Cast: Jet Li, Sung-Yun Chan,
Josephine Siao, Li Xia Xing, Chu Kong
Directed by Corey Yuen
The evil Emperor suffers from unpopularity
among his people, who have formed the Red Flower Society, an
underground organization vowing to overthrow the malevolent regime.
A list is circulating which contains the names of the members of this
secret organization, and the Emperor is murdering many citizens in
his search for this list. Fong Sai Yuk, a young martial arts expert
recently married to a wealthy and beautiful daughter of a Cantonese
merchant, does what he can to protect his father from being
assassinated, after it is discovered that he is a member of the Red
Flower Society.
FONG SAI YUK is a wonderful mix of
comedy, romance, action, and political intrigue. It is quite
astonishing to consider how the film can handle such a wide mix of
tempos, styles, and genres and still work, but it does. At times
laugh-out-loud hilarious, at others heart-wrenching, and at others
exhiliratingly graceful in it's action scenes. It does so much in
under two hours, and does all of them well. What more could you want
from an action/comedy? This has it all. A great cast and
brilliantly stylish direction make this a quintessential example of
Hong Kong kung-fu cinema.
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