Packet 9: Tossup 11

In a 1966 film, a character with this trait leads a troupe of children at a tavern in a song whose lyrics reveal that a gang of mercenaries are hiding at a Buddhist temple. A beggar with this trait kills a Shaolin master with a bamboo staff and mentors Golden Swallow, a female warrior played by Cheng Pei-pei, in that wuxia classic by King Hu. The climax (-5[2])of a sequel to a film titled for this trait involves burning coals (15[1])in a British-owned (-5[1])steel (15[1])factory. That Yuen (15[1])Woo-ping film titled for a character (-5[1])with this trait was one of (*) Akira Toriyama’s cinematic inspirations for Dragon Ball. Yuen (10[1])Siu-tien (10[1])played a character with this trait nicknamed “Beggar So” in that 1978 action film, (10[1])which parodies the folk hero Wong Fei-hung. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, the comedy that launched Jackie Chan as a leading (10[3])man (10[2])is titled for a kung fu master who learns the way of what sort of “Fist?” (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

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