Come Drink with Me

Come Drink with Me
Hong Kong theatrical poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese大醉俠
Simplified Chinese大醉侠
Literal meaningGreat Drunken Hero
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDà Zuì Xiá
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingDaai6 Zeoi3 Haap6
Directed byKing Hu
Written byKing Hu
Ting Shan-hsi
Produced byRun Run Shaw
StarringCheng Pei-pei
Yueh Hua
Chan Hung-lit
CinematographyTadashi Nishimoto
Edited byChiang Hsing-lung
Music byChow Lan-ping
Production
company
Distributed byShaw Brothers Studio
Release date
  • 7 April 1966 (1966-04-07)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageMandarin
Box office12,892 tickets (France)[1]

Come Drink with Me (Chinese: 大醉俠; pinyin: Dà Zuì Xiá; lit. 'Great Drunken Hero') is a 1966 Hong Kong wuxia film produced by Shaw Brothers Studio and directed by King Hu. Set during the Ming Dynasty, it stars Cheng Pei-pei, Yueh Hua and Chan Hung-lit in the leading roles, and features action choreography by Han Ying-chieh.

Considered one of the greatest wuxia films of all time, Come Drink with Me was both a critical and commercial success, and launched the career of Cheng Pei-pei as a star of the wuxia genre.[2] It was selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 39th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.[3]

  1. ^ Soyer, Renaud (4 February 2014). "Jackie Chan Box Office". Box Office Story. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  2. ^ "How did Cheng Pei-pei, martial arts actress of Crouching Tiger fame, first see stardom?". South China Morning Post. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  3. ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences