Last Hero in China (1993)

Jet Li stars in this comic spectacle as a Chinese "Robin Hood" who stumbles upon a kidnapping scheme after unwittingly opening a martial arts school next to a brothel!

Directors:

Jing Wong, Woo-Ping Yuen

Writer:

Jing Wong

Stars:

Jet Li, Man Cheung, Dicky Cheung

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jet Li	...	Wong Fei-Hung (as Lin-kit Lee)
Man Cheung	...	Ti Yi-er
Dicky Cheung	...	So (as Wai-kin Cheung)
Pak-Cheung Chan	...	Mass Tar Wong 'Mr Pimp'
Ka-Yan Leung	...	Leung Foon
Alan Chung San Chui	...	Legate Officer Lui (as Chung-san Chui)
Chia-Hui Liu	...	Master Liu Heung (as Ka-fai Lau)
Tiet Wo Chu	...	Chow Hung (as Tit-wo Chu)
Anita Yuen	...	Miss Nine (as Wing-yee Yuen)
King-Tan Yuen	...	Madame
Isabel Leung	...	Hooker (as Pui-wu Leung)
Tin-Yee Ka	...	Hooker
Linda Cheung	...	Hooker (as Lan-ying Cheung)
Julie Lee	...	Hooker
Chung-Shun Chu	...	Ching Wa

Storyline

Jet Li stars in this comic spectacle as a Chinese "Robin Hood" who stumbles upon a kidnapping scheme after unwittingly opening a martial arts school next to a brothel!

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Plot Keywords:

martial art | kidnapping | wuxia fiction | legendary hero | based on legend | 

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | History

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Release Date:

1 April 1993 (Hong Kong)

Also Known As:

Deadly China Hero

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Company Credits

Production Co:

Win's Film Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

111 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the scene where Ah So, Leung Fu and Mass Tar Wong attack the temple, Mass Tar Wong attacks a perverted monk on behalf of Wong Fei-Hung, Miss Nine and Beggar So. When asked by the perverted monk who Beggar So is, Mass Tar Wong says he doesn't know. Beggar So was originally one of the Ten Tigers of Canton along with Wong Kei-Ying and he is often associated with the Chinese fighting form "Drunken Boxing".

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Quotes

Wong Fei-hung: Fau San Shadow-less Kick!
[punches Liu several times]
Liu-Heung: [recoiling] What! Wong Fei-hung, you said it was the Shadow-less kick!
Wong Fei-hung: So Wong Fei-hung can't lie now? Idiot! Fau San Shadow-less Kick!
[kicks Liu off the bridge]
Liu-Heung: [falling] Wong, you're tacky! I won't let you escape so easily!
Wong Fei-hung: If I tell lies, you don't like it. If I tell the truth, you still don't like it. So difficult to please people!

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Crazy Credits

The closing credits feature outtakes from filming of the movie

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Connections

References Drunken Master (1978)

User Reviews

New entry of ¨Last hero in China¨ with the mythical figure ¨ Wong Fei-hung¨, well performed by Jet Li

This film produced by mythic Golden Harvest is based on a legendary Chinese character : Wong Fei-hung, basic figure in the Chinese folklore. He was a famous practicing of ¨Hung gar Kung Fu¨and ¨Tai Chi¨ and his character served as starring in various film from art martial history. Here is well played by Jet Li, Wong has changed his art- martial school in Canton but results he has just moved near a brothel. Wong is worried and a prostitutes attempt to lure him. Soon he's fighting exaggerated nasties, corrupts authorities, judge and a monks from a weird temple dedicated to slave-trading where are kidnapped beautiful girls for human traffic. Meanwhile, Wong is poisoned and turned deaf but is healed by acupuncture by a traveling artists. Ultimately, there take place the parade the lion against centipede dance-fight with a spectacular and breathtaking struggle with hyperbolic Kung Fu, plenty of kicks, bounds and leaps.

The Wong character, both a doctor and professor of martial art, served as starring in various movies from arts-martial cinema history. Wong figure reflects the Chinese cultural identity facing foreigner invasion that submitted China, especially during XIX century (Boxers war, Opium war). Wong was played by Jet Li in six occasions, and appears in the Jackie Chan's ¨Drunken master¨films, besides appears as secondary character in the new version of ¨Iron Monkey¨ also titled ¨Wong Fei Hung¨ with Donnie Yen. Here, Jet Li reprise splendidly his role who became him as a real star in Asian markets . Li is the biggest Asian movie star after Jackie Chan, he won Chinese national championship in the acrobatic martial art, Wushu. Jet Li, lights in his fighting , using Kung Fu special slicks : drunken boxing, tiger or crane technical though many confronting are filmed with goofy humor and silly comedy. The fights are choreographed by means of cables by Woo- Yuen Ping, author of choreography of hits as Fearless, Kunfu hustle, Danny the dog, Kill Bill and Matrix, among others.