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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Tsui Hark |
| Stars: |
Jet Li |
| Actors: |
Jacky Cheung |
| Genre: |
Foreign Films |
| Subgenre: |
Chinese/Mandarin · Theatrical Release |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
601643196145 |
| Release Date: |
1991 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 30min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
Cantonese |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 2hr 14min
Release Company: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (January 09, 2001)
UPC: 043396056725 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 2hr 30min |
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Professional Reviews
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(05/21/1992, p.C16, Stephen Holden): "...Balletic displays of martial arts prowess....A witty, extravagantly picturesque homage to Sergio Leone..." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"We can't fight guns with kung fu."--Iron Yim (Yam Sam-Kwoon) to Wong Fei Hung (Jet Li)
"If we fight each other rather than them, soon we'll lose the flour to make our rolls."--Wong Fei Hung
"If they really have gold, why do they come here? Maybe we're standing on gold now."--Wong Fei Hung to his student |
| More Information |
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In one of the recurring gags of ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA, attempts to take Wong Fei Hung's picture always fail. The failure to capture the image of Wong (Jet Li) serves as an appropriate metaphor for the place of the Ching Dynasty folk hero in Chinese cultural memory. A legendary master of a variety of kung fu styles, Wong has been subject to numerous interpretations in dime novels and films since the 1930s. In the late 1970s an irreverent portrait of the young Wong Fei Hung emerged in DRUNKEN MASTER. In director Tsui Hark's hand, the beloved historical figure is given the full lionized treatment as he fights for dignity and self-determination against Western imperialists. A revisionist drama that recalls the struggle of the small-property owner fighting for her land in Sergio Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, Hark's epic is both a tragic and heroic examination of China's transition to modernity. Like the best of Hark's films (ZU: WARRIORS OF THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN), ONCE UPON A TIME contains imaginativ... |
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