Five of Jackie Chan’s best films remembered as he celebrates his 64th birthday
From Drunken Master to Who Am I?, Police Story and Rumble in the Bronx, Hong Kong action film star Chan has appeared in more than 130 films. To celebrate his birthday on April 7, we share our five favourite Chan films
Hong Kong film star Jackie Chan shows no signs of slowing down as he turns 64 on April 7. With 136 film credits to his name in a career that spans 56 years and two continents, we look back at five of his best.
Drunken Master (1978)
It’s been 40 years since the release of this film, a Hong Kong box office hit. Chan plays the protagonist Wong Fei-hung, a Chinese martial artist, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and a revolutionary who lived towards the end of the Qing dynasty.
The film popularised the Zui Quan (“drunken fist”) fighting style and ranked 3 on totalfilm.com’s 50 greatest kung fu films.