Painted Faces

I recognized most of the story here from having read Jackie Chan’s memoir, I Am Jackie Chan. It’s the story of Jackie and Sammo Hung’s life as Peking opera students in training. The real Sammo plays the abusive master and gets to whip a younger version of himself. The movie never really gels as a whole but there are many memorable scenes showing the grueling training. I also liked the relationship between master and Cheng Pei Pei. Near the end there is a great sequence, which totally doesn’t fit the movie, in which we see behind the scenes of a kung-fu production.