Breathing Fire

Breathing Fire
Film poster
Directed byBrandon De-Wilde (co-directed)
Lou Kennedy
Written byRaymond Mahoney
Wayne John
Story byDelon Tanners
Produced byRaymond Mahoney
StarringKe Huy Quan
Eddie Saavedra
Ed Neil
Jerry Trimble
Bolo Yeung
Wendell C. Whitaker
CinematographyHenry Chinon
Edited byRick Mitchell
William Young
Music byPaul Hertzog
Production
company
Golden Pacific Films & Arts
Distributed byScanbox Entertainment
Release dates
  • January 16, 1991 (1991-01-16) (Sweden)
  • July 15, 1992 (1992-07-15) (United States)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Breathing Fire is a 1991 American martial arts film directed by Lou Kennedy in his directorial debut, and co-directed by Brandon De-Wilde. The film stars Ke Huy Quan, with a supporting cast of Eddie Saavedra, Ed Neil and Jerry Trimble. The film was released on direct-to-VHS in the United States on July 15, 1992.[1]

It is a remake of the 1977 Hong Kong film The Flash Legs that starred Tao-liang Tan, who executive produced and wrote this film under the pseudonym of Delon Tanners. This was Eddie Saavedra's first and only American film. After the film, Saavedra has retired from acting.

  1. ^ Black Belt - May 1993 Vol. 31, No. 5 The ninth- and 10th-best fight films are, respectively, Johnathan Ke Quan's Breathing Fire and Tang Tak Wing's Trained to Fight. Breathing Fire includes some original tournament fight sequences between Quan and Eddie Saavedra, which ...