{"id":16474,"date":"2024-06-01T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16474"},"modified":"2024-05-31T20:15:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T00:15:29","slug":"once-upon-a-time-in-china-ii-1992-tsui-hark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16474","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Time in China II (1992, Tsui Hark)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jet Li and Rosamund Kwan are back, taking vacation with Foon (now played by Max Mok, Sammo&#8217;s buddy in <em>Pedicab Driver<\/em>), apparently with no hard feelings after Foon teamed up with the disruptive Iron Vest in <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16373\">part one<\/a>.  Strange for this episode to be the follow-up, since the first one begins with Wong Fei-hung wishing to expel all foreigners, and here his enemy is a violent flaming-arrow-shooting cult which wishes to&#8230; expel all foreigners.  Kidnapping Rosamund for owning a camera and burning down Jet&#8217;s medical conference are direct attacks, true.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/ouatic202.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The baddest-ass fighter isn&#8217;t even a cult member (though the cult&#8217;s bulletproof mystic is pretty good, played by Jet&#8217;s stunt double), it&#8217;s a cop who&#8217;s happy to play-fight Wong but won&#8217;t help out the children the cult is trying to murder.  The cop is Donnie Yen in his breakout year, with Tsui casting him in this and <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16483\">the <em>Dragon Inn<\/em> remake<\/a>.  Both these guys die in the end, after some magical wire work, as does friendly David Chiang (the dandy of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14815\">Boxer from Shantung<\/a><\/em>), but beloved Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen (Zhang Tielin of <em>The Magic Crane<\/em>) escapes safely to begin his revolution.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/ouatic201.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>In the extras, Yen casually refers to himself as &#8220;the ultimate martial arts opponent for Jet Li&#8221; and explains the difference between being a great martial artist and a great martial arts actor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jet Li and Rosamund Kwan are back, taking vacation with Foon (now played by Max Mok, Sammo&#8217;s buddy in Pedicab Driver), apparently with no hard feelings after Foon teamed up with the disruptive Iron Vest in part one. Strange for this episode to be the follow-up, since the first one begins with Wong Fei-hung wishing [&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":[451,200,13,3140,639,181,1979,3193],"class_list":["post-16474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-china","tag-criterion","tag-donnie-yen","tag-jet-li","tag-sequel","tag-tsui-hark","tag-wong-fei-hung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16474","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=16474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16501,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16474\/revisions\/16501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}