The Storm Warriors

The Storm Warriors
Teaser poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese風雲II
Simplified Chinese风云II
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinFēng Yún Èr
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingFung1 Wan4 Ji6
Directed byDanny Pang
Oxide Pang
Screenplay byDanny Pang
Oxide Pang
Pang Pak-sing
Timax Wong
Based onFung Wan
by Ma Wing-shing
Produced byDanny Pang
Oxide Pang
Alvin Lam
Cheung Hong-tat
StarringAaron Kwok
Ekin Cheng
Nicholas Tse
Charlene Choi
Simon Yam
Kenny Ho
CinematographyDecha Srimantra
Edited byCurran Pang
Music byRonald Ng
Production
companies
Universe Entertainment
Sil-Metropole
Chengtian Entertainment
Distributed byUniverse Films Distribution Co. Ltd.
Release date
  • 10 December 2009 (2009-12-10)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeUS$5,668,356[1]

The Storm Warriors is a 2009 Hong Kong wuxia fantasy film produced and directed by the Pang brothers. It is the second live-action film adaptation of artist Ma Wing-shing's manhua series Fung Wan, following the 1998 film The Storm Riders. The Storm Warriors is based on Fung Wan's Japanese Invasion story arc The Death Battle. Ekin Cheng and Aaron Kwok respectively reprise their roles as Wind and Cloud, who this time find themselves up against Lord Godless (Simon Yam), a ruthless Japanese warlord bent on invading China. The film is a co-production between Universe Entertainment and Sil-Metropole Organisation.

A sequel to The Storm Riders was first announced in March 2008 after Universe gained rights to the Fung Wan franchise from former film distributor Golden Harvest. The Pangs aimed on creating a big-budgeted film involving visual effects and stated that The Storm Warriors would not be a direct sequel to its 1998 predecessor. Principal photography for The Storm Warriors began in April 2008 and ended in July; filming took place in three studios located in Bangkok, Thailand. The film is notable for being the first Chinese language film shot in bluescreen. During post-production, effects artists worked on scenes involving computer-generated imagery, focusing on the film's setting and backgrounds.

The Storm Warriors was released theatrically in Hong Kong on 10 December 2009.[2]

  1. ^ FUNG WAN II (THE STORM WARRIORS)
  2. ^ "The Storm Warriors Release Date" (in Chinese). HK Headline. Retrieved 14 December 2009.