1993 | Hong Kong | Fiction

Wong Fei Hung III: Si wong jaang ba (Once Upon a Time in China III)

  • Cantonese, Mandarin 111 mins
  • Director | Tsui Hark
  • Writer | Tsui Hark, Hanson Chan Tin-suen, Charcoal Tan
  • Producer | Tsui Hark, Ng See-yuen

STATUS: Released

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Jet Li’s third outing as the storied martial-arts hero Wong Fei-hung is an exhilarating celebration of Chinese culture peppered with a dash of international espionage. This time around, Wong travels to Beijing, where he finds himself drawn into the intrigue surrounding an epic lion-dance competition, spars with a Russian rival for the affections of his beloved Thirteenth Aunt (Rosamund Kwan), and fights to foil a foreign plot to assassinate the real-life Chinese diplomat Li Hongzhang. The eye-popping lion-dance set pieces—which combine vibrantly colored, fire-breathing pageantry with martial-arts mayhem—rank among the most visually spectacular achievements of the Once Upon a Time in China series.

Culture Espionage Rivalry Tradition Spectacle
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The Criterion Collection
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