| Fong Sai-yuk | |
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| Traditional | 方世玉 |
| Simplified | 方世玉 |
| Mandarin | Fāng Shìyù |
| Cantonese | Fong1 Sai3 Juk6 |
| Directed by | Corey Yuen |
| Produced by | Jet Li |
| Written by | John Chan Tsai Kong-yung Jeff Lau |
| Starring | Jet Li Josephine Siao Vincent Zhao Michelle Reis |
| Music by | Romeo Diaz Mark Lui James Wong |
| Cinematography | Jingle Ma |
| Editing by | Peter Cheung |
| Studio | Eastern Production Ltd. |
| Distributed by | Gala Film Distribution Ltd. |
| Release date(s) | March 4, 1993 |
| Running time | 106 min |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Gross revenue | HK$30,666,842.00 |
Fong Sai-yuk is a 1993 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Corey Yuen and starring Jet Li as Chinese folk hero Fong Sai-yuk.[1]
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The brash and ambitious Fong Sai-yuk meets the beautiful Ting-ting during a track and field competition and falls in love with her. Ting-ting is the daughter of the hot-headed hooligan Tiger Lui. Tiger Lui stages a martial arts competition for interested men to participate and win his daughter's hand in marriage. The contestant must defeat Tiger Lui's wife, Siu-wan, in order to win. Fong Sai-yuk joins the contest at his friends' urging and defeats Siu-wan. He catches a glimpse of his future bride, who is actually a servant maid to replace the temporarily missing Ting-ting. Fong Sai-yuk decides to forfeit the match and leaves.
Fong Sai-yuk's mother, Miu Chui-fa, enters the contest in disguise as a man to help her son win back the lost glory. She defeats Siu-wan and knocks her off the scaffold. Miu Chui-fa catches Siu-wan as she falls and they land safely on the ground. After that intimate moment together, Siu-wan becomes romantically attracted to Miu Chui-fa, as she is unaware that Miu is actually a woman in disguise. Tiger Lui forces Miu Chui-fa to marry his daughter. To save his mother from embarrassment, Fong Sai-yuk marries Ting-ting on behalf of his "brother" (his mother in disguise as a man), and is confined in his father-in-law's house. He is unaware that his bride is actually his love interest and they fight in the dark. They discover each other's identities eventually.
Miu Chui-fa manages to persuade Tiger Lui to let her son return home. Just then, Fong Sai-yuk's father, Fong Tak, returns home from a trip. Fong Sai-yuk discovers that his father is a member of the Red Flower Society, an underground resistance movement that aims to overthrow the ruling Ching Dynasty. While Fong Tak is having a conversation with fellow members, they are ambushed by the Governor of Nine Gates and his soldiers. The Governor demands that Fong Tak hand over the name list of the society's members, but the latter refuses. Just then, Fong Sai-yuk and his mother appear, and Fong fights with the Governor and holds him off until his parents have escaped to safety.
Fong Sai-yuk and his parents hide in their in-laws' house to evade the authorities, but the Governor pays a visit to Tiger Lui and recognizes them. In the ensuing battle, Fong Tak is captured while Siu-wan dies from a gunshot wound. Fong Sai-yuk lies to his mother that his father has been rescued and decides to save his father alone without letting her know. He attempts to storm the execution ground and fights with the Governor to save his father. At the critical moment, Miu Chui-fa appears together with the Red Flower Society's members and their leader, Chan Ka-lok. They defeat the Governor and his men and succeed in freeing Fong Tak. Before the film ends, Fong Sai-yuk becomes Chan Ka-lok's godson and he joins his godfather on their noble quest as they ride off towards the sunset together.
Dimension re-scored, re-edited and dubbed the film in English only. Removed scenes include Sai-Yuk curling his mother's hair and testing Tiger Lui's patience with a racket.[3] The UK DVD had this version and additionally contains a BBFC cut to remove the sight of an illegal horse-fall (during the finale).
The Universe re-mastered DVD is the HK version (with removable English subtitles), but is slightly cut. The uncut version can be found on any other release by Universe, but with embedded subtitles (on the LD and non-remastered DVD). Other uncut versions include the (French) HKVideo and (Japanese) Klockworx DVDs (containing no English subtitles).
The China DVD release from Tung Ah contains this Mandarin-dubbed version (with embedded Chinese and English subtitles). The following are some differences between this version and the original one:
Fong Sai-yuk was a box office hit on Hong Kong, grossing HK $30,666,842. As a result, a sequel, Fong Sai-yuk II, was commissioned immediately and released the very same year.
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