Once Upon a Time in China II

Director: Tsui Hark

1992 / 112min / DCP

No one wields a ’Scope frame with quite the same flexibility and dynamism as Hark, and the spectacular, Sergio Leone–inspired Once Upon a Time in China II shows Hark at his most inspired, keeping up with the human whirlwind that is Jet Li, here returning to the role of physician, martial artist, and 19th-century Cantonese folk hero Wong Fei-hung. Traveling to Canton for a medical conference, Wong finds a city in chaos, with the anti-western White Lotus Cult seeking to snuff out foreign influence by any means necessary, and government forces—including officer Donnie Yen—resorting to violent measures against Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s republican revolutionaries. Unrelenting, utterly dazzling, pedal-to-the-metal action cinema.

Distributor: Janus Films

Part of Don't Play with Fire: The Films of Tsui Hark