Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon

Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon
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Directed byTsui Hark
Screenplay byChang Chia-lu
Tsui Hark
Story byChen Kuo-fu
Tsui Hark
Produced byNansun Shi
Chen Kuo-fu
Tsui Hark
James Wang
StarringMark Chao
William Feng
Kenny Lin
Ian Kim
Angela Yeung
Carina Lau
CinematographyChoi Sung-fai
Edited byYu Baiyang
Music byKenji Kawai
Production
companies
Distributed byHuayi Brothers
Emperor Motion Pictures
Release date
  • September 28, 2013 (2013-09-28)
Running time
133 minutes
CountryChina[1]
LanguageMandarin
Box officeUS$98,400,000[2]

Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (Chinese: 狄仁傑之神都龍王) is a 2013 Chinese[1] action-adventure fantasy mystery film directed, produced, and co-written by Tsui Hark, and a prequel to Tsui's 2010 film Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. Taiwanese-Canadian actor Mark Chao takes over from Andy Lau as a young Dee Renjie, while William Feng, Kenny Lin, Ian Kim (in his Chinese debut), and Angelababy co-star alongside a returning Carina Lau from Mystery of the Phantom Flame, rounding up the ensemble cast. The film was shot in native 3D.[3][4][5][6][7]

In Rise of the Sea Dragon, Di investigates the origins and nature of an attack against the Chinese fleet, believed to have been caused by a mysterious sea creature. A sequel of the film and the third installment of the Detective Dee series, titled Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings, was released in 2018, with Chao, Feng, Lin, and Lau all reprising their roles.[8]

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  8. ^ "Cast announced for 'Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings'". Far East Films. 2017-02-13.