Kung Pow! Enter the Fist

Kung Pow! Enter the Fist is a 2002 American martial arts comedy film that parodies Hong Kong action cinema. Written, directed by and starring Steve Oedekerk, it uses footage from the 1976 Hong Kong martial arts film Tiger & Crane Fists (also called Savage Killers), along with new footage shot by Oedekerk, to create an original, unrelated plot.

Synopsis

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist is a movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old together. As the main character, The Chosen One, Oedekerk sets off to avenge the deaths of his parents at the hands of kung-fu legend Master Pain. Along the way, he encounters some strange characters, one of which is a cow trained in the martial arts.

Cast[]

Character	Original Actor	Dub Actor
The Chosen One	Steve Oedekerk	Steve Oedekerk
The Chosen One	Jimmy Wang Yu
Master Tang	Hui Lou Chen
Master Pain/Betty	Fei Lung
Master Pain/Betty	Leo Lee (young)
Ling	Ling Ling Tse
Ling	Lin Yan
Wimp Lo	Lau Kar-wing
Whoa	Jennifer Tung
Master Doe	Chi Ma	Steve Oedekerk
Chew Fat Lip	Tad Horino	Steve Oedekerk
Father	Ming Lo	Not dubbed
Mother	Peggy Lu	Not dubbed
Peasant Woman	Tori Tran	Steve Oedekerk

Additional Voices[]

Steve Oedekerk

Notes[]

Oedekerk re-dubbed all of the original cast's voices himself, inventing a different voice for every character. The only exception is the character of "Whoa", who was voiced by her actress, Jennifer Tung. During filming of their scenes, Oedekerk and Tung spoke nonsensical lines, which were later re-dubbed with the correct lines from the script, in order to maintain the appearance of poorly-dubbed foreign language consistent with the rest of the film.
In several scenes, Steve Oedekerk would digitally replace the head of the original star of the film Jimmy Wang Yu with his own. In a couple of sequences, Oedekerk would also replace the heads of Hui Lou Chen and Lau Kar-wing.