DRUNKEN MASTER (1978)

Drunken Master cemented Jackie Chan’s career as a comedic martial-arts actor in Asia. The film popularised Chan’s iconic ‘drunken fist’ fighting style, which the actor continued to use throughout his long career. The fighting style has repeatedly been replicated in successful Hollywood film franchises including buddy-cop comedies Rush Hour (19982007) with Chris Tucker, and Shanghai Noon (2000) and Shanghai Knights (2003) with Owen Wilson.

Like Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon, Jackie Chan’s Drunken Master was also a major inspiration for Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama, notably inspiring the name of the character Jackie Chun, who also uses the ‘drunken fist’ fighting style. The film also influenced a number of martial-arts video games decades later, including the PlayStation game Jackie Chan Stuntmaster (2000) and Street Fighter X Tekken (2012), which both used Chan’s popular fight style.