ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA:
WONG FEI HUNG -- THE TV SERIES
The long await TV series from Tsui Hark, Wong Fei Hung, has be available in the United States since Februrary 13, 1996. Coincidentally, both Mandarin and Cantonese version will be available on the same tape. The good news is MOST of the original cast from Once Upon A Time in China (Can: Wong Fei Hung) is back, including Chiu Man Chuek as Master Wong, Max Mok Siu Chung as Leung Foon, Kent Cheng Juk Si as Porky Wing, and Hung Yun Yun as Ghost Foot Seven, along with new cast members Maggie Siu Mei Kei as 13 Yee, Chan Kwok Bong as Ar Chat So, Jacqueline Law Wai Guen as Ying Goo, plus Derek Yee Tung Sing, Leung Ka Yun, Lau To, Yuen Kit Ying, Ng Yi Lei, Choi Ka Lei, Lau Ka Wing, Kwan Sau Mei, Wan Yeung Ming, Mark Cheng Ho Nam, James Pax (Pak Chin Sat) among the stars. I don't know about you, but the only thing that is stopping me from renting this series is: Tai Seng Video Marketing Inc. has the rights to it and it will be $2 per tape with ONLY 2 episodes on EACH tape. Somebody shoot me.
Cantonese: Siu Lum Goo Si
Literal: Shaolin Story
Running Time: 6 episodes
Master Wong is invited by the monks of Shaolin to treat their
headermaster, who is ill with a peculiar disease. Upon arriving
Shaolin, Master Wong, Wing, and Chat finds that the locals are
upset with the temple except the monks from the Library sector
while the temple is in disarray within. Meanwhile, a deadly mystery
awaits Master Wong and his two students...
Cantonese: Bat Dai Tin Wong
Literal: Eight Great Sky Kings
Running Time: 6 episodes
During the Ching Dynasty, China was divided up by foreign attackers. When the Empress asked why while the North is conquered by the Foreigners and the South still stands strong, one of the generals attributed the succcess of the South to the head trainer of the civilian divison, Wong Fei Hung, so the Empress sent one of the nobles to investigate. In Fu Zhan, Master Wong unknowingly insulted the noble, causing the noble to hire The Eight Great Sky Kings from various regions of Asia to challenge Master Wong...
Cantonese: Mo Tau Jeung Guan
Literal: No Head General
Running Time: 8 episodes
A Northern general (Tsui Kam Kong) sends a general and an entourage to Guongzhou with a hidden agenda. On the way, the general is assassinated. Upon arriving Guongzhou, the assistant general Lau (Wan Yeung Ming) told the governor (Leung Ka Yan) that the general is injured and would be resting at Plum Garden, an estate rumored to be abandoned. With Wong Fei Hung in Fushan, the governor asked Leung Foon (Max Mok Siu Chung) to keep an eye on the governor. Later, the students of Wong Fei Hung stumbled upon the general's headless body, leading to a series that would recover the past of the Plum Garden as well as the Northern general's secret agenda.
Cantonese: Sun Hoi Gap Ming
Literal: Sun Hoi Revolution
Running Time: 8 episodes with Chinese subtitles
Master Wong's "uncle" Beggar So arrvies to visit and to meet with the revolutionaries, who are planning to overthrow the Manchurian government. Unfortunately with the governor setting up from within, Wong Fei Hung and the Revolutionaries fall into a trap...
Cantonese: Lei Sheung Nin Doi
Literal: Ideal Era
Running Time: 6 episodes with Chinese subtitles
The Revolution is finally successful and a new era has begun, but yet another war looms in the horizon, as the military divides up land. Without unified currency, will China ever truly have peace?