
Kung Fu Hustle
The humorous martial art epic is staged in Shanghai, China in the 1940s where a bumbling thief named Sing desires to be the toughest member of the dreaded gangster hit squad.

















9 June 1961, Hong Kong



1958, Beijing, China


16 August 1976, Hong Kong

27 December 1978, Shandong, China


1963, Chongqing, Sichuan, China


1948, Hong Kong


17 December 1965, Los Angeles County, California, USA




22 June 1962, Hong Kong

2 September 1950, Hong Kong, China



11 February 1983, Shanghai, China



1 August 1975, Hong Kong

1 January 1957

12 September 1948, Shaxi, Zhonghsan, Guangdong Province, China

1943, Hong Kong




December 27, 2007
Keeps the gags flying almost as rapidly as the fists.
May 20, 2005
Kung Fu Hustle snaps and crackles like nuclear popcorn on a scorching griddle.
April 29, 2009
A smart and very funny action comedy that will really knock your socks off.
May 12, 2006
Chow's movie may seem nutty on the surface, but its slyness, its dreamy unfolding of so many moods and genres, becomes intoxicating.
April 16, 2009
The ever-shifting genre of martial arts films takes on yet another variation with writer/director/actor Stephen Chow's CGI spectacle infused comic Kung Fu adventure.
November 01, 2007
So disarmingly eager to please that only a stone-faced kung fu purist could object.
April 22, 2005
But for all its stylishness, verve and moments of visual poetry, the relentlessly punishing slapstick and overall cruel tone left me cold.
August 07, 2008
Gravity takes a backseat to levity.
November 19, 2013
Chow is a genius in generating extraordinary drama from the familiar.
September 26, 2005
A film where special effects erase physics and the constraints of the human body, there's absolutely no telling what will come next.
April 22, 2005
Retrieving the martial arts movie from the gentrified middlebrow tastefulness of movies like House of Flying Daggers is only one item on Kung Fu Hustle's agenda.