The Kung Fu Scholar
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Director Norman Law | 6.2/10 IMDb Duration Language Cantonese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 13 January 1994 (1994-01-13) Writer Man-Cheuk Lai, Chia Yeh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Kung Fu Scholar is a 1994 Hong Kong martial arts comedy film directed by Norman Law and starring Aaron Kwok, Vivian Chow and Dicky Cheung.
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Plot
Lun Man-chui (Dicky Cheung) and Lau Sin-hoi (Aaron Kwok) are students at Ming College who always disputed with each other. Lun is a poor but smart scholar who liked to do petty tricks on others. Lau is a straightforward and smart man who is martial artist since he was a kid. They both fall for their beautiful classmate Ching-ching (Vivian Chow), who is Headmaster Heung's (Ng Man-tat) niece. Later, a competition arises between Ming College and its rival, Oriental College. To win in the competition, Headmaster Heung hires martial arts expert Lee Tai-chun (Bryan Leung) to teach the students. Lee is being pursuited by Imperial Secret Agents and took the job to cover up his real identity. On the day of the competition, Lee was found by the Imperial Secret Agents, however, with the help of Lun and Lau, Lee manages to escape and they make their way back to the competition and triumphed. From then on, Lun and Lau become best friends.
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Box office
The film grossed HK$8,384,786 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 13 to 16 January in Hong Kong.
References
The Kung Fu Scholar WikipediaThe Kung Fu Scholar IMDb The Kung Fu Scholar themoviedb.org