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Traditional Chinese | 醉拳二 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 醉拳二 | ||||||||||
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Directed by | Lau Kar-leung | ||||||||||
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Cinematography | Jingle Ma Tony Cheung Cheung Yiu-cho Nico Wong | ||||||||||
Edited by | Peter Cheung | ||||||||||
Music by | William Hu Michael Wandmacher | ||||||||||
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Distributed by | Golden Harvest | ||||||||||
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Running time | 102 minutes | ||||||||||
Country | Hong Kong | ||||||||||
Languages | Cantonese English | ||||||||||
Budget | HK$10 million | ||||||||||
Box office | US$34 million (est.) |
Drunken Master II (Chinese: 醉拳二; Cantonese Yale: Jui Kuen II) is a 1994 Hong Kong action-comedy kung fu film directed by Lau Kar-leung and starring Jackie Chan as Chinese martial arts master and a Cantonese folk hero, Wong Fei-hung. It was Chan's first traditional style martial arts film since Fearless Hyena Part II (1983). The film was released in North America as The Legend of Drunken Master in 2000.
The film is a sequel to Chan's 1978 film Drunken Master, directed by Yuen Woo-ping. Another film, Drunken Master III (1994, directed by Lau Kar-Leung) features little in common with either this or its predecessor, and is not considered a sequel.[by whom?] In 2005, Drunken Master II was named one of the top 100 best films of all time by Time magazine. In 2015, the British Film Institute (BFI) selected Drunken Master II as one of the ten best action movies of all time.