Shaolin (film)
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Hong Kong film poster
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| Traditional | 新少林寺 |
| Simplified | 新少林寺 |
| Mandarin | Xīn Shàolín Sì |
| Cantonese | San1 Siu3Lam4 Zi2 |
| Directed by | Benny Chan |
| Produced by | Benny Chan Albert Lee |
| Written by | Alan Yuen |
| Starring |
Andy Lau Nicholas Tse Jackie Chan Fan Bingbing Wu Jing |
| Music by |
Nicolas Errèra Anthony Chue |
| Cinematography | Anthony Pun |
| Edited by | Yau Chi-wai |
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Production
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Emperor Motion Pictures
China Film Group Huayi Brothers Media Corporation Beijing Silver Moon Productions Ltd. China Songshan Shaolin Temple Culture Communication Center |
| Distributed by | Emperor Motion Pictures |
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Release date
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Running time
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131 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong China |
| Language | Mandarin Cantonese |
| Box office | US$33,470,508 (China) US$2,632,485 (Hong Kong) |
Shaolin (also known as The New Shaolin Temple) is a 2011 Hong Kong-Chinesemartial arts film produced and directed by Benny Chan, and starring Andy Lau and Nicholas Tse with a special appearance by Jackie Chan.
In Dengfeng, Henan during the warlord era of early Republican China, a warlord named Hou Jie defeats a rival, Huo Long, and seizes control of Dengfeng. Huo Long flees to Shaolin Temple to hide, but Hou Jie appears and shoots him after tricking him out of his treasure map. Hou Jie ridicules the Shaolin monks before leaving.
Feeling that his sworn brother, Song Hu, is taking advantage of him, Hou sets a trap for Song in a restaurant under the guise of agreeing to his daughter's engagement to Song's son. Meanwhile, Hou's deputy, Cao Man, ambitious and feeling used by Hou, has decided to betray him. During the dinner, Song states his intention to retire and cede everything to Hou but is then secretly warned Hou means to kill him. In rage and embarrassment, Hou fatally wounds Song. Both families are then attacked by Cao's assassins. Despite being shot by Hou, Song saves him with a warning, allowing him to escape, and then dies. While fleeing, Hou's wife and daughter are separated. Hou's wife is rescued by some passing-by Shaolin monks who were stealing rice from the military granary to help refugees living at the temple. Hou escapes with his daughter, but she is severely injured by the assassins' carriage. After a chase by the assassin carriages, Hou and his daughter fall off a cliff. In desperation, he brings her to Shaolin, begging the monks to save her life. Their efforts were in vain however, and she dies of her injuries. Hou's wife blames him for the death of their daughter and leaves him. Hou attacks the monks in anger but is quickly subdued.
He wanders in shock near Shaolin until he meets the monk cook Wudao, who provides him food and shelter, after many days being stranded under a pit. Hou feels guilty for his past misdeeds and decides to become a monk and atone for his sins. Initially in his stay, some monks are still angry at him, but he decides to stay. During his stay in Shaolin, he gradually learns Shaolin's principles through study and martial arts, reforms, and finds peace and enlightenment. From the refugees, Hou discovers Cao had recruited male refugees to build a railway -- a concession he opposed when he was still a warlord -- and the workers have disappeared. Hou discovers that Cao has been unearthing antique relics on pretext of building a railway and having the refugees massacred afterwards to silence them. He intimidates the guards burying recent victims,then loads the corpses in a cart and drag it to the temple gate,where villagers and refugees identify their missing loved ones.
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