Fong Saiyuk Chinese pinyin Fang Shi Yu , aka The Legend of Fong Saiyuk, or simply, The Legend is a 1993 Hong Kong action and comedy film directed by Corey Yuen starring Jet Li as Chinese folk hero Fong Saiyuk. The film won the Hong Kong Film Award and Golden Horse Award for best action choreography. The film received positive reviews praising Josephine Siaos acting and the action choreography.
Fongs mother, Miu Tsuifa, enters the contest in disguise as a man to help her son win back his lost pride. She defeats Siuwan by knocking her off the scaffold, but catches her as she falls and they land safely on the ground. After that intimate moment together, Siuwan becomes romantically attracted to Miu without knowing that Miu is actually a woman in disguise. Lui then forces Miu to marry his daughter. To save his mother from embarrassment, Fong marries Tingting on behalf of his brother his mother in disguise as a man, and is confined in his fatherinlaws house. He is unaware that his bride is actually his love interest and they fight in the dark. They discover each others identities eventually.Miu manages to persuade Lui to let her son return home. Just then, Fongs father, Fong Tak, returns home from a trip. Fong discovers that his father is a member of the Red Flower Society, an underground resistance movement that aims to overthrow the ruling Manchuled Qing 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 societys members, but he refuses. Just then, Fong Saiyuk and his mother show up, and Fong fights with the Governor and holds him off until his parents have escaped. ........
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