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The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk is a Hongkongais film of genre Thriller directed by Corey Yuen released in france in DVD on 6 january 2009 with Jet Li
The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk (1993)
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Add to a movie listFong Sai-yuk (Chinese: 方世玉; pinyin: Fang Shi Yu, aka The Legend of Fong Sai-yuk) is a 1993 Hong Kong action and comedy film directed by Corey Yuen starring Jet Li as Chinese folk hero Fong Sai-yuk. The film won the Hong Kong Film Award and Golden Horse Award for best action choreography. The film received positive reviews praising Josephine Siao's acting and the action choreography.
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The brash and ambitious Fong Sai-yuk meets the beautiful Ting-ting during a track and field competition and falls in love with her. Ting-ting is the daughter of Tiger Lui, a hot-headed hooligan. Lui stages a martial arts competition for interested men to participate and win his daughter's hand in marriage. The contestant must defeat Lui's wife, Siu-wan, in order to win. Fong joins the contest at his friends' urging and defeats Siu-wan. He catches a glimpse of his future bride, who is actually a servant maid to replace Ting-ting, who went missing during the contest. Fong decides to forfeit the match and leaves.Actors
Jet Li
(Fong Sai-Yuk)
Josephine Siao
(Miu Chui-Fa)
Chiu Man-cheuk
(The Governor of Kau Man)
Michelle Reis
(Ting Ting)
Adam Cheng
(Chan Ka-lok)
Sibelle Hu
(Siu-wan)
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