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The Vigilantes In Masks intertitle
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Genre | Wuxia, romance, comedy |
Directed by | Lee Kwok-lap |
Starring |
Wallace Huo Cecilia Liu Ma Tianyu Shi Xingyu Edwin Siu Liu Kai-chi |
Opening theme | "The Opening of the World and Plum Blossoms" (天地梅花開) performed by Hu Ge |
Ending theme | "Bird of Paradise" (天堂鳥) performed by Zheng Jiajia |
Country of origin | China |
Original language(s) | Mandarin |
No. of episodes | 30 |
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Producer(s) | Karen Tsoi |
Location(s) | China |
Running time | 45 minutes per episode; 19:30 Daily (2 episodes per day) ShenzhenTV; 19:35 Daily (2 episodes per day) SoutheastTV |
Production company(s) | Chinese Entertainment Shanghai |
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Original network | CTV; SZMG ShenzhenTV, FMG SoutheastTV |
Original release | January 1, 2011 |
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Traditional Chinese | 怪俠一枝梅 | ||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 怪侠一枝梅 | ||||||
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Guàixiá Yìzhīméi |
The Vigilantes in Masks is a Chinese television series produced by Chinese Entertainment Shanghai. Previous adaptations include a 1960 Hong Kong television series, a 1994 film, a 2005 TVB production, a 2008 SBS South Korean television drama, Iljimae, and a 2009 MBC South Korean adaptation The Return of Iljimae. The story is based on folktales of a Robin Hood-style hero who lived in the Ming Dynasty.
Li Gexiao is a warrior and has intelligence matching his skills. He was previously a high ranking marshal with great law enforcement authority. However, after his enemy framed him with a crime he did not commit and executed his family, the former marshal was forced to become a fugitive. Years later, he came out of hiding to help a former colleague recover a cargo of stolen gold for disaster relief. He and three chivalrous strangers, thief Yan Sanniang, grifter He Xiaomei, and strongman Chai Hu, unite to form a heroic band of masked vigilantes called "Yi Zhi Mei", who rob the rich and corrupt to help the poor and helpless, always leaving a plum flower at the scene as their calling card. In the jianghu, they are also known to fight injustice, corruption and oppression by the government.