Once Upon a Time in China III
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.
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Cast
- Jet Li
- Wong Fei-hung
- Rosamund Kwan
- Thirteenth Aunt Siu-kwan
- Max Mok Siu-chung
- Leung Foon
- Xiong Xin-xin
- Clubfoot Seven
- Lau Shun
- Wong Kei-ying
- John Wakefield
- Tomansky
- Meng Chin
- Empress Dowager Cixi
Credits
- Director
- Tsui Hark
- Produced by
- Tsui Hark
- Ng See-yuen
- Screenplay by
- Tsui Hark
- Hanson Chan Tin-suen
- Charcoal Tan
- Cinematography by
- Andrew Lau Wai-keung
- Edited by
- Marco Mak Chi-sin
- Angie Lam On-yee
- Art director
- Timothy Yip Gam-tim
- Costume designer
- Ching Tin-giu
- Martial-arts direction by
- Yuen Bun
- Original music by
- William Wu Wai-lap
- Tsui Hark