Fong Sai-yuk (film)
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| Directed by | Corey Yuen |
| Produced by | Jet Li |
| Written by | Chan Kin-chung Tsai Kang-yung Jeffrey Lau |
| Starring |
Jet Li Josephine Siao Vincent Zhao Michelle Reis |
| Music by |
Romeo Diaz Mark Lui James Wong |
| Cinematography | Jingle Ma |
| Edited by | Cheung Yiu-chung |
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Eastern Production Ltd.
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| Distributed by | Gala Film Distribution Ltd |
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Running time
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106 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | HK$30,666,842 |
Fong Sai-yuk (Chinese: 方世玉; pinyin: Fang Shi Yu, aka The Legend of Fong Sai-yuk, or simply, The Legend) is a 1993 Hong Kong action and comedy film directed by Corey Yuen starring Jet Li as Chinese folk hero Fong Sai-yuk. The film won the Hong Kong Film Award and Golden Horse Award for best action choreography. The film received positive reviews praising Josephine Siao's acting and the action choreography.
The brash and ambitious Fong Sai-yuk meets the beautiful Ting-ting during a track and field competition and falls in love with her. Ting-ting is the daughter of Tiger Lui, a hot-headed hooligan. Lui stages a martial arts competition for interested men to participate and win his daughter's hand in marriage. The contestant must defeat Lui's wife, Siu-wan, in order to win. Fong joins the contest at his friends' urging and defeats Siu-wan. He catches a glimpse of his future bride, who is actually a servant maid to replace Ting-ting, who went missing during the contest. Fong decides to forfeit the match and leaves.
Fong's mother, Miu Tsui-fa, enters the contest in disguise as a man to help her son win back his lost pride. She defeats Siu-wan by knocking her off the scaffold, but catches her as she falls and they land safely on the ground. After that intimate moment together, Siu-wan becomes romantically attracted to Miu without knowing that Miu is actually a woman in disguise. Lui then forces Miu to marry his daughter. To save his mother from embarrassment, Fong marries Ting-ting on behalf of his "brother" (his mother in disguise as a man), and is confined in his father-in-law's house. He is unaware that his bride is actually his love interest and they fight in the dark. They discover each other's identities eventually.
Miu manages to persuade Lui to let her son return home. Just then, Fong's father, Fong Tak, returns home from a trip. Fong discovers that his father is a member of the Red Flower Society, an underground resistance movement that aims to overthrow the ruling Manchu-led Qing dynasty. While Fong Tak is having a conversation with fellow members, they are ambushed by the Governor of Nine Gates and his soldiers. The Governor demands that Fong Tak hand over the name list of the society's members, but he refuses. Just then, Fong Sai-yuk and his mother show up, and Fong fights with the Governor and holds him off until his parents have escaped.
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