Shaolin Soccer
Director: Stephen Chow
Genre: Martial arts, Comedy, Action, Action/Adventure, World cinema, Sports, Chinese Movies
Year: 2001
Country: Hong Kong, China
Language: Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Standard Mandarin
Starring: Stephen Chow, Zhao Wei, Ng Man Tat, Patrick Tse Yin, Cecilia Cheung, Vincent Kok, Karen Mok, Yut Fei Wong, Chan Kwok Kuen, Kai Man Tin, Nicholas Tse
Shaolin Soccer is a 2001 Hong Kong comedy film co-written, directed by and starring Stephen Chow. A former Shaolin monk reunites his five brothers, years after their master's death, to apply their superhuman martial arts skills to play soccer and bring Shaolin kung fu to the masses.
In 2008 a sequel, produced by, but not starring Stephen Chow, was released entitled Shaolin Girl. Very few of the cast from the original film made an appearance.
Sing (Stephen Chow) is a master of Shaolin kung fu, whose goal in life is to promote the spiritual and practical benefits of the art to modern society. He experiments with various methods to inform the modern world about shaolin kung fu, some of which include comedic song and dance routines, but all bear no positive results. He then meets "Golden Leg" Fung (Ng Man Tat), a legendary Hong Kong soccer star in his day, who is now walking with a limp, following the treachery of a former teammate Hung, now a rich businessman.
Sing explains his desires to promote the modern uses of kung fu to Fung, who initially is unconvinced with Sing's idea and brushes off his pleas. When Fung realizes Sing has superior muscular power in his right foot, however, he
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