Last Hero In China

Starring: Jet Li, Pakcheung Chan Director: Jing Wong, Wooping Yuen Original UK Premiere: 1993 Dvd Release: 5th June, 2000 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Letterboxed, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: English

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In Last Hero in China, Jet Li reprises the role of Wong Fei-hung, a legendary figure in China. Both a doctor & a teacher of martial arts, Wong has just moved his school in Canton, only to discover that the neighbouring house is a brothel. Though Wongs students are delighted & the earnest brothel master only wants to study with him, Wong feels he has lost face. But this becomes the least of his troubles: soon hes fighting a corrupt police chief, a temple of slave-trading monks & a deafness-causing medicine sold to children, & thats just in the first hour. Last Hero in China is a grand melodrama, featuring exaggerated heroes & villains, goofy humour & hyperbolic kung fu action. The plot takes some hard-to-follow turns, but the action is so non-stop it hardly matters. The lion vs centipede dance/fight has to be seen to be believed, to say nothing of the priest with a floating lotus chariot & a flying claw. Jet Li is in fine form, Gordon Liu is maniacal & despicable, & the lovely Cheung Man plays an expert martial artist looking for her kidnapped sister. The character of Wong Fei-hung also appears in the Once Upon a Time in China series & in Jackie Chans Drunken Master movies.

Jet Li is a martial artist & film actor. He won the Chinese Wushu national championship five times, which eventually led to a career as a martial arts movie star, first in mainland China, then in Hong Kong & now in Hollywood. He has made many movies in Hong Kong over the years. His debut in Hollywood was in Lethal Weapon 4 as a villain. His first leading role in a Hollywood movie was in Romeo Must Die. After that came Kiss of the Dragon, The One premièred in North America on November 2, 2001 & Cradle 2 the Grave premièred in North America on February 28, 2003. His latest movie to premiere in North America is Hero. the Shaolin Temple series - the films that introduced him; the Once Upon a Time in China series, about the semi-legendary Chinese folk hero; Fist of Legend, which, contrary to popular belief, was not a remake of Bruce Lee s The Big Boss, but rather of Bruce Lees Chinese Connection ; & the Fong Sai Yuk films, about another Chinese folk hero. As one might expect from a martial artist of his calibre, he performs most of his own stunts. Posters Of Jet Li

Editors Choice: The One, Cradle 2 The Grave, Hero, Kiss Of The Dragon, Romeo Must Die, Unleashed, Jet Li, Once Upon A Time In China And America, View DVDology

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