# The Prodigal Son 敗家仔 (1981) with Original Cantonese Audio, Mandarin Dub & English Dub (English Subtitled)

The Prodigal Son (Chinese: 敗家仔) is a 1981 Hong Kong martial arts and semi-biographical film directed by Sammo Hung and co-written with Barry Wong . The film stars Yuen Biao , Lam Ching-ying , and Frankie Chan . The film was released on 22 December 1981 and grossed HK$9,150,729. The Prodigal Son was nominated for two Hong Kong Film Awards and won the award for Best Action Choreography . The film is a fictional retelling of the life of Leung Jan , a practitioner of Wing Chun . In this movie, Leung Jan, or as he is called in the movie Leung Chang, is depicted as the son of a wealthy man who is half-heartedly studying kung fu. Leung Chang's lack of expertise forces his father to pay people to lose to him in fights. After Leung Chang discovers that his father has been deceiving him, he becomes inspired to study martial arts more seriously and attempts to convince a kung fu expert to take him on as a student. Plot Leung Chang is a young man in a wealthy family living in Foshan in the mid-19th century. He is a martial artist trained by two instructors in his father's employ. He has fought over three hundred times in Foshan and won every fight, but unbeknownst to him, his father has arranged for his servant Yee Tung-choi to bribe Chang's opponents to lose to him in order to protect him. This has caused Chang to believe that he is a world-class fighter, but in truth he hasn't even mastered the basics of kung fu and any real fighter could easily defeat him. Everyone knows this but…

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 2026
- By: KonstantineCategory3
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/the-prodigal-son-1981-original)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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