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Alternate Titles:
Fong Shi Yu II : Wan fu mo di
Gong fu huang di
Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk 2, The
The Legend 2 (North America)
Related Movies:
Prequel: Fong Sai Yuk (1993)
Rating: 
Released: 1993
Producer:
Director: Corey Yuen Kwai
Actors: Jet Li Lian-Jie, Michelle Reis,
Josephine Siao Fong-Fong, Corey Yuen Kwai, Adam Cheng Siu-Chow, Amy Kwok Oi-Ming
Li reprises his role as the legendary Fong Sai Yuk. Sai Yuk returns to his comedic mother with future wife in tow. Sai Yuk and his wife journey to his father's Red Lotus society where he is looked down upon by existing members. At a very cool dragon dance, enemy forces try to kill his father and he fights off dozens of attackers in a wild aerial and ground fight. Returning to the society, he runs into open confrontation with a senior member of his father's clan, but still ends up on the attack force to secure the ownership of a mysterious box. He fails but in the process, there is some comedy and he flirts with a Manchu woman. Eventually, Sai Yuk offers to marry the girl (who happens to be the daughter of the head Manchu), after fighting off all of her other suitors in a contest atop a tall wooden bridal sedan. His future wife is not impressed, and there are some emotional scenes that are well-acted. After wooing her just long enough to get the box, Sai Yuk escapes with the woman's help and she leaves, knowing that he doesn't really love her (more emotional scenes). Sai Yuk pretends that he didn't get the box because it would be damaging to his father, so his father hobbles him but we find out later it wasn't a permanent injury. Eventually, the bad clansman kills his uncle, throws his father in prison and holds his mother tied above the main courtyard. Sai Yuk comes to the rescue and there is much balancing on stools to keep his mother from being hung and strangled while Sai Yuk is attacked. There are lots of aerial stunts and other wire-work and the final fight is very exciting. Definitely a wire-fu classic and worth a look if you can handle the slightly heavy-handed comedy.
Reviewed: 1999 (Tai Seng, subtitled)
