Hong Xi Guan: Zhi Shao Lin wu zu (1994)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Directors:

Jing Wong
Corey Yuen

Writers:

Domonic Muir (dubbed version)
Jing Wong (writer)

Release Date:

5 February 1994 (South Korea)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | History | Romance

Plot:

A young father and his infant son are beset by forces of evil and corruption. They wander China, upholding...

Plot Keywords:

Stabbed In The Eye | Shaolin Monk | Blood | Banana | Shield

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Jet Li	...	Hung Hei-Kwun
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sung Young Chen	...	Ma Kai-Sin
Chuen-Hua Chi	...	Ma Ling-Yee
Damian Lau	...	Chan Kan-Nam
Miu Tse	...	Hung Man Ting
Lung Wei Wang	...	Commander
Jing Wong	...	Cameo
Chingmy Yau	...	Red Bean
Deannie Yip	...	Red Bean's Mother

Also Known As:

Hung Hei Kwun - Ji Siu Lam ng jo (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
Hung Hei-Koon: Shaolin's Five Founders
Legend of the Future Shaolin
Legend of the Red Dragon (USA) (video title)
Legends of Shaolin
The New Legend of Shaolin (Hong Kong: English title)
Xin Shaolin Wuzu

MPAA:

Rated R for violence.

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Finland:K-15 | Singapore:NC-16 | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | South Korea:15 | Canada:14A | Germany:12 | UK:15 | USA:R

Company:

Eastern Productions

Quotes:

Red Bean's Mother: You ate my chicken ass, now I'm going to eat your ass!

Movie Connections:

Spin off from "Kung fu si fu" (1994)

The Jet and his son

An entertaining Jet Li period vehicle, which Li co-produced. Li plays a Chinese folk hero, a rebel who battled a violent, repressive Manchu government. Li teams with 10 year old martial arts prodigy, Xie Miao, who effectively portrays Li's kung-fu fighting son. The duo have some similarities to the "Lone Wolf and Cub" team in numerous, more atmospheric, very gory Japanese movies of the 1970's. Li and son are joined by a sly mother/daughter con artist team to protect 5 young boys who each have a segment of a rebel map tattooed on their back.

Fine photography and inventive action sequences, especially the opener, and one with a clever Trojan horse variant. Li's fight scenes are wondrous, as usual, but his part seems too stiffly written for a fluffy, child-oriented action film with much comic relief. Deannie Yip and sensual Chingmy Yau are energetic and funny as the kung-fu mother/daughter scammers.

The English dubbed version, made in 2000, has excellent, witty dialogue and appropriate voices. Prolific Hong Kong writer/director Wong Jing cameos in the closing scene.