Snake In The Monkeys Shadow

A snake style expert travels the lands, imposing his mastery on others, until he runs into a monkey expert living on the edge of a small town, who defeats him soundly. The snake expert leaves vowing vengeance. A young peasant boy who is bullied by local noblemen ks to learn drunken boxing from the head of a local martial arts school. The boys learns and eventually meets and befriends the monkey style expert. When the boy beats up his previous tormentors, the nobles patriarch challenges the boys teacher, the drunken master, who defeats the lot of them. Embarrased, the nobles retain two hired snake style killers, one of whom is the expert that that was beaten by the monkey style. They kill everyone except the peasant boy, feeling he is to weak and unskilled to be worth their honour. The peasant combines drunken' boxing with monkey style in an attempt to put down the snake killers. Written by M. Astaphan Snake In The Monkeys Shadow is a 1979 Mandarin-language Action Drama film starring John Cheung Ng-long, Wilson Tong Wai-shing, Charlie Chan Yiu-lam, John Cheung, Yao Lin Chen, Pomson Shi and Tse Wan Yau. Snake In The Monkeys Shadow was Produced by Alex Gouw. The movie is directed by Cheung Sum. Goldig Films LTD. acquired the distribution rights for the film. Snake In The Monkeys Shadow was released on 15th February 1979 and takes a screen time of 100 min. Cinematography was done by Fan Chuan-lin. The music was composed by Chow Fook-liang.