{"id":15775,"date":"2023-07-17T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15775"},"modified":"2023-07-16T11:54:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T15:54:29","slug":"moon-warriors-1992-sammo-hung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15775","title":{"rendered":"Moon Warriors (1992, Sammo Hung)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royals Maggie Cheung and Kenny Bee (<em>Shanghai Blues<\/em>) are in trouble, pursued through the bamboo forest by enemies sent by throne-stealer The 14th Prince, until whale(!) warrior Andy Lau helps them out.  They visit the Lord of Lanling for advice and pick up his daughter Anita &#8220;Moony&#8221; Mui.  But the wicked prince (Kelvin Wong of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15539\">Supercop<\/a><\/em> the same year) has a spy in Maggie Cheung, who attacks our heroes in a black disguise.  Things settle down, Andy goes home and the 13th Prince is set to marry Moony, when baddies attack Andy&#8217;s village and murder babies, and Maggie double-crosses 14th and he kills her in front of the others.  This is all too much violence to stand, so Andy&#8217;s orca Sea-Wayne whups 14th&#8217;s fuckin&#8217; face, then the tomb of the ancestors smooshes his head in.  Almost everyone dies, but Andy and his whale are okay, so there really should&#8217;ve been a sequel.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/moonwar1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/moonwar2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/moonwar3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royals Maggie Cheung and Kenny Bee (Shanghai Blues) are in trouble, pursued through the bamboo forest by enemies sent by throne-stealer The 14th Prince, until whale(!) warrior Andy Lau helps them out. They visit the Lord of Lanling for advice and pick up his daughter Anita &#8220;Moony&#8221; Mui. But the wicked prince (Kelvin Wong of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,1705,2916,32,696,2940,2150],"class_list":["post-15775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-andy-lau","tag-anita-mui","tag-hong-kong","tag-maggie-cheung","tag-sammo-hung","tag-whale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15804,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775\/revisions\/15804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}