Yuen Woo Ping's Iron Monkey [Subtitled English 1993]

About this film

Iron Monkey is a 1993 Hong Kong martial arts film written and produced by Tsui Hark and directed by Yuen Woo-ping , starring Donnie Yen , Yu Rongguang , Jean Wang, Angie Tsang and Yuen Shun-yi. It is not related to the 1977 Hong Kong film of the same title . The film is a fictionalised account of an episode in the childhood of the Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung and his father Wong Kei-ying , and their encounter with the "Iron Monkey". [ 1 ] In 1996, a separate film titled Iron Monkey 2 was released, but it is unrelated to the 1993 film. [ 2 ] Plot The plot centers on a masked martial artist known as Iron Monkey. Iron Monkey is actually the alter ego of a traditional Chinese medicine physician called Yang Tianchun. During the day, Yang runs his clinic and provides free medical treatment for the poor, which he subsidises by charging his rich patients. At night, he dresses in black and travels around town to rob the rich and help the poor. Once, he breaks into the governor's residence and makes off with a hoard of gold. The guards and four Shaolin monks are unable to stop him. The governor orders the chief constable, Fox, to hunt down Iron Monkey and to arrest anyone who is linked to…

Directors & creators

KonCategory III

Subjects

Iron Monkey

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