The Eagle Shooting Heroes (1993)

A parody of Louis Cha's novel The Eagle Shooting Heroes (thats the literal translation). Story begins with the Queen of Golden Wheel Kingdom had an affair with her cousin West Poison, and ... See full summary »

Director:

Jeffrey Lau (as Jeff Lau)

Writers:

Louis Cha (novel), Jeffrey Lau (screenplay)

Stars:

Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung

Cast

Cast overview:
Leslie Cheung	...	HuangYao-shih
Brigitte Lin	...	Third Princess
Maggie Cheung	...	Imperial Master
Tony Chiu-Wai Leung	...	Ou-yang Feng (as Tony Chiu Wai Leung)
Tony Ka Fai Leung	...	Tuan Wang-yeh
Jacky Cheung	...	Hung Chi
Carina Lau	...	Chou Po-tung
Joey Wang	...	Wang's Sweetheart
Veronica Yip	...	Ou-yang Feng's Cousin
Kenny Bee	...	Wang Chung-yang, the Taoist

Storyline

A parody of Louis Cha's novel The Eagle Shooting Heroes (thats the literal translation). Story begins with the Queen of Golden Wheel Kingdom had an affair with her cousin West Poison, and they planned to take over the Kingdom. The 3rd Princess discovered their treason, but she was defeated by West Poison. She flees and sought her master's help. He told her of a powerful secret martial arts manual hidden in the mountains and told her by retrieving the manual and learning it she would be able to defeat West Poison. But things get complicated along the way when West Poison beat her to it and stole the secret manual away. She soon gathers an alliance to challenge West Poison's exponentially increased new power.

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Plot Keywords:

based on novel | 

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Fantasy

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Details

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Release Date:

5 February 1993 (Hong Kong)

Also Known As:

Eagle Shooting Heroes

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jet Tone Production, Scholar Films Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The crew finished shooting the movie within only 27 days as a side project of Kar Wai Wong's masterpiece, Ashes of Time. During the production of Ashes of Time, the crew was running out of time and money. Due to the tremendous pressure from the investors, the crew including all the stars agreed to make this short comedy movie for the Chinese new year.

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Connections

Followed by Ashes of Time (1994)

User Reviews

This is a 10 at its time

There is a wind that blows and all the good things grow with it. After the wind is gone, the good things turn back and never come any good things alike again.

So this film is from a wind that was blowing during that span of years in Hong Kong, never again you would be able to see those director, actors, screen writers, dress designers, stunt man so passionate and joyfully getting involved for fun, for imagination, for successful results.

The same name, even same director had shot anther one with the same Chinese name in 2011. It's rated very low in IMDb and it's rated like 3 in a Chinese review site. You can see how people hated it because the lack of dedication of the actors, the ridiculous taking-audience-as-a-fool jokes and random involvements of all the celebrities from musical industries into the acting business and they are naively thinking themselves that they are doing a good job. It's a shame, as simple as it is.

But this film has stars in it, real stars. Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung, Carina Lau Brigitte Lin, Jacky Cheung...I just can't name them all here. The director is the same director who 2 years later directed the 2-squeal films (A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box, A Chinese Odyssey Part Two - Cinderella) which turns to absolute classic now and ever and make Stephen Chow an iconic star as well.

The Mandarin voice-over done by Taiwan people is superb so if you are learning mandarin, it's top Mandarin. Originally it's Cantonese.

If you like Gongfu movie, this one is a blast. It's fine nice delicate cut between a flying Gong Fu super power guy and gravity still making sense here. It's a blessing in the 90s when computer is not good enough to make all the digital stuff. I personally prefer a stunt man than GC effect, it's real fake, not fake fake.

Again, the wind was there and people had no intention for fame and fortune because there is none, they made a laugh and take great joy about what they did - this film.