Underplayed Gems

The Legendary Ranger (1993)

The Legendary Ranger poster
Original title
原振俠
Cast
Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Catherine Hung, Athena Chu, Faye Wong, Gordon Lam, Kwan Hoi San, Marco Ngai
Genre
drama television series
Country
Hong Kong
Length
1 season, 20 episodes
Rating
7.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

It is a 1993 Hong Kong miniseries about a surgeon and adventurer who deals with aliens, magic, and martial arts heroes. It has a pop music video style and a cast of both established and rising stars.

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What happens

The Legendary Ranger (Chinese: 原振俠, Yuan Zhen-xia) is a 1993 Hong Kong cross-genre television miniseries produced by Mui Siu-ching and aired by TVB. The series starred Leon Lai, Michelle Reis and Catherine Hung, and featured a supporting cast of veteran actors, stars, and future stars, including Faye Wong and Athena Chu. It is based on Ni Kuang's fictional surgeon/adventurer Yuan Zhen-xia and is set in the Wisely fictional universe, a setting in which extraterrestrial aliens, magic and wuxia heroes co-exist. At the time Leon Lai was at the beginning of the Four Heavenly Kings period of his career and the series' was filmed and edited, especially the fight scenes, with a pop video sensibility. The series cross-genre setting and visual aesthetic was at the time groundbreaking in comparison to the historical costume wuxia that Hong Kong audiences were used to. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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