The Magnificent Butcher
1979 Hong Kong film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Magnificent Butcher (Chinese: 林世榮) is a 1979 Hong Kong martial arts comedy film directed by Yuen Woo-ping, and starring Sammo Hung, Kwan Tak-hing, Yuen Biao, and Wei Pai.
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Traditional Chinese | 林世榮 |
Simplified Chinese | 林世荣 |
Hanyu Pinyin | Lín Shìróng |
Jyutping | Lam4 Sai3 Wing4 |
Directed by | Yuen Woo-ping |
Written by | Edward Tang |
Produced by | Raymond Chow |
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Cinematography | Ma Koon-wah |
Edited by | Peter Cheung |
Music by | Frankie Chan |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
Country | Hong Kong |
Language | Cantonese |
Box office | HK $3,945,341.40 |
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Traditional Chinese | 林世榮 | ||||||||||
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Literal meaning | "Lam Sai-wing" | ||||||||||
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The film is based on the story of Lam Sai-wing, one of the students of the legendary Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung. Hung plays "Butcher" Lam Sai-wing and Kwan Tak-hing plays Wong Fei-hung, a role he had played before in over 70 films. The film also features Hung's opera "brother" Yuen Biao as another of Wong's students, Leung Foon, a role he would reprise years later in the film Once Upon a Time in China along with Jet Li.
The Magnificent Butcher was produced as Hung's attempt to duplicate the success of Yuen's 1978 martial arts action comedy film Drunken Master, which also featured the characters of Wong and Beggar So.