Snake & Crane Arts of Shaolin
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| Directed by | Chen Chi Hwa |
| Produced by | Lo Wei Hwa Hsu Li |
| Starring | Jackie Chan Sheng Wang Chi Kim Kong Nora Miao |
| Music by | Leung Chow Fook |
| Release date(s) | 1978 |
| Running time | 93 mins |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
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Snake & Crane Arts of Shaolin (traditional Chinese: 蛇鶴八步) is a 1978 Hong Kong action film directed by Chen Chi Hwa and starring Jackie Chan. It was released by the Lo Wei Motion Picture Company, a subsidiary of Golden Harvest. Along with Tu Wi Ho, Chan was also the film's stunt co-ordinator.
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Chan stars as the wanderer Hsu Yiu Fong, who quickly makes it known (with some help) that he possesses the "Snake and Crane Book", a martial arts tome that describes the ultimate kung fu style, "Eight Steps of the Snake and Crane". The book was penned by eight Shaolin masters shortly before they disappeared, and Hsu is suspected of killing them, or at the very least knowing what happened. In reality, Hsu is looking for the man responsible for the masters' disappearance, whom he will know by a certain mark.
After several fights, and encounters with the leaders of many fighting clans (all of whom want the book and are willing to offer a variety of things for it), Hsu is betrayed, hurt, and eventually captured. He escapes with an unlikely ally in tow, while the rest of the clan leaders, having put aside their differences, search high and low for him. Eventually Hsu finds the man with the mark, the other clan leaders learn the fate of the Shaolin Masters, and in an epic fight involving the Snake and Crane style, Hsu defeats the villain.
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