Iron Monkey is a 1993 Hong Kong martial arts film written and produced by Tsui Hark and directed by martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping, and starring Donnie Yen and Yu Rongguang. It was a remake of the 1977 film of the same name.
The film is a fictionalized account of an episode in the childhood of Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung and his father Wong Kei-ying (Donnie Yen), and their encounter with the "Iron Monkey" (Yu Rongguang). In 1995, a separate film entitled Iron Monkey 2 was released. The film also starred actor Donnie Yen and Billy Chow. Yen portrayed the "Iron Monkey" in the film, but it was not a sequel to the 1993 film.
The plot centers on a masked pugilist known as "Iron Monkey". Iron Monkey is actually the alter ego of a Chinese physician named Yang Tianchun. In the day, Yang runs his clinic and provides free medical treatment for the poor, which he subsidizes by charging his rich patients. At night, he dresses in black and travels around town to rob the rich and help the poor. Once, he breaks into the governor's residence and makes off with a hoard of gold. The guards and four Shaolin monks are unable to stop him. The governor orders the chief constable, Fox, to
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