Zui Quan in popular culture

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Zui Quan received mainstream media attention outside of China after the premier of Drunken Master in 1978. Drunken Fist's legendary style and execution is featured in many books, movies, comics and television shows.

Film

* The style is portrayed in the 1978 film "Drunken Master", in which Jackie Chan plays a juvenile delinquent sent by his father to learn Zui Quan from his uncle, a master in the art. This is followed up by the 1994 film "Drunken Master II" or "The Legend of Drunken Master", in which Jackie Chan returns as Wong Fei Hung, now skilled in Zui Quan (after the first film).
* The style is portrayed in the film, "Heroes of the East".
* In "Last Hero in China", Jet Li's character Wong Fei-Hung broke his toes when attempting to perform a No Shadow Kick on an enemy. As a last resort, he started drinking from nearby wine-jugs, and thus began to use Zui Quan, referring to it as "The Drunken Disciples of God".
* In "The Forbidden Kingdom", Jackie Chan's character Lu Yan specializes in Zui Quan. In the middle of the fight between Lu Yan and "The silent Monk" "Jet Li" Li's character switches to "Tanglang Quan" or Praying Mantis Kung Fu and ends up beating Chan's Zui Quan, upon which Chan's character switches to Tiger style.
* The character of So Chanin the Donnie Yen movies "Heroes Among Heroes" uses the style (as taught to him by his foster father) to defeat the main villain.
* Neo, in The Matrix, is taught Drunken Boxing during training on the Nebuchadnezzar via direct implantation into his brain.

Television

* In the anime Dragon Ball, Jackie Chun (Master Roshi) uses the drunken boxing technique in the final match of the World Tournament against Goku. Called the Mad Cow style in the English dub, due to censorship of alcoholic references
* Zui Quan was featured on an episode of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", in which martial arts expert Jet Li explained this style.
* In the television special "Fight Science", Alex Huynh displayed drunken boxing in a segment on Chinese martial arts.
* In the MTV2 television series "The Final Fu" one of the competitors, Jonathan Phan, used Drunken Boxing to fight against one of his opponents.
* In the anime "Naruto", Rock Lee, an expert in taijutsu, utilizes Drunken Fist (Loopy Fist in the English dub, due to censorship of alcoholic references) when he gets accidentally drunk on sake (Elixir in the English dub), which he mistakes for medicine. Rock Lee fights Kimimaro during the Sasuke retrieval saga, though his alcoholic lapses are relatively brief, and he has no memory of his actions once he has returned to his normal self.
* In the anime "Yu Yu Hakusho", Chu uses drunken fighting as his main style of fighting. He becomes proportionally stronger with every drink he has.

Books

* In the manga series Naruto, the character Rock Lee is a natural-born user of the Drunken Fist. Rock Lee mistakes a bottle of sake for his medicine, and Might Guy tells the Hokage (village leader) that he witnessed Rock Lee using Zui Quan at a level he had never seen before. [cite book |last=Kishimoto|first=Masashi|title=Naruto, Volume 25|year=2007 |publisher=Viz Media |chapter=Chapter 210-211 |isbn=1-4215-1860-0]
* The folktale "Swordplay Under the Moon", created by noted Yangzhou storyteller Wang Shaotang (1889-1968), tells of how the "Water Margin" bandit Wu Song comes to learn swordplay from Zhou Tong, the military arts teacher of Song Dynasty General Yue Fei. After Wu is sent to Kaifeng to deliver a load of gold for government officials, he retires to a local inn and, that evening, begins to practice his drunken boxing in the rear courtyard. However, his practice is interrupted when the screams of another martial artists breaks his concentration. He stands on a stool and peers over a tall wall to see Zhou performing drunken swordplay for a group of aristocrats. Zhou invites Wu over the wall and eventually takes him as his student. [Børdahl, Vibeke. "The Oral Traditions of Yangzhou Storytelling". Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1996 (ISBN 0-7007-0436-1), pp. 365-376]

Videogames

* The character Bo' Rai Cho from "Mortal Kombat" uses Drunken Fist as his primary fighting style. (secondary in Deception). The name Bo' Rai Cho comes from the Spanish word "borracho", meaning "drunk". Bo' Rai Cho has a love for alcoholic beverages (most notably rice wine), and is credited as being the creator of the Mortal Kombat universe's version of the style.
* Brad Wong of "Dead or Alive 3" and "Dead or Alive 4" is a practitioner of Zui Quan; as is Shun Di of "Virtua Fighter" series, and Chin Gentsai, of the "King of Fighters" series.
* Lei Wulong of "Tekken" features Zui Quan techniques as part of his move set.
* In the Wu-Tang Clan game "", the rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard used the Drunken Boxing technique.
* A character from the videogame "Ōkami" seems to practice Zui Quan, as seen in the E3 2005 trailer.
* In the "Warcraft" Universe Pandaren are known to use a combination of the drunken boxing technique and the Shaolin fighting style.
* In the video game , rapper Flava Flav uses Drunken Boxing as his fighting style.
* In the BioWare title "Jade Empire", drunken boxing is one of the fighting styles available later in the game. But the code will be available in the first seconds of the intro to unlock it before.
* In the Hudson Soft 1989 title "China Warrior", the final boss of the final level uses the Drunken Boxing fighting style. Also notable is that when the boss takes a swig from his flask he regains a small portion of his health.
* In , there is a club manager who appears to use drunken boxing.
* In "Double Dragon" for Neo Geo, Cheng Fu fought using Drunken Boxing and is probably the first 2D characters in fighting games to use it.
* In the arcade game "Martial Masters" there was a fighter known as the Drunken Master who used Zui Quan.
* In the MMORPG game [http://9dragons.acclaim.com 9Dragons] , one of the four leagues, the League of Beggars, uses slightly modified techniques of the Drunken Fist as its secondary weapon.
* The online fighting game "Rumble Fighter" has a fighting style named 'Drunken Boxing' which mimics Zui Quan. Its Korean counterpart, "Gem Fighter", has another version called 'Drunken Master' which is more complex and slightly more "drunken".

External links

* IMDB entry for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080179/ 'Jui kuen'] , aka. 'Drunken Master'
* IMDB entry for [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111512/ 'Jui kuen II'] , aka. 'Drunken Master II' or 'The Legend of the Drunken Master'