Underplayed Gems

Iron Monkey (1993)

Iron Monkey poster
Original title
黃飛鴻之鐵馬騮
Directed by
Yuen Woo-ping
Genre
comedy film, action film, martial arts film
Country
Hong Kong
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 334 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young Wong Fei-hung and his father get caught up with a masked vigilante known as the Iron Monkey who fights corrupt officials. They must work together to protect the poor and bring justice to their town.

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What happens

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". In 1996, a separate film titled Iron Monkey 2 was released, but it is unrelated to the 1993 film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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