Event Details
Sing (Stephen Chow), a former Shaolin monk known as Mighty Steel Leg, is down on his luck. Poor and unable to recruit students to carry out his dream of popularizing martial arts in the modern world, he resorts to petty theft to survive. When former soccer player Golden Leg Fung (longtime Chow collaborator Ng Man-tat) whose dreams of stardom were squashed years prior, notices Sing’s superhuman abilities, he persuades him to use his skills for soccer. Sing assembles a team of martial-arts masters to face off against a colorful swath of eccentric professional players. Stephen Chow’s slapstick sports comedy was a smash hit in Hong Kong and introduced Chow’s signature style to an international audience.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
2001 | 87 min. | Hong Kong | Color | English dubbed | Rated PG-13 | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: Stephen Chow
WRITTEN BY: Stephen Chow, Tsang Kan-cheung
WITH: Stephen Chow, Vicki Zhao, Ng Man-tat, Wong Yat-fei
35mm print courtesy of Paramount Pictures Archive.