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Directed by | Raymond Yip |
Written by | Lau Ho-Leung |
Starring | Miriam Yeung Ekin Cheng |
Music by | Ken Chan Chan Kwong-Wing |
Editing by | Cheung Ka-Fai |
Release date(s) | 2003 |
Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | Hong Kong |
Language | Cantonese |
Anna in Kungfuland traditional Chinese: 安娜與武林; simplified Chinese: 安娜与武林; pinyin: An nuó yú wǔ lín; Cantonese Yale: On loh yue miu lam) is a 2003 Hong Kong film directed by Raymond Yip, and starring Miriam Yeung and Ekin Cheng.
The martial arts comedy Anna in Kung Fu Land centers on a young woman who dreams of becoming a movie star. Her father was a monk of the Shaolin temple, who defected to Japan after representing the temple during a martial arts tournament. There he met a Japanese woman and later bore Anna (Miriam Yeung). He starts a martial school in Japan, although he dreams of being reconciled with his former mates.
When his school is invited to be part of a martial arts tournament, he sends his daughter a s his representative. She believes this might give her the opportunity to get her big break, but when that does not happen she becomes focused on beating the oppositions in the tournament. She also becomes embroiled with the marketing executive (Ekin Cheng) who becomes her first love.
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