After missing the game-winning penalty kick, Fung's “golden leg” was broken by angry baseball bat-wielding fans (hired by Hung) and had not been able to play ever since. He meets an old man called Fung (Ng Man Tat), who was a soccer star in his days until his teammate Hung, now a rich businessman, paid him to shave his points. He experiments with various methods to mainstream the art, including comedic song and dance routines, all of which bear no positive results. Shaolin Soccer tells the story of Sing (Stephen Chow), a master of Shaolinquan Kung Fu whose goal in life is to let the world know about the benefits of the ancient art. It is about a former Shaolin monk who reunites his classmates, years after their master's death, to apply their superhuman martial art skills to play soccer and bring Shaolin kung fu to the masses. Shaolin Soccer is a 2001 Hong Kong comedy film directed by acclaimed Hong Kong comedian, actor and director, Stephen Chow. According to an interview with Tsui on the Iron Monkey DVD, this delay may have had a negative affect on the film's box office returns.
The film's domestic release was delayed due to producer Tsui Hark's insistence on filming some additional comedic scenes after Yuen had finished the film. The film tells a fictionalized account of an episode in the childhood of the Chinese warrior Wong Fei Hung, and his father, Wong Kei Ying (played by Donnie Yen). However, numerous controversial edits and changes were made to film, as was the frequent practice of the time, to the intense chagrin of Hong Kong cinema fans It received good reviews in America, where it made $14 million.
The film was given a wide release in America in 2001 by Miramax Films with the backing of director Quentin Tarantino.
Iron Monkey (Chinese: 少年黃飛鴻之鐵馬騮) is the American title of the 1993 Hong Kong Kung fu movie called Siunin Wong Fei-hung tsi titmalau (a literal translation of the title is Young Wong Fei Hung: Iron Monkey), directed by Yuen Woo-ping.
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