Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
Original title: Se ying diu sau
1978 · 1 h 30 min
Yuen Woo-pingWhere to watch in the United States: Stream: ARROW · Free: YouTube Free. Streaming data from JustWatch via TMDB; availability changes.
Cast
Jackie Chan 
Siu-Tin Yuen 
Jeong-lee Hwang 
Dean Shek Roy Horan 
Fung Hak-On
Credits
Written by: Chi Yuan Hsi
Plot
A downtrodden orphan befriends an old man who is the last master of snake fist kung fu.
Sinekatalog’s take
Yuen Woo-ping's film is an early Jackie Chan kung fu comedy, inventive and fun, a classic of the genre.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.3 / 10 (14,375 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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