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Iron Monkey by Woo-ping Yuen
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DVD detailsActor: Donnie Yen, Jean Wang, Rongguang Yu, Shun-Yee Yuen, Sze-Man Tsang Director: Woo-ping Yuen Brand: Buena Vista Home Video Cinematographer: Arthur Wong Producer: Hark Tsui Writer: Hark Tsui Producer: Quentin Tarantino Writer: Cheung Tan Writer: Pik-yin Tang Writer: Tai-Muk Lau DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Chinese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1 Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 85 minutes DVD Release Date: 2002-03-26 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Miramax
Description of Iron MonkeyWith sensational, nonstop martial arts excitment supplied by the acclaimed choreopgraher of THE MATRIX and CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, IRON MONKEY is the spirited tale of a mysterious and mythical Chinese legend. In a desperate and unjust land, where government corruption rules the day, only one man -- known as the Iron Monkey -- has the courage to challenge the system and fight back. Under the shadow of night, in the silence before dawn, he fights to give hope to the poor and oppressed. Although no one knows his name or where he comes from, his heroism makes him a living legend to the people ... and a wanted man to the powers that be! Presented by Quentin Tarantino -- don't miss the exhilarating action adventure that critics everywhere have called one of the greatest martial arts films of all time! Since the late 1800s, the real-life Cantonese patriot Wong Fei-hung has evolved into an icon of Chinese pop culture, a sort of Asian Davy Crockett. He's been a central figure in Hong Kong cinema since the 1950s, most recently in Tsui Hark 's Once Upon a Time in China series. In this thrilling 1993 adventure directed by Yuen Woo-ping, we meet Wong as an earnest boy traveling with his upright pugilist father (Donnie Yen) and drawing inspiration from the activities of the benevolent masked bandit known as the Iron Monkey (Yu Rong-guang). The sheer physical prowess of the stars is often flabbergasting, and the action set pieces (especially an interlude atop a set of "Chinese poles") are staged for maximum dynamism. In effect, this is a powerful combination of the older, Baltic style of kung fu action and the newer body-slamming style pioneered by Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. This is a perfect martial arts picture to screen for any genre skeptics in your midst. --David Chute
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