The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk

Fong Sai Yuk brings the life of the legendary martial arts master to the big screen with Jet Li in the leading role in what constitutes one of the greatest martial arts movies ever made.The story begins with Jet defending a girl's modesty and, hence, being challenged to a competition pitting him in such events as the long jump and the sprint relay, which witnesses him eliciting the girl whose modesty he rescued into the race for want of an extra person to fulfill the conditions of the race which requires three participants. Having defeated the bullies in a fair competition, he surrenders his medal to the girl as a present.Then, the story progresses with Jet Li participating in a tournament with a rich man's wife, with excellent skills in wushu, in an attempt to win the daughter's hand in marriage as that constitutes the price for winning. Here we are treated to one of the most innovative and creative fight scenes ever captured on film that aptly demonstrates Jet Li's unparalled skill in martial arts, where he easily defeats the rich man's wife only to deliberately throw the match after catching a glimpse of what constitutes one of the ugliest women on earth, whom he didn't realize was a mere stand-in for the real price.However, having heard of Jet's defeated, his mother, challenges the rich man's wife in an attempt to restore honour to the Sai Yuk family, and, in so doing, finds herself irrevocably bound to the pledge of marriage that comprise the condition of the tournament, having disguised herself as a man.Sai Yuk is, hence, forced into the marriage, which when he comes to realize involves the girl, whose virtue he had rescued, causes him extreme jubilance.However, Sai Yuk's father, being a wanted rebel by the emperor, is captured, spurring Jet to come to his rescue and, hence, engaging in the climactic battle that ends the movie.Fong Sai Yuk is without a doubt one of the greatest martial arts movies ever made.

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Love this movie. It’s funny and entertaining. It’s one of those movies that you can always go back to, even after years of not watching, and still enjoy watching it. A keeper for me.

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What a great movie. Another solid offering from Jet Li in the Prime of Hong Kong Cinema, Directed by Corey Yuen. It is lots of fun to watch, as all of the characters are silly to some extent, as well as containing fast paced exciting Kung Fu.Jet Li's character is the Legendary martial artist Fong Sai Yuk, and is portrayed similiarly to Jackie Chan's version of Wong Fei Hung in the Drunken Master Films. In fact that is probably the best comparision, as both films portray chinese folk heroes in their youth, as N'er Do Wells.But that is really here nor there. This film is meant to be taken lightly, I believe, and is an absolute blast to watch when all considerations of Seriousness and Anachronism are thrown out the Window.

I like watching these old movies and I ran across this one on amazon while searching for other martial arts movies. I had seen it before along time ago and I decided to take a chance and order it. I was glad I did a great movie at a great price. The picture and sound quality is very good , I really enjoyed it.

Great movie

I enjoy this Action-Comedy. Enjoyable fight scenes and comedic scenes. I like the funny character Macu. Who i think make some funny faces. Of course Jet Li and the villain Man Cheuk Chiu is also good. I like to see the sequel released on Blu-ray.Picture quality: 4/5I used to watch this on my old Dimension DVD. Seeing it now i full HD quality, it is much better. The picture quality looked nice to me and it had grain in picture. I don`t remember any problems with it.Audio quality: 4/5I tested the English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and the Cantonese track. I did find the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track to be best. The American BD has only the tracks in lossy quality. This is the best edition of the film.Film: 4/5Overall: 4/5

Greatest movie of jet li career, even tops once upon a time in China but it's so unfortunate that the company releasing this version stupidly decided to cut complete scenes out of the film because they thought it wouldn't matter, well it does and it makes the fact that this was the first original language release so frustrating and insulting, due to this being the only uk release I would still suggest checking it out and just hope they do right in the future and release the full cut

THE FILM IS AS GOOD AS THE FIRST " THE LEGEND" BUT IT HAS SUBTITLES THE OTHER ONE IS DUBBED IN ENGLISH

good martial arts film with jet li

but when it got to the post credit warnings it exploded and killed me....brilliant what will they think of next