The Magnificent Kick 黃飛鴻與鬼腳七 (also known as Secret Kick of Death in the U.K)

About

he Magnificent Kick (Chinese: 黃飛鴻與鬼腳七) (also known as Secret Kick of Death in the U.K) is a 1980 Hong Kong martial arts biography film. The film is a flashback story of the life of Wong Fei Hung, the Chinese martial arts master and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity, and is named after his trademark move- a kick too fast to be countered, known as 'the shadowless kick'. The director is Daniel Lau Tan Ching, and the producer is Ng Why. The film stars Kwan Tak-hing, Jason Pai Piao, Cecilla Wong and Han Ying-chieh.[1] The production company is Friendship Films (H.K.) Co, Hsu Tang is the production manager, the screenplay is by Sze-To On, and the script supervisor is Wong Mei Ling.[2] The martial art used in the film by Kwan Tak-hing is Hung Ga / Hung Gar.[3][4]

Kwan Tak-hing as Wong Fei Hung

Kwan Tak-hing played the role of the famous chinese martial artist and physician Wong Fei Hung (1847-1924) in 77 films between 1949 and 1981. That is a world record for the portrayal of one character by the same actor in feature films.[1] The first of his portrayals was in the 1949 film The Story of Huang Fei-hung Part 1, and in 1956, he starred as Fei-hung in 25 films.[5] The production of the Fei-hung films ended in 1970, but was revived in 1974 with The Skyhawk, followed by a television series, and then the films Magnificent Butcher in 1979, Magnificent Kick in 1980 and Dreadnaught in 1981.[1] [6] By the time he starred in The Magnificent Kick, Kwan Tak-hing was 75 years of age and a stunt man had to take his place for the most physical scenes.[1]

Cast

Kwan Tak-hing as Wong Fei Hung / Wong Feihong

Jason Pai Piao as Ah Su

Cecilla Wong

Han Ying-chieh

Nick Cheung Lik

Chiang Tao

Lau Hok Nin

Alan Chan Kwok

Archive

Internet Archive, in More feature films

Licence or status

CC BY 4.0, as the Internet Archive states it.

Credit

KonCategoryIII

Language

English

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