Heroes Among Heroes (1993)

Original title

蘇乞兒

Directed by

Yuen Woo-ping

Genre

action film, martial arts film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a Hong Kong martial arts film set in the Qing Dynasty. Donnie Yen plays So Chan, a martial arts master who joins Officer Lin Zexu and Wong Fei-hung to fight against opium smugglers.

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What happens

Heroes Among Heroes (Chinese: 蘇乞兒) is a 1993 Hong Kong martial arts film produced and directed by Yuen Woo-ping and starring Donnie Yen as the protagonist So Chan, who was one of the Ten Tigers of Canton. The film shows opium smugglers in the Qing Dynasty, China, with Officer Lin Zexu and Chinese martial arts master and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity Wong Fei-hung fighting against them. It was released in the US as Fist of the Red Dragon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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