Iron Monkey | |||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 少年黃飛鴻之鐵馬騮 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 少年黄飞鸿之铁马骝 | ||||||||||
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Directed by | Yuen Woo-ping | ||||||||||
Written by | Tsui Hark Cheung Tan Tang Elsa Lau Tai-Mok | ||||||||||
Produced by | Tsui Hark Quentin Tarantino (US release) | ||||||||||
Starring | Donnie Yen Yu Rongguang Jean Wang Angie Tsang Yuen Shun-yi | ||||||||||
Cinematography | Arthur Wong Tam Chi-wai | ||||||||||
Edited by | Marco Mak Angie Lam Andy Chan | ||||||||||
Music by | Richard Yuen (Hong Kong) James L. Venable (United States) Johnny Yeung William Hu Chow Gam-wing | ||||||||||
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Distributed by | Golden Harvest | ||||||||||
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Running time | 90 minutes | ||||||||||
Country | Hong Kong | ||||||||||
Language | Cantonese | ||||||||||
Budget | US$11 million | ||||||||||
Box office | US$14,694,904 |
Iron Monkey is a 1993 Hong Kong martial arts film written and produced by Tsui Hark and directed by Yuen Woo-ping, starring Donnie Yen, Yu Rongguang, Jean Wang, Angie Tsang and Yuen Shun-yi. It is not related to the 1977 Hong Kong film of the same title.
The film is a fictionalised account of an episode in the childhood of the Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung and his father Wong Kei-ying, and their encounter with the "Iron Monkey".[1] In 1996, a separate film titled Iron Monkey 2 was released, but it is unrelated to the 1993 film.[2]