Yuen Woo Ping, who is also the action director has come up with a number of more than impressive choreographies, taking advantage of his protagonists'abilities, as Donnie Yen in his 30s moved like a lightning while Lee Fai (White Eagle, one of Hin-hung's disciples) and Angie Tsang (Wong Fei Hung) were Wu Shu champions. The action scenes in the film are impervious. Their clash seems inevitable, but eventually Hin-hung, an Inspector for the government arrives in the area with his team, and everything turns upside down. However, when father and son first arrive in the town, Kei-ying is tasked with capturing the Iron Monkey, after a series of unfortunate events that lead to his son held hostage by Cheng.Īs the merchants in the area refuse to have anything to do with the newcomer, since they consider the Iron Monkey their hero, an exhausted and extremely hungry Kei-ying ends up in Yang Tianchun's house, where the doctor and his wife (?), Miss Orchid take care of him, even helping him release his son from the jail Cheng has put him in. Iron Monkey is actually the alter ego of a traditional Chinese medicine physician called Yang Tianchun, who, in a combination of Zorro and Robin Hood, dresses in black every night, punishing the corrupt officials of the area, and particularly Governor Cheng, and giving their spoils to the poor. ![]() ![]() In another episode from folk hero Wong Fei-hung's life, whose heroics have been immortalized in films the “Once Upon a Time in China” series, “Drunken Master”, “Magnificent Butcher” etc, the very young at the time Wong meets Iron Monkey, as he travels with his father Wong Kei-ying.
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