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O Mestre da Fumaça
The Smoke Master
Brazil 2022
produced by Andre Sigwalt, Augusto Soares, Fabio Dellore (executive)
directed by Andre Sigwalt, Augusto Soares
starring Daniel Rocha, Tony Lee, Thiago Stechinni, Tristan Aronovich, Luana Frez, Ravel Andrade, Yasmin Thin Qi, Natallia Rodrigues, Angela Dippe, Rodrigo Arijon, Jimmy Wong, Cléber Colombo, Tamirys O'Hanna, Michelle Rodrigues, Paula Zago, Caroline Hirose, Eiryo Okura, Pedro Hórak, Jean-Paul Kinfoussia, David Wendefilm, Davi Lino, Caio Mutai, Gustavo Brandão, Avatar Aang Willians, Ralph Tung, Man Hong, Ye Xin, Danilo Cassola, Claudio Geasy, Gutemberg Lins, Felipe Moura, Guilherme Nascimento, Avatar Real
written by Andre Sigwalt, Augusto Soares, music by André Abujamra, Eron Guarnieri, fight coordinator: Renan Medeiros, action coordinator: Kapel Furman
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Master Abel (Cléber Colombo) and his students have been praticing
martial arts in a certain public park for years - until they're attacked
by a triad gang led by Caine (Tristan Aronovich). Gabriel (Daniel Rocha),
one of Abel's top student, can ward off the attack, but the next day,
another of the master's students who has shown up early for training, Hugo
(Eiryo Okura), is beaten up badly in the park. Daniel (Thiago Stechinni),
the Abel's best student and incidently Gabriel's brother, pays a visit to
Caine's headquarters and challenges Caine himself to a fight - and he sure
holds his own, but is shot in the back by one of Caine's men. Upon this
Caine personally sees to it that he gets to the hospital the quickest and
is given the best treatment. Gabriel and Daniel only now know what's going
on, their grandfather Jonas was a disciple of the Smoke Master, but was
killed by Mrs. Liu (Yasmin Thin Qi) back in the day who wanted to
eliminate smoke style kung fu, and she has since put a three generation
course on Gabriel and Daniel's family saying that all the family sons are
to be bested and killed in a fair fight for the next three generations -
and Mrs. Liu (played in the here and now by Tony Lee) is the big bosslady
of the triads. Now with Daniel out of the way, it's up to Gabriel to find
the Smoke Master (Tony Lee again) and learn his martial arts style. And
after quite a search, Gabriel has to realize that the Smoke Master has
based his whole style upon the cultivation and consumption of marihuana -
and to learn the style, straight-as-an-arrow Gabriel has to become a
stoner first ...
Now the premise of this movie's pretty ingenious, to take the
almost generic story of so many period martial arts movies from Hong Kong
and Taiwan about a man who has to learn a certain martial arts skill to
avenge the death of a family member, but transplant it into modern day
Brazil and add strong elements of stoner comedy to the mix. Now this could
have become a disaster, but the writers/directors obviously have a deep
love and understanding for the martial arts genre as such, see to it that
the action is exciting and well-flowing, and apply stoner humour to the
melodramatic story at all the right twists and turns to make this one fun
ride indeed.
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