Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery

1928
7.4| 1h26m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 12 May 1928 Released
Producted By: Star Film Company
Country: China
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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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.

Genre

Drama, Action

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Director

Shichuan Zhang

Production Companies

Star Film Company

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Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery Audience Reviews

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
zzmale Although it was not the first Chinese movie made, it was a first major success and as the result of its success, the Chinese movies made around that time were very similar to it: most of them were martial arts flicks.Another importance of this film in the early era of Chinese movie industry was that it pioneered the large scale adoption of movie theaters for the general public which included the middle and lower classes.