Kung Fu Rookie
Asian Cinema
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Action, Comedy
Country bumpkin Timuchin comes to the city to enroll in the police academy. There he is pranked by a lovely young woman who eventually cottons to his courtship. When they run afoul of local gangsters his Dudley Do-Right persona and studied obsession with martial arts send him on a bare-fisted mission to thwart the baddies and rescue his damsel in distress. This inspired homage to Jackie Chan by way of urban Kazakhstan is a boisterous rollercoaster ride of old school action movie thrills, spills and other hilarious antics.
DIRECTED BY AMAN ERGAZIYEV
KAZAKHSTAN | 2024 | RUSSIAN, KAZAKH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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