew Neil (audio editor) Paul Pirola (audio design) Steven Ticknor (sound design) Mario Vaccaro (foley artist)	Nominated
Online Flick Critics Social club Awards[97]	Best Foreign Language Film		Nominated
Phoenix Moving-picture show Critics Society Awards[83]	Best Foreign Language Film	Stephen Chow	Won
Satellite Awards[84]	Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Part, Comedy or Musical	Qiu Yuen	Nominated
	Outstanding Cinematography	Hang-Sang Poon	Nominated
	Outstanding Picture show Editing	Angie Lam	Nominated
	Outstanding Motility Picture, Comedy or Musical		Nominated
	Outstanding Sound (Mixing & Editing)	Paul Pirola	Nominated
	Outstanding Visual Furnishings	Frankie Chung	Nominated
Shanghai Moving picture Critics Awards[98]	Superlative x Films		Won
Southeastern Film Critics Clan Awards[99]	All-time Foreign Language Picture China/Hong Kong.		Nominated (Runner-upwards)

Sequel [edit]

In 2005, Grub announced that there would be a sequel to Kung Fu Hustle, although he had not settled on a female pb. "There will be a lot of new characters in the flick. We'll need a lot of new actors. Information technology's possible that we'll look for people abroad besides casting locals".^[100] In January 2013, during an interview, Grub admitted that plans for making Kung Fu Hustle ii have been put on agree. "I was indeed in the midst of making the pic, but it is currently put on hold in view of other incoming projects".^[101] Production of Kung Fu Hustle ii was delayed while Chow filmed the science fiction adventure pic CJ7. As a result, Kung Fu Hustle 2 was slated for a 2014 release.^[102] Past 2017, Chow had already completed The Mermaid and Journey to the Westward: The Demons Strike Back. Due to his focus on backside-the-scenes product and the fact that he has not fabricated an appearance since CJ7, it was suspected that he had stopped acting. Still, Chow antiseptic that he still wants to act, only has not found a role suited for him. Kung Fu Hustle 2 remains incomplete.^[103] In February 2019, during a promo interview for The New King of One-act, Stephen confirmed that the sequel is in the works. He volition direct the movie and perhaps cameo in the film, but the story will non be a direct sequel to the first 1. Chow explains the sequel will exist a spiritual successor to the first one, but set up in modern times.^[104]

Games [edit]

Online and mobile games [edit]

In 2004 a promotional flash game was released by Sony Pictures Entertainment on their Japanese website.^[105] The game was created by Japanese game developer Point Zero and plays as a betoken-and-click beat 'em upward.^[106] A side-scrolling game designed for mobile phones was later released in 2006 past developer Tracebit.^[107]

MMO [edit]

In 2007 Sony Online Entertainment appear that a massively multiplayer online 2nd side-scrolling fighter game based on the film was nether development for the Chinese market place. Two years later a preview of the game was featured at E3 where it received mixed reviews from critics with many comparing it to similar MMO games such every bit Guild Wars and Phantasy Star Online.^[108]

A North American release for PC and PS3 was planned for tardily 2009,^[108] but never came to fruition. The game was only available in Asia for the PC.^[109]

See also [edit]

• Cinema of Hong Kong
• Cinema of People's republic of china
• Kung Fu Panda (film)—A 2008 Hollywood moving picture inspired by Kung Fu Hustle.
• Chandni Chowk to China—A 2009 Bollywood motion-picture show inspired by Kung Fu Hustle.^[110]
• Listing of films featuring the deaf and hard of hearing

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• Kung Fu Hustle at IMDb
• Kung Fu Hustle at LoveHKFilm.com
• Kung Fu Hustle at AllMovie
• The Half dozen Degrees of Stephen Chow and Kung Fu Hustle

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