Fearless Hyena Full Movie

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Juliane Bari

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:17:43 PM8/3/24
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I think Jackie had to film some of Dragon Lord in Korea - as well as come to the states to film The Big Brawl - just to get away from Lo Wei and his triad connections; I guess Jackie walked away from his contract, and Lo Wei put a price on his head.

Lo Wei never put a price on Jackie's head... But Jackie was scared none the less. He fled Korea in the middle of the night. Lo sent his wife to talk to him. I've never heard Jackie speak about Jimmy's involvement, but heard it from a lot of other sources.

I remember that Toby Russell mentioned on Facebook that some of the footage in FH 2 came from before the first movie i.e. deleted footage from Spiritual Kung Fu.

As for what's been said about Jimmy Wang Yu's favour projects, Jackie was polite when talking about it in the January '96 issue of Impact...

Impact: You mentioned that you never had pressure put on you to make films, but you did make a film for Wang Yu in Taiwan, Island of Fire. Why did do you that?

Jackie: Because of Wang Yu. He watched me grow up. When I was young, he was already a big star. You already know Wang Yu's (Triad) background. For all those years, he treated me like his younger brother. He asked me to come and help him, to be a guest star, but there wasn't any pressure. Some other people, yes. Not me.

The gambling fight (the one with the shoe bit) was taken from Spiritual Kung Fu according to the below Japanese site which specifies the source of various scenes. Spiritual Kung Fu is the one that Google translates as Kite Juhachiten.

It seems like what's identified as "Kite Juhachiten" in that blog is a unfinished production (seperate from "Spiritual Kung Fu") that was started after "Dragon Fist" completed shooting but abandoned when Jackie returned to complete shooting on "Drunken Master" and then moved on to "Fearless Hyena". The blog post seems to make the case that this is origin of the footage used in "Fearless Hyena II" by using information on the shooting schedules from trade mags of the time, and observing Jackie's haircut/appearance in the footage, etc.,

Also another blog post in the same series of posts (which all go into determining the production history/shooting schedule, etc.) talks about "Spiritual Kung Fu" as a seperate movie who's shooting was completed before "Dragon Fist" started:

When I translated it back into Japanese, I copied and pasted the characters into the translate page (i.e. the translate.google one) where 鬼手十八翻 came out as Ghost Hand Eighteen Turns. Perhaps it was a sequel to Spiritual Kung Fu where Jackie was kicked out of the temple and forced to live with his dad or something.

Very interesting, if true. The Lo Wei era was certainly busy for Jackie - maybe even he didn't know which movie he was filming for at any given time. Perhaps the alleged behind the scenes confusion over TKWI's plot stems from multiple near-simultaneous productions.


If this hypothetical movie did start after Dragon Fist wrapped, and Fearless Hyena did not begin until Kite Whatever was abandoned... Per the timeline Cognoscente posted elsewhere, that would be a window somewhere around August-October of 1978, which overlaps with the tail end of Drunken Master.

I vaguely remember (I haven't read it in 20 years) a section of I Am Jackie Chan where he described Fearless Hyena as starting with Lo Wei behind the camera, before Jackie insisted that he have creative control so as to not spoil his current wave of success. Maybe he was misremembering (or misquoted) this forgotten movie, which was then scrapped in favor of his own directorial debut? That could be a good way to explain the discrepancy.

What's interesting is that in the same blog post, it's also theorized that that the hypothetical abandoned movie is partly the basis for some elements seen eventually in "Fearless Hyena" because of some similarities in the descriptions in the trade mags. Jackie could be thinking of the scrapped movie as an early version of what eventually became "fearless Hyena".

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