The Loot Poster

In the wake of his protege Jackie Chan’s success with ‘Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow’ and ‘Drunken Master’, director/producer Lo Wei tried to exploit the kung fu comedy genre that Jackie had pioneered. He hired comedian Eric Tsang, an unlikely former Shaw Bros stuntman, to direct three films or him. The second of these was ‘The Loot’.

Very much a companion piece to Tsang’s directorial debut, ‘The Challenger’, this film also stars David Chiang, Tsui Siu-keung, Lily Li and Philip Ko Fei. Like many of Lo Wei’s Jackie Chan films, ‘The Loot’ was shot in Taiwan. Eric Tsang had begun his career as a martial arts actor working for actor/director Lau Kar-leung at Shaw Brothers. He continued to draw on Lau Sifu’s talent pool, finding great roles for Korean super-kicker Kwan Yung-moon, who had worked on Lau’s ‘My Young Auntie’, and Huang Ha, a long-time student of Lau Kar-leung’s father, Lau Chaam.

The film has, if anything, even more innovative kung fu action that it predecessor. ‘The Loot’ has found a firm fan following, and Reel East  are proud to celebrate the film by making this gorgeous original artwork theatrical poster available: