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Burning
Paradise |
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Year: |
1993 |
Carman Lee and friends |
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Director: |
Ringo
Lam Ling-Tung |
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Producer: |
Tsui
Hark |
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Writer: |
Nam
Yin |
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Cast: |
Willie
Chi Tian-Sheng, John
Ching Tung, Carman
Lee Yeuk-Tung, Wong Kam-Kong, Yeung Sing, Maggie
Lin Chuan, Yuen Kam-Fai |
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The
Skinny: |
Unheralded
but exciting and involving kung-fu picture from Ringo
Lam. |
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Review
by Kozo: |
Damn
good ancient costume kung-fu and sword movie from that
master of touch-feely films, Ringo Lam. Plot: During
the Ching Dynasty, martial arts hero Fong Sai-Yuk (Willie
Chi) is chased by Manchu soldiers. He shacks up with
a runaway prostitute (Carman Lee), but the two are caught
and taken to the Red Lotus Temple, the scariest place
since the Temple of Doom. There the head baddie (Wong
Kam-Kong) terrorizes everyone by tearing the heads off
of women and painting scary looking stuff on the walls.
Then lots of fighting occurs.
Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam
collaborated to make this dark, well-made kung-fu picture
that's a departure from anything Lam has previously
done. Ostensibly a coming-out vehicle for new kung-fu
star Willie Chi (who went on to become nobody), Burning
Paradise is more successful as a pure action-adventure
exercise. Despite occasional but unobstrusive wackiness,
the film is sure to please a multitude of fans. A minimum
of wirework, great choreography, and terrific atmosphere
combine to make this one of the more satisfying costume
adventure pics of the early nineties. Sadly, it was
also a complete and total flop. (Kozo 1995) |
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image
courtesy of Star Laserdisc Co.
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