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Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
A movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old together. As the main character, The Chosen One, Oedekerk sets off to avenge the deaths of his parents at the hands of kung-fu legend Master Pain. Along the way he encounters some strange characters.
2002 · Directed by Steve Oedekerk · 81 min · Comedy · Action · Adventure · 10 frames
Tagline
If you've got an ass...he'll kick it!
Crew
- Written by: Steve Oedekerk
- Cinematography: John J. Connor
- Edited by: Paul Marshal
- Music: Robert Folk
- Production design: Sean Mannion, Hector Velez
- Produced by: Tom Koranda, Steve Oedekerk, Paul Marshal
Cast
- Steve Oedekerk as The Chosen One
- Lung Fei as Master Pain (Betty) (archive footage)
- Leo Lee as Young Master Pain
- Hsieh Ling-ling as Ling (archive footage)
- Lau Kar-Wing as Wimp Lo (archive footage)
- Lin Yan as Dying Ling
- Chen Hui-Lou as Master Tang (archive footage)
- Jennifer Tung as Whoa
- Ming Lo as Father
- Peggy Lu as Mother
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: O Entertainment, 20th Century Fox
- Budget: $10,000,000
- Box office: $17,000,000
- Themes: martial arts, loss of loved one, invulnerability, spoof, super power, evil, murder hunt, playful
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