^ AND I've seen a bit...Francis Ng is in it too lol. Basically it's him and Alex Man being buddies, Alex trying to make it up the social ladder. You hardly see Stephen Chow in it except being yelled at by his wife. They used to work at a clothing shop together until Alex Man went to work at the hotel Francis Ng's father owns.
The Final Combat 盖世豪侠 (1989.04.03)Runs 30 episodes. Directed by Lee Lik-Chi (李力持, frequent collaborator & director of Stephen Chow hits
God Of Cookery, From Beijing with love, Tricky Business etc.)
盖世豪侠01【粤语】 - 视频 - 优酷视频 - 在线观看This is THE groundbreaking series that launched Stephen Chow from wisecracking sidekick into SUPERSTAR. His Mo Lei Tau (Nonsense) Comedy was born in this era, he was given the chance to shine as the slacker yet cunning get rich quick fantasizer character that he'd come to portray in his blockbuster movies. Here we have your mo hup peen (wuxia / martial arts drama) setting. We have a fictional Shaolin Temple type academy "Kung Chong Pai" filled with 12 of the finest kung fu styles, led by one leader Tung Oh Tin.
The Master of the Dark Martial Arts, Yuk Leui Sun Gong "The Feminine Martial Arts" threatens to battle them. Disciples Ku Fung (played by Ng Man Tat) and Duen Hoi (played by veteran badass dad Lau Kong) try to stop their master from going into battle by stealing his kung fu manual but Duen Hoi accidentally kills a guard so he ends up framing his senior Ku Fung - and he is exiled, last seen jumping off a cliff. In comes Ku Yim Yeung, master of the Dark Kung fu - all fucked up because he tried to learn the Female Style and ended up as a tranny 4 life - and attacks the Kung Chong Pai. Ultimate battle ensues and the leader Tung Oh Tin dies, only to leave disciples Duen Hoi and Ku Fung in the running...of course Duen Hoi ends up as the leader, feeling remorse, he goes to Ku Fung's family and adopts his son as his own, as his wish to his comrade...these two sons end up being Duen Fei (Stephen Chow) and Duen Yuk Lau (Francis Ng):
The sons grow up to be complete opposites. Yuk Lau is the good son, ultimate martial arts ready to take over in the footsteps of his father as leader of Kung Chong Pai. Ah Fei is a slacker but is superbly cunning. He has no interest in martial arts and just wants to make money with his friends Ah Bil and Ah Wah (played by the late Lee Hin Ming / 李顯明). Of course, there are love interests. Suet An (gorgeously played my Yammie Lam) is a suitor / rival to Yuk Lau who happens to be the adopted daughter of his mortal enemy Ku Yim Yeung. She obediently obeys his orders and is an assassin for hire...until she runs into the fun loving Ah Fei, who crushed on her instantly. Along the way, they run into Ah Ju while running rival taverns, Ah Fei accidentally spoils another arranged marriage for Ah Ju because of Ah Fei's "Mong Ching Jau" the booze that will get you drunk FAST and make you spill all your secrets. Suet An realizes that she is doing wrong and tries to go to the good side but Ku Yim Yeung poisons her, forcing her to come home whenever he beats the drum as it makes her writhe in pain. And by some fucked up coincidence, Ku Yim Yeung's ex wife happens to be Ah Ju's mother!!
Out of frustration with his younger brother, he let's Duen Fei teach the fellow kung fu trainees, if I was to go into battle and I wasn't strong enough, would a simple "Sorry" hurt anybody? then he busts out his trademark line "坐低,飲啖茶,食個包。蓋世豪俠" "Sit Down, Eat Bun, Drink Tea" - shake hands and be friends, the world would be a better place!! So pissed off Yuk Lau is, he teaches his brother the forbidden martial arts which makes Ah Fei "die" randomly. Ah Fei and Ah Ju decide to travel to some magical land to find a cure and they run into a Blind Kung Fu Man who happens to be Ku Fung! Who himself is obsessed in getting revenge on Kung Chong Pai and his betrayal by his friend Duen Hoi.
There are really touching moments and comedic situations between Ku Fung and Ah Fei, Stephen Chow and Ng Man Tat at their finest, not the typical relationship that you see - the father and son, but more like kid and grandfather - the respect and admiration for one another is mutual. Like when they were chilling, Ku Fung reveals that Ku Yim Yeung is actually his brother (Ng Man Tat plays both in convincing fashion, right down to pure evil with a touch of feminine flair and bold uncompromising old kung fu warrior). By the end, even though all the tricks Ah Fei try to pull for Ku Fung to use his kung fu to earn him some money and how he resists "Kung Fu should not be used in the non righteous ways!" Ku Fung can't help but have a liking for the mischievous Ah Fei.
Meanwhile, so obsessed is he to defeat Ku Yim Yeung, Yuk Lau takes up learning the dark martial arts, which makes Yuk Lau turn into a green lizard everytime there's lightning strike:
Cursed, he can't let anyone know his secret, because he is now the Leader of the Kung Chong Pai. He goes into evil mode, killing people left and right, including Ah Ju's mother and crippling his father Duen Hoi whom he learns THE TRUTH! which makes him an even more twisted pile of evil, knowing Ku Fung is his real father, and he can't let this truth out and he locks him up in the basement.
In a mad rush, Ah Fei helps Ku Fung escape and they travel to another part of the country to help find a magical land to cure Ku Fung's blindness. They meet a new cast of characters along the way, Three Righteous Warriors of The King whom, the leader Chin Man Lee (Benz Hui) had challenged Ku Fung to a duel (through Ah Fei's trickery) ...eventually they find the waters to cure Ku Fung's blindness, team up with Suet An and meet the King who is superbly interested in learning all the martial arts, including the dreaded Feminine Martial Arts that'll turn you into a fucking tranny!! But he insists, and one of his other aides to go to Ku Yim Yeung and negotiate.
Also, in the mad rush, Ah Fei was tricked (made drunk by Ah Ju's mom) into marrying Ah Ju but ended up leaving her at the altar, her ninth time lol. When she witnesses her mother being murdered by Yuk Lau, she has nowhere to turn but to live with her father, Ku Yim Yeung. The Evil Aide arrives with The Prince. Evil Aide plots with Ku Yim Yeung to take out the king. Ah Ju strikes up a friendship with The Prince, in the meantime.
Paranoid and staggering from area to area trying to kill Ku Yim Yeung and trying to not turn into a green monster, Yuk Lau meets this mysterious medicine woman. She sends him to do three certain tasks (mainly to kill people lol) and he ends up on one mission in The King's Courtyard. Then DAMN we learn the Evil Aide's is Mysterious Medicine Woman's sister who they swore revenge on the King because he killed their entire family because they refused to handover their martial arts secrets.
EXTREME BATTLES! ensue...the King is poisoned and has months to live so he creates 12 balls of kung fu power to slowly digested by The Prince. We also learn that Chin Man Lee's wife is the teacher to Mysterious Medicine Woman, who basically has sex with Yuk Lau to cure his green lizardness and declares her love for him, much to Yuk Lau's reluctance - but she knows poisons so she could be of use....they try to poison / kill Ku Yim Yeung again and fail, Ah Fei and Ah Ju get trapped in a hidden area, so hungry Ah Fei ends up eating the 12 golden balls, Ah Fei is super heated up.
And in heat, they find an ice cave, and Ah Fei takes off his shirt, Ah Ju is cold...one thing leades to another!! ...they fall in love. what'd you think it's a family show
He now has all the kung fu power of The King in one dose, reunited with the others Chin Man Lee's wife gives them a super grenade and they blow up Ku Yim Yeung for good!??!?! They watch him explode.
.....Still got 6 more episodes to go!!!
Off to save his father, Ah Fei is outraged at how Luk Yau has treated him, but he put a time bomb on him and Ah Fei's father goes "Don't follow me! I got a knife!" but Hung finds him in the woods - still not dead and saves him.
So they gather all the elders and spill all the TRUTHS about Luk Yau, everyone is there to lay it all out, from fathers to ex-girlfriends. No where to go, Luk Yau escapes but not before stabbing Duen Hoi before Duen Fei uppercuts him down the hill. Both are dead...or so they think.
His father passed on, it was time for Duen Fei to step it up and "Sang Sing" ...Ku Yeung assumes temporary leadership of the Clan
But of course Yuk Lau is not dead and he is picked up the Mongols - who are stereotypically portrayed as morons
and since Yuk Lau was so badly injured - his kung fu prowess weakened, they take him in as a slave.
OF COURSE, by coincidence Suet Ang is trying to escape the kung fu lifestyle and peacefully live among the Mongols but Yuk Lau lusts after her still..
and keeps bringing up their past romances despite the fact Yuk Lau is a psycho murderer hellbent on ruling the universe...he promises he has changed his ways, that being a slave for the Mongols has humbled him.
...but seeing Ah Hung aka Mysterious Medicine Woman aka Ex "GF" comes back to try and kill him, after learning the Woman Kung Fu Style from a revived Ku Yim Yeung (OF COURSE he's not dead yet) he gets power hungry and takes her Woman Kung Fu manual and kills her in a rage. He learns it and regains his power and leaves bodies cold in the Mongol Camp....as he goes to get revenge on his brother.
Meanwhile, Ah Fei is learning all the kung fu moves possible, battling all 12 Masters. Seeing Ah Hung in the woods, they feared the worst....Ku Yim Yeung is still alive and it's time for Ku Fung to battle his brother once and for all.
They travel to the hottest part of the country to catch Ku Yim Yeung while he's down, but little do they know he's almost fully recovered. The Brothers battle hardcore and both get injured badly until Ku Yim Yeung tricks Ku Fung he's on the ledge and tosses his brother in the fire rocks, badly injuring him and never to recover, See Bak Ku Fung dies.
(MAN! Ng Man Tat really pulls off the ultimate death scene)
Determined more than ever, Ah Fei assumes leadership of Kung Chong Pai.
Through a hardcore meeting with Yuk Lau, Ah Fei realizes his powers are still not up to par and is exiled. So they figure to learn the most ancient of Kung Fu to deal with Woman Kung Fu, The Death Touch (the same kung fu Yuk Lau tricked taught Ah Fei earlier that makes him tie temporarily). After much argument with his wife they find a secret passage complete with map! which teaches a method that doesn't make you die temporarily. So Ah Fei and Man Yee travel to find the 150 Year old Kung Fu Master who wrote the passage.
They run into a hotel owner's daughter Ah Fun, who when knocked on the head as simply as Ah Fei used to, dies temporarily. Enraged, they figure she must know and keep trying to get the info out of her. Ah Fei and Man Yee even think up of this plot where they pretend Ah Fei is seducing her and Man Yee comes to stop him, so she'd squeal the truth. "Surely you can't believe him! His acting is so bad!"
Finally they get it out of her and find the ancient kung fu master who agrees to teach Ah Fei.
Meanwhile, Yuk Lau has becoming even more of a tranny, yet keeps getting haunted by the ghost of Ah Hung...who is really Suet Yee
and he rapes her, and she ends up bearing his son.
His lackeys find out where Ah Fei is hiding and Yuk Lau goes to battle and the 150 Year Old Kung Fu Master ends up battling and scaring him off, but the battle takes a toll on him and he dies, leaving Ah Fei this Blue and Red Super Suit saying he is The Chosen One!
Suet An tries to runaway with her son but not before she switched babies with another and throws a fake baby into the river, enraged Yuk Lau kills her. Left with nothing left to do but to face his brother once and for all, Ah Fei battles his brother - even tho he hasn't fully absorbed the Super Kung Fu he learned.
Here's where it turns into classic Stephen Chow comedy. Donning his Blue and Red uniform, he kisses his wife, and she reaches in to hug him again and he stops her and fixes his hair and slow mo rushes off.
The BROTHERS battle to the death!! Hilarious picking his nose while Yuk Lau shows off his Women Kung Fu style. Stephen Chow vs Francis NG!
Ah Ju comes to help out and they manage to kill Yuk Lau once and for all. Thanks Medicine Woman for bringing the Elixir at the last moment!! "But that wasn't the Super Elixir, just some random shit" AI YAH!! and Ah Fei collapses all bones broken.
Fully in charge of the Kung Chong Pai, he renames the Clan in honor of his father and See Bak and his late mother, and that not only do they do kung fu, but they are cunning businessmen too!! They find Yuk Lau and Suet An's son and they take him as their own...."Why this reminds me of me..." Flash forward to future and you have Stephen Chow and Francis Ng in their original outfits playing a prank on their now older Ah Fei "WHY YOU KIDS!!!"
HILARIOUS.
Just a classic series, though some characters annoying (Man Lee's wife esp. and later Ah Ju's whining) and some of the plot were WTF...but overall, it really showcased Stephen Chow as the comic genius he is today, along with a lot of moments to pull of some acting chops - his parents and See Bak died, yet he still was lazy in kung fu training...damn reminds me of someone. So much trademark material that you would see in the future, catchphrases galore not only the Drink Tea, Eat Bun, but like "What are you looking at? You are looking at me first." and so much chemistry with almost all the characters, who would go on to fruitful careers in their own right like Benz Hui and esp. the flashes of Francis Ng's evil twisted character, he was a supporting 2nd and 3rd stringer at this point but he really stole the show in many scenes. The times with Stephen Chow and ESP. the last episode showed he can parody himself in the same series!! NG Man Tat, as I mentioned above, plays both characters of Ku Fung and Ku Yim Yeung and really is convincingly evil and heroic at the same time. Hardly you see his Slobbering Sidekick / Dumb Dad routine in future Stephen Chow movies - so it was pretty dope to see him act so serious. Great action too and Yammie is so hot <333
Many would come to copy this series,
The Blue Print to mixing Wuxa with comedy becomes a genre in itself. Good learning for any Stephen Chow Fan. Even after the success of The Final Combat brought Stephen Chow back for some spoofs / rehashing:
The Thief Of Time (群星会) major anniversary show featuring a lot of TVB stars who went on to movies:
http://www.megavideo.com/v/EFG1P6HG7244be2971389a0d1b8572005cb943f6
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