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In the UK, it was released as Master with Cracked Fingers by Mia Video Entertainment (1998). As Snake Fist Fighter, the film was given two releases through Simitar Entertainment (1997), one in a twin video pack with New Fist of Fury. Madacy released the film with the slightly different title Master with Cracked Finger (singular) in 1996, and later in a twin video pack along with Fantasy Mission Force (2000). In the US, it was released as Master with Cracked Fingers by Xenon (1996), and Woodhaven Entertainment (1999). Īs Chan became more popular in the West, particularly after the US release of Rumble in the Bronx (1996), the rights to release the film on VHS were passed or shared between a number of different film distributors. Randall later sold the rights to 21st Century Distribution, who gave the film a limited release in American cinemas in 1981 under the alternative title Snake Fist Fighter. Jackie Chan and Fu Yai Se were martial arts directors on the film.ĭick Randall took the amalgamated footage and employed actors to dub it into English, titling it Master with Cracked Fingers. A rather obvious Jackie Chan double was also hired and fought blind-folded in an attempt to hide the doubling from the viewers. Additional material from the Drunken Master era and new footage of Dean Shek and Yuen Siu Tien (in another appearance of his beggar character), was tacked on. After Chan had become famous through films like Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master in the late 1970s, the footage was re-edited. The film was concocted using footage from other films, primarily from a little-seen independent 1973 film entitled Little Tiger of Canton (aka The Cub Tiger From Kwang Tung) which featured a teenage Chan in one of his earliest roles. Lung/Jackie (as Chan Yuan Lung / Cheng Lung)
To avenge his father's death, Jackie agrees to a blindfolded fight against the gang leader, ( Kwan Yung-moon).Ĭast Original footage Cast In retribution, the gang burn down his house, killing Jackie's father.
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After a series of fights with a local gang of extortionists, and progressively more severe punishments from his father, he fends off the gang once more. After years of training under his sifu, his skills advance, but his father forbids him to practice. He later meets a beggar, "The Man Who Isn't There", who offers to teach him the secrets of fighting. Jackie has been intrigued by kung fu since always, but he cannot afford to pay for lessons. The dynamic and undisciplined Jackie (Jackie Chan) undergoes the tutelage of a nomadic master who has a rigorous training style focusing upon the hardening of the fist. The film has a similar theme to Drunken Master (1978).
The re-edited version entitled Master with Cracked Fingers was not actually released until 1979. The original footage was filmed in 1971 and released in 1973 as Little Tiger of Canton. It is often cited as being produced in 1971, 1973, 1974 or 1981.
Master with Cracked Fingers ( Chinese: 刁手怪招 pinyin: diāo shǒu guài zhāo), also released as Snake Fist Fighter, is a 1979 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Mu Chu and starring Jackie Chan.
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