Iron Monkey (1993 Film)
Iron Monkey is a 1993 Hong Kong martial arts film written and produced by Tsui Hark and directed by martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping, and starring Donnie Yen and Yu Rongguang. It has no relation to the 1977 film of the same name.
The film is a fictionalized account of an episode in the childhood of Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung and his father Wong Kei-ying (Donnie Yen), and their encounter with the "Iron Monkey" (Yu Rongguang). In 1995, a separate film entitled Iron Monkey 2 was released. The film also starred actor Donnie Yen and Billy Chow. Yen portrayed the "Iron Monkey" in the film, but it was not a sequel to the 1993 film.
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