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With a cast of newcomers and location shooting in China, Ringo Lam brings a fresh approach to this narrative. Willi Chi is Fong Sai-Yuk (This role was originally created by Hark for Jet Li.), a student monk from the Shaolin monastery, whose martial arts skills are outstanding. He has become the target of a Manchu general named Crimson.
Fong, along with his Uncle and a fellow traveller Tou Tou (Carmen Lee) are captured by Crimson and imprisoned in the Red Lotus Temple -- a subterranean charnel house ruled by Lord Kung, a sadistic Manchu jailer. It's not giving too much away to say Fong Sai-Yuk defies his captors and eventually leads a violent uprising against Elder Kung. And to offset the righteousness of Fong Sai-Yuk, we have the despotic Elder Kung, who, with a flick of his finger controls life and death in the Red Lotus Temple. A frustrated artist he enjoys cave painting using human blood, and takes time out to make conversation with severed heads. Kung is played with an over-the-top relish by veteran Canto actor Wong Kam-Kong (Wonder 7, From Beijing with Love).
Willi Chi in Burning Paradise (1994)
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