{"id":2116326,"date":"2025-10-26T11:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2116326"},"modified":"2025-10-26T11:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:10:14","slug":"how-sammo-hung-came-to-direct-his-first-film-then-complete-bruce-lees-game-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-sammo-hung-came-to-direct-his-first-film-then-complete-bruce-lees-game-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sammo Hung came to direct his first film \u2013 then complete Bruce Lee\u2019s Game of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sammo Hung Kam-bo began his career as a child star before moving into stunt work and martial arts choreography, often taking supporting roles in the films he worked on.<\/p>\n

But his ambition since the age of 14 was always to direct. He learned the craft by closely observing the filmmaking process on set.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it was martial arts or operating a camera dolly, I was always up for the challenge,\u201d Hung<\/span><\/a> told the Hong Kong Film Archive.<\/div>\n

\u201cWhenever the foreman asked me to do something, I showed myself to be multitalented \u2026 Slowly, I became the assistant martial arts choreographer, the martial arts choreographer and finally the director.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hung\u2019s first film as director was 1977\u2019s The Iron-Fisted Monk<\/em>, a Qing dynasty revenge drama blending kung fu with cheeky comedy.<\/p>\n

However, unlike the comedic fights in Jackie Chan<\/span><\/a>\u2019s 1978 hit Drunken Master<\/em><\/span><\/a>, the action here is brutal and creates a sometimes jarring tonal contrast with the humour.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scmp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sammo Hung Kam-bo began his career as a child star before moving into stunt work and martial arts choreography, often taking supporting roles in the films he worked on. But his ambition since the age of 14 was always to direct. He learned the craft by closely observing the filmmaking process on set. \u201cWhether it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2116327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[401282,369073,401281,392113,401278,392111,401280,335655,393808,401279,302531,401277],"class_list":["post-2116326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-angela-mao-ying","tag-bruce-lee","tag-cantonese","tag-enter-the-dragon","tag-enter-the-fat-dragon","tag-golden-harvest","tag-huang-feng","tag-jackie-chan","tag-kung-fu","tag-raymond-chow","tag-sammo-hung","tag-the-iron-fisted-monk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/How-Sammo-Hung-came-to-direct-his-first-film-\u2013.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116328,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116326\/revisions\/2116328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2116327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}