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Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery

1928 • 1h26m Action, Drama

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After being defeated in a fight by a local gang, local official Lu Fengyang sends his weak and sickly son Lu Xiaoqing to study with a master of the Kunlun school of martial arts. Recovered and strong, he comes upon the Red Lotus Temple, and puts up there for the night. Unable to sleep, he begins looking around the palatial temple, and discovers a room decorated with many images of Buddhist demons, and an altar to worship them... Purposely destroyed serial film whose 19 full length chapters (averaging 86 minutes each) originally ran 27 hours in length.

Details

Director

Shichuan Zhang

Screenplay

Zheng Zhengqiu

Shichuan Zhang

Cast

Xiaoqiu Zheng

Peizhen Xia

Jie Tang

Release date

5/12/1928

Status

Released

Origin country

CN