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cmovie: Iron Monkey
Oct. 30th, 2011 10:52 pm(This is the 1993 movie, not the 1977 one, which i haven't seen.)
This is the movie in which Wong Fei Hong is played by a young girl. Just typing that makes me want an actual genderswitched Wong Fei Hong.
This was actually one of the first kung fu movies I ever saw. And I thought I had my own DVD of it, but apparently not.
This is basically a Chinese Robin Hood movie about a doctor in 19th century China who lives in a corrupt district with a greedy governor, and so he robs from the rich to give to the poor. As you do. His version of Marian (named Orchid) is an ex-prostitute who is now his nurse and goes out robbing with him from time to time. In the middle of all that pre-adolescent Wong Fei Hong and his daddy (a ridiculously young looking Donnie Yen-the hair actually removes years, I think) wander into town and Wong Fei Hong is basically taken hostage by the governor to force Daddy Wong to hunt down Iron Monkey. Naturally, both Wongs end up bonding with both Iron Monkey and Orchid. There may have been kung fu-assisted cooking involved.
The fight scenes are probably the best part of the movie (especially the last fight, which takes place entirely on top of wooden posts being eaten away by a big fire below) but the whole thing is pretty fun. (I'm saying that a lot with these movies, but I'm not exactly bothering to watch any I'm not pretty sure I'll like, or expending the energy to comment on anything I don't like.)
This is the movie in which Wong Fei Hong is played by a young girl. Just typing that makes me want an actual genderswitched Wong Fei Hong.
This was actually one of the first kung fu movies I ever saw. And I thought I had my own DVD of it, but apparently not.
This is basically a Chinese Robin Hood movie about a doctor in 19th century China who lives in a corrupt district with a greedy governor, and so he robs from the rich to give to the poor. As you do. His version of Marian (named Orchid) is an ex-prostitute who is now his nurse and goes out robbing with him from time to time. In the middle of all that pre-adolescent Wong Fei Hong and his daddy (a ridiculously young looking Donnie Yen-the hair actually removes years, I think) wander into town and Wong Fei Hong is basically taken hostage by the governor to force Daddy Wong to hunt down Iron Monkey. Naturally, both Wongs end up bonding with both Iron Monkey and Orchid. There may have been kung fu-assisted cooking involved.
The fight scenes are probably the best part of the movie (especially the last fight, which takes place entirely on top of wooden posts being eaten away by a big fire below) but the whole thing is pretty fun. (I'm saying that a lot with these movies, but I'm not exactly bothering to watch any I'm not pretty sure I'll like, or expending the energy to comment on anything I don't like.)