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Product Information

In 19th century China, Martial arts hero Wong Fei-Hung fights the invaders of China (Americans, English, French) but has to protect his Westernised aunt. Can Kung-Fu fight bullets?

Product Identifiers

ProducerRaymond Chow, Tsui Hark

EAN5060085367356

eBay Product ID (ePID)111283434

Product Key Features

ActorYuen Biao, Jacky Cheung, Rosamund Kwan, Kent Cheng, Jet Li

Film/TV TitleOnce Upon a Time in China

DirectorTsui Hark

LanguageCantonese

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time128 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Release Year2012

FormatDVD

FranchiseOnce Upon a Time in China

FeaturesFeature Length audio commentary with Bey Logan and Mark King\Animated Biography Showcase \Interview Gallery\Original Theatrical Trailer \UK Promotional Trailer\Production Photo Gallery, Widescreen, With Subtitles

GenreAction & Adventure, Historical

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureHong Kong

ComposerJames Wong

Additional InformationThis exceptional epic, combines hard-hitting martial-arts action with romance, comedy, history, genuine poignance, and sharp insight into the effects of the century-long encroachment of Western civilization in Asia. The story centers on the exploits of Master Wong Fei-hung (a familiar figure in Hong Kong cinema) a 19th-century doctor, Confucian, and exceptional martial artist. As the film begins, he has just opened a new clinic in Canton Province. To help him with patients, he hires a few apprentices including Porky Lang (the comic relief) and Buck Teeth Sol, who was raised outside China and barely can speak the language. Wong is platonically involved with the lovely, worldly Aunt Yee, who has been abroad most of her life. Wong soon gets in trouble when he begins using his skills to protect and assist the poor and helpless in his community. As a result, someone torches his clinic, forcing Wong and his compadres to set off and get spectacularly staged revenge. They also try vainly to stop Western culture from changing traditional Chinese ways, but they soon find that they may as well be shoveling sand against a rising tide.

ScreenwriterTsui Hark

Dubbing LanguagesEnglish

CinematographerDavid Chung, Arthur Wong

Sound sourceDolby Digital

EditorMak Chi-Sin

Movie/TV TitleOnce Upon A Time In China