Magnificent Butcher
By admin on 2015-01-14

Magnificent Butcher is a 1979 martial arts-action film directed by Sammo Hung and Yuen Woo Ping. 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 dsiciples, Leung Foon, a role he would reprise years later in the film Once Upon a Time in China. Magnificent Butcher was produced as Hung's attempt to duplicate the success of Jackie Chan's 1978 kung fu-comedy film Drunken Master, in which Chan plays Wong Fei Hung. Drunken Master heavily features the Beggar So character, who is also in Magnificent Butcher. Yuen Siu Tien plays Beggar So in Drunken Master and was the first choice for the role in Magnificent Butcher, but he died before Magnificent Butcher's production began and was replaced with Fan Mei-Sheng, which may have adversely affected the film's profit.