Magnificent Bodyguards

Magnificent Bodyguards
	UK DVD cover
Traditional	飛渡捲雲山
Simplified	飞渡捲云山
Mandarin	Fēi Dù Juǎn Yún Shān
Cantonese	Fei1 Dou6 Gyun2 Wan4 Saan1
Directed by	Lo Wei
Produced by	Lo Wei
Screenplay by	Gu Long
Starring	Jackie Chan; James Tien; Leung Siu-lung
Music by	Frankie Chan
Cinematography	Chen Yung-shu
Edited by	Vincent Leung
Production; company	Lo Wei Motion Picture Company
Release date	27 April 1978;
Running time	78 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Mandarin
Box office	HK$775,522 (Hong Kong)[1] ; 228,626 tickets (Seoul)[2]

Magnificent Bodyguards is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts action film starring Jackie Chan and directed by Lo Wei.[3] Chan, along with Luk Chuen also worked as stunt coordinators. This film was well received in Hong Kong, but Chan himself doesn't like it. He puts it down to Lo Wei not giving him any creative freedom. This was the first film in Hong Kong to be filmed using 3-D technology, and it features music from Star Wars.[3]

Plot

Lord Ting Chung is hired to escort a woman's sick brother to the doctor, but he does it for free. To get there they must pass through "Stormy Hills", an area of Ancient China controlled by criminals. Then the sick man turns out to be the king of the criminals and is not really sick; he is just trying to reclaim his throne from an imposter. The king had previously murdered Ting Chung's father, and now Ting Chung has to fight for his life to get out and also to avenge his father.

Cast

Jackie Chan as Lord Ting Chung
James Tien as Tsang / Chang Wu-yi
Leung Siu-lung as Chang
Wang Ping as Lady Nan
Lau Ming as Old Lady of Ma Por Inn
Lee Man-tai as Bearded Shaolin Abbot
Luk Chuen as King
Fang Fang as Liu Chin-lien
Ko Keung as Wen Liang-yu

Media

The Japanese Laserdisc is said to be the only version containing the 3D version, though the only audio language option is Japanese and it is missing 10 minutes of footage.
On 22 March 2002, Eastern Heroes released it on DVD cropped from 2:35:1 to 1:78:1 and an English dub (edited to remove Star Wars music) with no other language options.
On 28 October 2005, Universal Japan released their DVD in 2:35:1. However, it has no English subtitles.
On 5 March 2007, Hong Kong Legends released their DVD in 2:35:1 in Cantonese with newly translated English subtitles. However, the Cantonese "mono" is a downmix from the 5.1 remix. Mandarin is the correct language.
In 2010, Fortune Star/Shout Factory released the film as part of the "Jackie Chan Eight Film Collection" DVD set. It is in 2:35:1, features the mono English dub, as well as the Star Wars music cues edited out of other versions.

References

"Magnificent Bodyguards (1978)". Hong Kong Movie Database. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
"영화정보" [Movie Information]. KOFIC (in Korean). Korean Film Council. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
Maçek III, J.C. (2 October 2013). "It's Pure Kung Fu Theatre and Somehow, 'Star Wars' in 'Jackie Chan Beginnings'". PopMatters. Retrieved 17 July 2014.

External links

Magnificent Bodyguards at IMDb

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[1] "Magnificent Bodyguards (1978)". Hong Kong Movie Database. Retrieved 23 June 2020.

[2] "영화정보" [Movie Information]. KOFIC (in Korean). Korean Film Council. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.

[PM-3] Maçek III, J.C. (2 October 2013). "It's Pure Kung Fu Theatre and Somehow, 'Star Wars' in 'Jackie Chan Beginnings'". PopMatters. Retrieved 17 July 2014.