{"id":16792,"date":"2024-09-28T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16792"},"modified":"2024-09-24T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T15:11:06","slug":"iron-monkey-1993-yuen-woo-ping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16792","title":{"rendered":"Iron Monkey (1993, Yuen Woo-ping)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor Yang (Yu Rongguang of <em>Supercop 2<\/em>, which is a different movie from <em>Police Story 4<\/em> even though <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15539\">Supercop 1<\/a><\/em> was <em>Police Story 3<\/em>) goes around in disguise acting like Disney&#8217;s Robin Hood, with assistant Orchid (Jean Wang, kicking much more ass here than as 14th Aunt), making mockeries of corrupt governor James Wong (a major songwriter, also in <em>Twin Dragons<\/em>) and his lead cop Yuen Shun-Yi (of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15156\">Drunken Master<\/a><\/em>).  Wong Fei-hung&#8217;s dad Donnie Yen (confusingly, he&#8217;ll play the title role in the sequel) is passing through town, the governor holds his son prisoner so he&#8217;ll help them catch the righteous bandit.  But of course they all team up to defeat the evil master (also the evil master of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14468\">Heroic Trio<\/a><\/em> the same year).<\/p>\n<p><em>Twin monkeys:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/ironmonkey1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Much action ensues.  I saw this on VHS or something back in the day, but it&#8217;s extremely helpful to have seen a bunch of kung-fu movies leading up to this, getting used to their plots and moves and sound effects, to appreciate this one&#8217;s particular excellence&#8230; in context of the <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16742\">OUATIC sequels<\/a> going slowly downhill, this feels like the best movie ever made.<\/p>\n<p><em>Like father like son:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/ironmonkey2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/ironmonkey3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor Yang (Yu Rongguang of Supercop 2, which is a different movie from Police Story 4 even though Supercop 1 was Police Story 3) goes around in disguise acting like Disney&#8217;s Robin Hood, with assistant Orchid (Jean Wang, kicking much more ass here than as 14th Aunt), making mockeries of corrupt governor James Wong (a [&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":[451,464,32,1766,3193,3194],"class_list":["post-16792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-corruption","tag-hong-kong","tag-kung-fu","tag-wong-fei-hung","tag-yuen-woo-ping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792","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=16792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16829,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792\/revisions\/16829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}