Drunken Master - Imitators

Imitators

As with many successful Hong Kong action films, several films were released in the wake of Drunken Master (and its sequel) that could be considered to trade on the fame of the original films. These had less in common with the original films than the spinoffs starring Yuen Siu Tien. They include:

• The Drunken Fighter (1978)
• Drunken Swordsman (aka Drunken Dragon Strikes Back) (1979)
• The Shaolin Drunken Monk (starring Gordon Liu) (1982)
• Drunken Tai Chi (directed by Yuen Woo-ping and starring Donnie Yen) (1984)
• Revenge of the Drunken Master (1984)
• Drunken Master III (aka Drunken Master Killer) - starring Andy Lau (1994)
• The Little Drunken Masters (1995)

It should be noted that not all films that feature the Zui Quan "Drunken Fist" style (or variations on it) can be considered as imitators of the Drunken Master films. Films such as Drunken Monkey (2002) may feature a drunken style of kung fu, and in the case of The Forbidden Kingdom (2008), the same principal star, but they have a fundamentally different plot and sufficiently different title to separate them from Drunken Master.