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Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery(火燒紅蓮寺)

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China · 1928

Director Zhang Shichuan
Starring Jie Tang, Xianzhai Wang, Butterfly Wu, Peizhen Xia
Genre Action, Drama

After being defeated in a fight by a local gang, local official Lu Fengyang sends his weak and sickly son Lu Xiaoqing to study with a master of the Kunlun school of martial arts. Recovered and strong, he comes upon the Red Lotus Temple, and puts up there for the night. Unable to sleep, he begins looking around the palatial temple, and discovers a room decorated with many images of Buddhist demons, and an altar to worship them. Entering to look around, he finds the entrance to a deep cave from which an oppressive, foul odor emanates. (http://www.chinesemirror.com/index/2009/08/among-the-best-of-28-burning-red-lotus-temple.html) This wuxia serial was adapted from a newspaper serial (Strange Tales of the Adventurer in the Wild Country) and released in 18 feature-length parts over a period of 3 years. In its entirety it would be 27 hours long. Considered lost.

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