The Magnificent Kick () (also known as Secret Kick of Death in the U.K) is a 1980 Hong Kong martial arts biography film. The film is a flashback story of the life of Wong Fei Hung, the Chinese martial arts master and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity, and is named after his trademark move- a kick too fast to be countered, known as 'the shadowless kick'. The director is Daniel Lau Tan-Ching, and the producer is Ng Why. The film stars Kwan Tak-hing, Jason Pai-piao, Cecilla Wong Hang-sau and Han Ying-chieh. The production company is Friendship Films (H.K.) Co, Hsu Tang is the production manager, the screenplay is by Sze-To On, and the script supervisor is Wong Mei Ling. The martial art used in the film by Kwan Tak-hing is Hung Ga / Hung Gar.
Kwan Tak-hing as Wong Fei Hung
Kwan Tak-hing acted the role of the famous chinese martial artist and physician, Wong Fei Hung (1847-1924), in 77 films, between 1949 and 1981. That is a world record for the portrayal of one character by the same actor in feature films. The first of his portrayals was in the 1949 film The Story of Huang Fei-hung Part 1, and in 1956 he starred in 25 Fei- hung films. The production of the Fei-hung films ended in 1970, but was revived in 1974 with The Skyhawk, followed by a television series, and then the films Magnificent Butcher in 1979, Magnificent Kick in 1980 and Dreadnaught in 1981. By the time he starred in The Magnificent Kick, Kwan Tak-hing was 75 years of age and a stunt man had to take his place for the most physical scenes.