Brother Sum offers Sing immediate gang membership if he uses his lock-picking skills to free the Beast, a legendary assassin, from a mental asylum. When she recognizes him and offers him a lollipop, he smashes it and leaves in shame. They successfully eliminate the three masters but are defeated by both the Landlady and her husband Landlord, who reveal themselves to be skilled fighters as well.Ī frustrated Sing attempts to rob an ice cream vendor but discovers that she is actually Fong. Meanwhile, Brother Sum, intent on gaining revenge on the Pigsty Alley residents, hires two Harpists that use a magical guzheng as their weapon. Sing, injured in the process, retreats to a traffic pulpit where his body mysteriously heals in no time. Sing and Bone return to Pigsty Alley to kill the Landlady but fail and are chased off the premises. Sing became adamant that heroes never win and resolved to be a villain. After practicing the pamphlet's Buddhist Palm technique, Sing attempted to save a mute girl named Fong from bullies but was instead beaten and humiliated. Sing recalls his childhood to Bone when he was tricked by a vagrant into buying a martial arts pamphlet with his meager savings. Impressed, Brother Sum allows them to join the gang on the condition that they kill someone. However, fearing the Axe Gang's retaliation, the slum's Landlady evicts the trio.īrother Sum captures Sing and Bone, intending to kill them for posing as gang members. Gang reinforcements arrive but they are all quickly dealt with by three of the slum's tenants: Coolie, Tailor, and Donut, who reveal they are actually kung fu masters. Sing's actions eventually attract the real gang, who confront the villagers. The pair visit a rundown slum known as Pigsty Alley to extort the residents by pretending to be Axe members. In 1940s Shanghai, petty crooks Sing and Bone aspire to join the notorious Axe Gang under the leadership of the cold-blooded killer Brother Sum. The film was re-released in 3D in October 2014 across Asia and America, marking the tenth anniversary of the film. Kung Fu Hustle won numerous awards, including six Hong Kong Film Awards and five Golden Horse Awards. It was tenth on the list of highest-grossing foreign-language films in the United States as well as the highest-grossing foreign-language film in the country in 2005. The film received positive reviews and grossed US$17 million in North America and US$84 million in other regions. The film was released on 23 December 2004 in China and on 25 January 2005 in the United States. The cartoon special effects in the film accompanied by traditional Chinese music, is often cited as its most striking feature. It 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, Hidden Dragon and Hero. After the commercial success of Shaolin Soccer, its production company, Star Overseas, began to develop the films with Columbia Pictures Asia in 2002. Kung Fu Hustle was a co-production between Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese companies, filmed in Shanghai. The martial arts choreography is supervised by Yuen Woo-ping. Eva Huang, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Danny Chan Kwok-kwan and Leung Siu-lung co-starred in prominent roles. The film tells the story of a murderous neighbourhood gang, a poor village with unlikely heroes, and an aspiring gangster's fierce journey to find his true self. 'Kung Fu') is a 2004 Cantonese-language action comedy film directed, produced, co-written by, and starring Stephen Chow.
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