At the start of the decade, Jackie Chan officially joined Golden Harvest , a move that granted him the creative freedom to direct and choreograph his own visions. His 1980 directorial debut for the studio, The Young Master , broke Hong Kong box office records and established his preference for long, complex fight sequences—one fan-juggling scene famously required 329 takes.
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