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#9,172 All-time worldwide
#139 1994 releases

Movie profile

The Kung Fu Scholar

1994 · 94 min · In Gear Film Production Co. Ltd..

Comedy Action
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $5.0M
Budget $5.0M
Gross minus budget —
ROI 1.00x

Domestic gross

$2.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$3.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$560,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Kung Fu Scholar ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #9,172 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1994 releases #139 Release-year chart position of 238 titles Ranked against movies released in 1994. Studio / company #1 In Gear Film Production Co. Ltd.. of 3 titles Position inside the mapped In Gear Film Production Co. Ltd.. movie set. Primary genre #3,567 Comedy of 4,840 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did The Kung Fu Scholar (1994) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Kung Fu Scholar (1994) earned a reported $5.0M worldwide against a reported $5.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $0. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.00x. In this database it currently ranks #9,172 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #139 among 1994 releases.

Worldwide gross
$5,000,000
Budget
$5,000,000
Gross minus budget
$0
ROI
1.00x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Kung Fu Scholar is a comedy action starring Dicky Cheung. He wants to learn kung-fu, but his mother wants him to go to school. After losing a game with his mother, he's forced to attend school. Liu Sin-Hoi (Aaron Kwok) also attends the same school. The school's headmaster (Mau Tat) has a niece Ching Ching (Chow Wai Man) who's also been dropped off at the school by her parents. School has many regulations: One being you cannot court a woman. But guess what, it's love at first sight for Man Chui (Dicky Cheung) when he sees Ching Ching. There's a band of henchmen after prince eight, and Man Chui and Sin-Hoi gets entangled in their affairs.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jan 13, 1994
Production
In-Gear Film Production Co. Ltd., Golden Harvest Productions
Countries
HK

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Studio / production companyIn Gear Film Production Co. Ltd.. Release year chart1994 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartAction

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1994, The Kung Fu Scholar is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Action title from In-Gear Film Production Co. Ltd. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $5.0M, reported production budget is $5.0M, ROI is 1.00x. For comparison, it currently sits #9,172 all-time in the current chart set and #139 among 1994 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.