Another Lau Kar Leung masterpiece. This Kung Fu comedy is really amazing. With it’s themes of family and respecting your elders, and the stellar performance of Hui Ying Hung which won her Best Actress at the 1st HK Film Awards. Damn is she bad ass is this film! Sure the generational differences are too much, and the characters are caricatures, but the kung fu is amazing, and the film is really fun.

Hui Ying Hung plays Juan Dai Nan, a young ward of the senior surviving member of the Yu family marries Yu so she can hand over his inheritance to Yu Jing Chuen (Lau Kar Leung) the eldest son of the already deceased eldest Yu brother, and keep the inheritance away from the evil Third Uncle (Johnny Wang Lung Wei). Dai Nan travels to find Yu Jing Chuen, and also meets his son Charlie Yu Tao (Hsiao Ho) who takes exception to having an Auntie who is the same age as him. He ends up playing pranks on her with her friends, and they end up at the police station after a fight, and the inheritance paper’s are stolen. Dai Nan and Charlie go to recruit Jing Chuen’s other brothers to help get the papers back, but when they realize how old they are, the two decide to go in alone. After a huge fight Dai Nan is captured so Charlie (who is learning English in Hong Kong, so he always speaks English and fights in an army outfit) goes back to get his father and uncles, who come in and defeat Third Uncle’s men, and then Yu Jing Chuen defeats 3rd Uncle. The film ends with Di Nian dressed as she was at a party with blond hair, and she now speaks English. Ha!

This is such a fun film, with generational differences, as well as Juan Dai Nan seeing the city in the 1930’s for the first time, and flipping out over all the city stuff. Even dressing in a gorgeous dress, but being unable to walk in high heals and getting in a fight.

This film is just wonderful and so much fun. I must thank my friend Jeff Briggs for lending it to me. Lau Kar Leung just made so many amazing films, it really blows me away.