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Once Upon a Time in China and America | |||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 黃飛鴻之西域雄獅 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 黄飞鸿之西域雄狮 | ||||||||||
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Directed by | Sammo Hung | ||||||||||
Written by | Sze-to Cheuk-hon Shut Mei-yee Sharon Hui Philip Kwok So Man-sing | ||||||||||
Produced by | Tsui Hark | ||||||||||
Starring | Jet Li Rosamund Kwan Hung Yan-yan Jeff Wolfe Power Chan | ||||||||||
Cinematography | Walter Gregg Lam Fai-tai Koo Kwok-wah | ||||||||||
Edited by | Marco Mak Angie Lam | ||||||||||
Music by | Lowell Lo | ||||||||||
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Running time | 98 minutes | ||||||||||
Country | Hong Kong | ||||||||||
Languages | Cantonese Mandarin English | ||||||||||
Box office | HK$30,268,415.00 (Hong Kong)[1] |
Once Upon a Time in China and America, also known as Once Upon a Time in China VI, (Chinese: 黃飛鴻之西域雄獅) is a 1997 Hong Kong martial arts western film directed by Sammo Hung in his last directorial effort until 2016,[clarification needed] who also worked on the film's fight choreography. The film is the sixth and final installment in the Once Upon a Time in China film series. The film also saw the return of Jet Li as Cantonese martial arts master and folk hero Wong Fei-hung, who had been replaced by Vincent Zhao in the fourth and fifth films. The film was released theatrically in Hong Kong on 1 February 1997, and garnered positive reviews.