Wong Fei Hung ji saam: Si wong jaang ba (1993)

Director:

Hark Tsui

Writers:

Tin-suen Chan (writer)
Cheung Tan (writer)

Release Date:

14 January 1993 (South Korea)

Genre:

Action | History

Tagline:

A Hero Beyond All Others.

Plot:

Master Wong and his disciples enroll in the 'Dancing Lion Competition' to stop an assassination plot and to battle an arrogant, deceitful opponent.

Plot Keywords:

Martial Arts | Assassination Plot | Trap | Sequel | Silent Movie

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Jet Li	...	Wong Fei-hung
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Cunzhuang Ge
Rosamund Kwan	...	Aunt Yee (segment "Penny")
Shun Lau	...	Wong Kei-ying
Siu Chung Mok	...	Leung Fun
John Wakefield	...	Tumanovsky
Xin Xin Xiong	...	Club Foot / Thunder Foot

Also Known As:

Once Upon a Time in China III (Hong Kong: English title) (UK) (USA)
Huang Fei Hong zhi san: Shi wang zheng ba (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Once Upon a Time in China 3 (Australia)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence.

Runtime:

109 min | 112 min (uncut version)

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-15 | Australia:PG | New Zealand:M | UK:PG | Australia:M (TV rating) | South Korea:15 | Netherlands:12 (DVD/VHS release) (2002) | Philippines:G | Hong Kong:II | France:U | USA:R | Singapore:PG

Company:

Golden Harvest Company

Trivia:

First film of "Once Upon a Time in China" series presented in Dolby Stereo sound.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: When Wong Fei-hung kicks his lion costume to the air, the string holding it is clearly visible.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Transporter (2002)

Jet Li's cool, and so's Club Foot. But this movie ain't. Too much.

Jet Li's "acting" series whips around for a third time in this somewhat disappointing movie. I say "disappointing" because all his previous movies were more about the fighting and less about character development and goofy love triangles. Not that character development is a bad thing, I just feel that it doesn't have much place in a kung-fu film, and ESPECIALLY a Tsui Hark film. While break-dancer Club Foot does some incredible kicks, his character really drops low in the last half hour of the movie, and you wonder why the directors make him do what he does. Jet Li does some incredible fighting as the famous Wong Fei-Hung, but I was truly hoping that Tianbao from "Tai Ji Zhang San Feng" would come in and start a GOOD fight amidst all this lion-dancing crap. C'mon, I wanna see poles, swords, three-part staffs, and nunchaku, not these cumbersome lion masks!