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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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