Kung Fu Dunk

 

Profile

• Movie: Kung Fu Dunk
• Chinese: 功夫灌籃
• Director: Yen-ping Chu
• Producer:
• Writer: Yen-ping Chu
• Cinematography:
• Release Date: February 7, 2008 (Hong Kong)
• Runtime:
• Language: Cantonese, Mandarin
• Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan

Plot

The youngster, Shi-Jie (by Jay Chou) grew up at The Kung-Fu School. He practiced excellent Kung-Fu and equipped with good sense of feel. Unexpectedly, he showed his marvelous skills of slam-dunk. Therefore, he was selected by Wang-Li who had wicked ideas and made his living in the streets. On the exercise of helping him search for his family, Wang-Li invited him to play basketball at the first university. However, he would like to make use of him to make money.
After joining the basketball team, Shi-Jie found that Li-Li whom he admired for a long time is the sister of Ting-Wei (by Bo-Lin Chen) the leader of basketball team. Shi Jie was desperate to draw her attention. Therefore, he attempted to compete with Xiao-Lan (By Baron Chen), who is Li-Li's idol, which made the basketball team lapse into the unstable atmosphere. During the process, the conflicts between each other had been sorted out after the counsel of Ting-Tei. Meanwhile, he helped Shi-Jie combine the foundation of Kung-Fu into the basketball skills, which brought his skills into full play and helped team go through the critical competitions.
At this time, the major competitor faced by Shi-Jie and his team members was the team led by Lee Tien, the previous fighting brother of Ting Wei. The team was constituted by a group of horrible men who were withstood to join any basketball games in the United States. They also bribed the referees, which made the basketball team of the first university become the living targets and face the situation of crushing defeat. When the situation was in danger, Wang-Li made great efforts to persuade four grand masters with excellent martial arts to take up a challenge at the last moment.
How did Shi-Jie reverse the situation and lead the team to create a miracle? Whether he could find his family? Who would be his lover at the end?

Cast

Starring

• Jay Chou

Supporting Cast

• Bo-lin Chen
• Charlene Choi
• Chuhe Chen
• Eric Tsang
• Bo Huang
• Man Tat Ng
• Jacky Wu
• Gang Wang
• Lichun Lee
• Ni Yan
• Chen Chen
• James Z. Feng - First Univ. Teammate