Iron Monkey (1993)
Directed by Yuen Woo-ping
In this Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood, corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a masked bandit known as "Iron Monkey", named after a benevolent deity. When all else fails, the Governor forces a traveling physician into finding the bandit.
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What critics compared Iron Monkey to
Legendary martial arts choreographer and director Yuen Woo-ping will be receiving the Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award, and they should be showing some of his best work at this year’s festival including Donnie Yen’s Iron Monkey, The Miracle Fighters and more.
(Tarantino presented his "Iron Monkey" in the United States.)
Hong-Kong veteran choreographer Yuen Wo-Ping arranged the fight scenes a year before his Crouching Tiger (and two years before many Americans had heard of his Iron Monkey ), bringing new action energy to big-budget Hollywood filmmaking.