The third entry in director Tsui Hark's popular ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA series, featuring Jet Li as legendary martial artist Wong Fei-hung, begins to lose steam with an inconsequential story about an assassination plot linked to a Peking Lion Team dance competition.
In turn-of-the-century China, the Dowager Empress and President Li Hung-chang announce a Lion King Competition as a show of Chinese martial arts power to impress the increasing numbers of foreign diplomats. Wong Fei-hung (Jet Li) and his father's Cantonese Association are repeatedly challenged by
their chief rival, the Tai Ping Lion Team. Wong's girlfriend, Aunt Yee (Rosamund Kwan), becomes friendl...
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
110 mins