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Warriors Two (赞先生与找钱华)

Warriors Two (赞先生与找钱华, literally "Mr. Tsang and Cashier Hua") is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts comedy film directed by, choreographed by, and starring Sammo Hung, produced by Golden Harvest and set in Foshan, Guangdong. It tells the story of the real-life Wing Chun master Leung Jan and his disciple Chan Wah, nicknamed "Money Changer Wah", who historically was the teacher of Ip Man, the figure who later brought Wing Chun to Hong Kong.¹

Key fact	Detail
Original title	赞先生与找钱华 (Zan xian sheng yu zhao qian Hua), "Mr. Tsang and Cashier Hua"²
Release	December 28, 1978, Hong Kong; Golden Harvest Company; Cantonese³
Director and choreographer	Sammo Hung, who also plays the senior disciple Fei Chun¹
Cast	Leung Ka-yan (Leung Jan), Casanova Wong (Chan Wah), Sammo Hung, Fung Hak-on, Lau Kar-wing¹
Runtime	96 minutes per the Hong Kong Film Archive and IMDb; 95 minutes per JustWatch and Arrow Video; 90 to 91 minutes on Google Play¹^•²^•⁴
Reception	IMDb 7.2/10 from about 1,800 votes; Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer 89% on Google Play²^•⁴
Follow-up	The Prodigal Son (1981), a prequel about the master's earlier years⁵

Spoilers

Plot

The story is set in Foshan, Guangdong. Chan Wah (Casanova Wong), a cashier at a money exchange or bank and therefore nicknamed "Money Changer Wah", accidentally discovers that his boss Mok (Fung Hak-on), in fact a retired bandit, is plotting with a gang of killers to murder the town mayor and seize power. When Mok learns that Wah knows of the plan, he sends his men after him. Wah narrowly survives the attack and takes refuge with his friend Fei Chun (Sammo Hung), who brings him to Mr. Tsang, Leung Jan (Leung Ka-yan), a local doctor and the fourth-generation master of the Wing Chun school, held in admiration by the people of his hometown.¹^•⁴

Wah's mother and the town chief are killed, and Leung Jan, initially reluctant because he believes martial arts should not be learned primarily for revenge, agrees to take Wah as a student. The film devotes extended sequences to Wing Chun training. Mok then sets a trap and kills Jan, and his disciples, Wah and Fei Chun, engage in a series of vicious fights to avenge their master.¹^•⁶

Historical figures and Wing Chun

Although the plot is fiction, both Leung Jan and Chan Wah were real historical figures, respectively the fourth and fifth generation masters of Wing Chun, which is why the original Chinese title translates literally as "Mr. Tsang and Cashier Hua"; the English title was chosen for Western markets where these names were not familiar.⁵ The Hong Kong Film Archive notes the lineage link: historically, Money Changer Wah was teacher to Ip Man, whose story was later fictionalized in a series of hit films.¹

The film presents the origins of Wing Chun and demonstrates specific techniques in detail, including 拈手 (sticking hands), 寸劲 (inch power), 疾劲, and the 六点半 pole method.⁷ According to the Film Archive's oral history of 1970s Hong Kong cinema, most kung fu films of the era featured the Hung Fist, and Sammo Hung had specifically studied Wing Chun to make the film, which was a box-office hit.⁸ One review describes it as the first film to focus on the Wing Chun style, which had previously been deemed not spectacular enough to warrant a film of its own.⁵

Style and reception

Hung combines comedy with martial arts throughout. The comic scenes, largely involving Fei Chun and Mok's myopic sidekick Chiu (Dean Shek), are kept mostly separate from the serious revenge plot until the finale, where the two strands combine, with Fei Chun acting as a human shield while Wah delivers his attacks.¹^•⁵ Memorable set pieces include Leung Jan fighting off a gang with his foot caught in a bear trap, Mok's literalized praying mantis technique, and a leaping superkick from Casanova Wong, a Tae Kwon Do champion.⁵

The film is regarded as one of the defining Wing Chun films of the period, predating both the Ip Man series and Hung's own The Prodigal Son, and a Blu-ray release describes it as a benchmark that helped reshape Hong Kong action cinema at the end of the 1970s.⁹ The Hong Kong Film Archive screened a restored DCP version on October 27, 2024, as part of the 4th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival.¹⁰

Home video

After a 2005 Fox DVD in the United States, the film reached Blu-ray in a 2022 United Kingdom release from Eureka paired with The Prodigal Son, followed by an Arrow Video release in the United States on June 6, 2023.¹¹^•¹² Both editions use 2K restorations from original Fortune Star elements of two cuts: the original Hong Kong theatrical cut and a shorter export cut, with lossless Cantonese and Mandarin mono audio for the Hong Kong cut and lossless English mono for the export cut.¹³ The UK cinema version had earlier been cut to remove shots of groin blows during fight scenes; video and DVD releases are uncut.³

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Individual films by title and year › Action and adventure films (individual works) › Martial arts films › Released 1943 to 1985

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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