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3 | ''The Burning Of Red Lotus Temple'' (original title 火燒紅蓮寺) is a Chinese silent film directed by Zhang Shichuan and produced by the Mingxing Film Company (明星影片公司). With a total running-time of twenty-seven hours, it is among the longest films ever made, and was released as a serial in ''nineteen'' feature-length parts between 1928 and 1931. |
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5 | Adapted from the novel ''Tale Of The Extraordinary Swordsman'', it was one of the first {{Wuxia}} movies, and by far the most successful Chinese film of the pre-war years, setting stylistic standards for the genre, and for Chinese cinema generally, that remain influential to this day. Dozens of sequels, spin-offs and imitations were made in the following years. Tragically, no copies of any of its reels survive today. |
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7 | Creator/ShawBrothers released a remake decades later, ''Film/TempleOfTheRedLotus'', which is notably the film debut of martial arts icon Creator/JimmyWangYu. |
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10 | !!Contains examples of: |
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12 | * ActionGirl: Honggu. |
13 | * EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: More than ''four hundred'' stuntmen were recruited from martial arts schools. |
14 | * ImplausibleFencingPowers |
15 | * KnightErrant: The film practically invented many wuxia film tropes, including the young man who accidentally discovers a secret, and gains special kung-fu powers which enable him to become an omnipotent fighter who rescues the weak and vanquishes evil. |
16 | * KungFuWizard. |
17 | * SupernaturalMartialArts: A lot of modern technology didn't exist, but the visual effects are pretty remarkable for the time. |
18 | * WireFu: One of the earliest examples in film. |
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