Ninja in the Dragon's Den
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Ninja in the Dragon's Den is a 1982 Hong Kong martial arts film
written and directed by Corey Yuen
made his directorial debut, and starring Conan Lee
, Hiroyuki Sanada
and Hwang Jang Lee
.
period, a young ninja
named Jin Wu (Hiroyuki Sanada) wantonly kills samurai
and other government officials, leaving his clan to face the blame. When they start hunting him down, Jin Wu and his wife Akane sail to China both to escape their wrathful kinsmen, and for Jin Wu to complete revenge by finding the last man he holds responsible about for his father's death.
That man, Fukuda, leads a peaceful life as a mirror maker under the name of Uncle Foo. He has a young protégée, however: Jay (Conan Lee), a smug martial artist who constantly tries to prove himself by taking up every opportunity to fight. Jay also constantly teases his lecherous servant Chee (Tai Bo) and takes few things very seriously. However, as he sees his surrogate father attacked, Jay immediately rushes to his aid, but during several clashes he has to find out that he and the ninja are evenly matched.
Eventually, it is revealed that Jin Wu’s father was not killed by his clan members; he had died as a hero in a rebellion instead. Ashamed of his own cowardice in escaping to China years before following that attempted uprising, Foo makes peace with Jin. But before their final encounter, Foo took poison to restore his honor by his own death
, and he asks Jin to kill him in order to spare him the last agony, which promptly leads to a misunderstanding between Jay and Jin. The two battle each other to the top of Jay’s family temple and finally settle their differences just in time to face a spiritual boxer (Hwang Jang Lee), whose son Jay had been insulted in the course of the movie. The film ends with Jay and Jin killing the Sorcerer, with some unwitting assistance from Akane and Chee. The latter promptly tempts fate by claiming the better part of the credit for this victory, prompting Jin and Jay to teach him a lesson ...
at Europe
in Region 2
.
Martial arts film
Martial arts film is a film genre. A sub-genre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous fights between characters, usually as the films' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often as a method of storytelling and character expression and development. Martial arts are frequently...
written and directed by Corey Yuen
Corey Yuen
Corey Yuen Kwai is a Hong Kong actor, filmmaker and producer. He was a member of the Peking Opera Schools and one of the Seven Little Fortunes.-Life and career:...
made his directorial debut, and starring Conan Lee
Conan Lee
Conan Lee Yuen-Ba 李元霸 born Lloyd Hutchinson, is an Asian-American film actor and martial artist.-Biography:Born in Hong Kong but growing up in Queens, New York as Lloyd Hutchinson he was trained in his fathers self defense, he is best known for his roles in cult kung fu/ninja hybrid favorite "Ninja...
, Hiroyuki Sanada
Hiroyuki Sanada
is a Japanese actor.-Life and career:Sanada was born in Tokyo. Originally aiming to be an action star, starting with shorinji kempo, he eventually took up Kyokushin kaikan Sanada began training at age 11 with actor and martial arts star Sonny Chiba's Japan Action Club where he developed good...
and Hwang Jang Lee
Hwang Jang Lee
Hwang Jang Lee is a Korean martial artist and actor. Hwang is perhaps best known as Sheng Kuan in 1978 film Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Wong Chin in 1981 film Hitman in the Hand of Buddha. Variations of his name are often written as Wong Cheng Lee or Wong Cheng Li, in their Cantonese-Chinese...
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Plot
In Japan of the Tokugawa IeyasuTokugawa Ieyasu
was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan , which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Ieyasu seized power in 1600, received appointment as shogun in 1603, abdicated from office in 1605, but...
period, a young ninja
Ninja
A or was a covert agent or mercenary of feudal Japan specializing in unorthodox arts of war. The functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination, as well as open combat in certain situations...
named Jin Wu (Hiroyuki Sanada) wantonly kills samurai
Samurai
is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...
and other government officials, leaving his clan to face the blame. When they start hunting him down, Jin Wu and his wife Akane sail to China both to escape their wrathful kinsmen, and for Jin Wu to complete revenge by finding the last man he holds responsible about for his father's death.
That man, Fukuda, leads a peaceful life as a mirror maker under the name of Uncle Foo. He has a young protégée, however: Jay (Conan Lee), a smug martial artist who constantly tries to prove himself by taking up every opportunity to fight. Jay also constantly teases his lecherous servant Chee (Tai Bo) and takes few things very seriously. However, as he sees his surrogate father attacked, Jay immediately rushes to his aid, but during several clashes he has to find out that he and the ninja are evenly matched.
Eventually, it is revealed that Jin Wu’s father was not killed by his clan members; he had died as a hero in a rebellion instead. Ashamed of his own cowardice in escaping to China years before following that attempted uprising, Foo makes peace with Jin. But before their final encounter, Foo took poison to restore his honor by his own death
Seppuku
is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku was originally reserved only for samurai. Part of the samurai bushido honor code, seppuku was either used voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies , or as a form of capital punishment...
, and he asks Jin to kill him in order to spare him the last agony, which promptly leads to a misunderstanding between Jay and Jin. The two battle each other to the top of Jay’s family temple and finally settle their differences just in time to face a spiritual boxer (Hwang Jang Lee), whose son Jay had been insulted in the course of the movie. The film ends with Jay and Jin killing the Sorcerer, with some unwitting assistance from Akane and Chee. The latter promptly tempts fate by claiming the better part of the credit for this victory, prompting Jin and Jay to teach him a lesson ...
Cast
- Conan LeeConan LeeConan Lee Yuen-Ba 李元霸 born Lloyd Hutchinson, is an Asian-American film actor and martial artist.-Biography:Born in Hong Kong but growing up in Queens, New York as Lloyd Hutchinson he was trained in his fathers self defense, he is best known for his roles in cult kung fu/ninja hybrid favorite "Ninja...
– Jay - Hiroyuki SanadaHiroyuki Sanadais a Japanese actor.-Life and career:Sanada was born in Tokyo. Originally aiming to be an action star, starting with shorinji kempo, he eventually took up Kyokushin kaikan Sanada began training at age 11 with actor and martial arts star Sonny Chiba's Japan Action Club where he developed good...
– Jin Wu - Hwang Jang LeeHwang Jang LeeHwang Jang Lee is a Korean martial artist and actor. Hwang is perhaps best known as Sheng Kuan in 1978 film Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Wong Chin in 1981 film Hitman in the Hand of Buddha. Variations of his name are often written as Wong Cheng Lee or Wong Cheng Li, in their Cantonese-Chinese...
– The Magician - Kwan Yung Moon – Sanchiro
- Tai Bo – Chee
- Hiroshi Tanaka
- Ma Chin Ku
- Tien Feng
- Kaname Tsushima
- Wu Jiaxing
- Chen Chin Hai
- Cheung Chung Kwai
- Chin Lung
- Ho Hing Nam
- Alan Lee Hoi Hing
- Ng See-yuenNg See-YuenNg See-yuen, born 1944 in Shanghai is a Chinese director of independent film companies in Hong Kong. He has worked in the Hong Kong film industry since 1970, particularly in Hong Kong action cinema, with roles including film director, producer and screenwriter.Ng is the chairman of the Federation...
- Peng Kang
- Wang Yao
- Wei Ping-aoPaul Wei Ping-AoWei Ping-Ao was a Hong Kong actor who started his career in Shaw Brothers. He was also notable of playing cunning interpreters in Bruce Lee's film, Fist of Fury and Way of the Dragon, in which he dubbed his own voice. He suffered from jaundice in his later years. Wei died in 1989.-External links:*...
– Doctor in Clinic - Yukio Someno – Monk
DVD release
On March 25, 2002, DVD was released in Hong Kong LegendsHong Kong Legends
Hong Kong Legends was a United Kingdom DVD distribution company, based in Hertfordshire and operating from the UK and Australia between 1999 and 2007...
at Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
in Region 2
DVD region code
DVD region codes are a digital-rights management technique designed to allow film distributors to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region...
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External links
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084267/