Once Upon a Time in China II

Director: Tsui Hark
Genre: Martial arts, Action/Adventure, World cinema, Comedy, Action, Action Comedy, Chinese Movies
Year: 1992
Country: Hong Kong, China
Language: Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, English Language, Standard Mandarin
Starring: Rosamund Kwan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, David Chiang, Hung Yan Yan, Jackie Chan, Paul Fonoroff, Max Mok Siu-Chung

Once Upon a Time in China II is a 1992 Hong Kong martial arts action film written and directed by Tsui Hark and starring Jet Li returning as Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung. It is the second film and first sequel in the Once Upon a Time in China film series. The Mandarin version of the iconic theme song A Man Should Better Himself (男兒當自強) was performed by Jackie Chan while the Cantonese version was sung by George Lam.

In 1895, during the late Qing Dynasty, Wong Fei-hung travels by train to Canton to attend a seminar on Western and traditional Chinese medicine. He is accompanied by his romantic interest 13th Aunt and student Leung Foon. He gives a lecture on the benefits of acupuncture while a fellow Chinese doctor helps him translate for the predominantly foreign audience.

The seminar is disrupted by the fanatical White Lotus Society, an extreme nationalist cult led by the sinister and seemingly-invincible Priest Kung. The sect aims to drive all foreigners out of Canton and has been killing Westerners and destroying everything regarded alien to Chinese culture. Wong later learns that the translator Sun Wen is actually the leader of a group of pro-democratic rebels aiming to topple

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