Combine Bruce Lee films with Looney Tunes and the Matrix, and you get the eye-popping action sequences and zany gags of Kung Fu Hustle, Stephen Chow’s follow-up to Shaolin Soccer. With Hong Kong movie legends Yuen Qiu and Leung Siu Lung, Chow stars in this gang-war story set in a 1930’s slum. Sing (Chow) is a wannabe thug who hustles a living on the mean streets run by the Axe Gang. The local landlady is a terror who can flatten buildings with a yell, her husband can kick people across the street, and a pair of musical assassins shoots lethal projectiles from their magic lyres! Common people
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