The Young Master

Jackie Chan directs and stars in this 1980 Hong Kong action comedy, his second film as director after Fearless Hyena. He plays Lung, a young martial arts student whose brother has gone missing. When Lung sets out to find him, he is mistaken for a fugitive criminal and must clear his name by tracking down those responsible himself, with law enforcement and hired fighters pursuing him along the way.

The film comes from Golden Harvest and pairs Chan with Yuen Biao, who appears as Number Four, while Wai Pak plays Tiger, In-shik Hwang plays Master Kam and Sek Kin plays Chief Sheriff Sang Kwan. The screenplay was written by Chan with King Sang Tang and Edward Tang. Credited cast runs to 52 performers, and the film runs 107 minutes.

Released in Hong Kong in February 1980, the film sits early in Chan's directing career, between Fearless Hyena and Dragon Lord, a stretch in which he was shaping the blend of comedy and martial arts choreography that defined his work as a filmmaker and performer. It holds a rating of 7 out of 10 on IMDb from around 9,100 votes, and the same rating on TMDB from a much smaller base of 256 votes, indicating a generally positive reception from viewers on both platforms.