MOVIE · 1988
Painted Faces
Drama112 min
Sammo Hung is Master Yu Jim-yuen, the teacher at a Peking Opera school in Hong Kong, in a drama about the academy that shaped Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao as young men. The story stays with Master Yu and his students, following life inside the school as opera training and martial-arts practice define their days. Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao appear in the ensemble of a film drawn from the formative years of the China Drama Academy.
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