The Maggie Cheung Wuxia Festival With Flying Dagger 神經刀與飛天貓, Green Snake 青蛇 & The New Dragon Gate Inn T 新龍門客棧 with Trailers

1993 · KonCatIII

New Dragon Gate Inn ( 新龍門客棧 ), also known as Dragon Inn in North America, is a 1992 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Raymond Lee and produced by Tsui Hark , starring Maggie Cheung , Brigitte Lin , Tony Leung , and Donnie Yen . A remake of Dragon Gate Inn (1967), New Dragon Gate Inn was shot as a standard wuxia action thriller, with fast-paced action including martial arts, swordfighting and black comedy set in 15th-century China. Synopsis The film is set in 15th-century China during the Ming dynasty . Cao Shaoqin, the powerful eunuch who controls the spy agency Eastern Depot , has gotten rid of his political rival Yang Yuxuan, the war minister . Yang's daughter, Yuying, has been sent into exile in a remote desert region in northwest China . Cao intends to use Yuying as bait to lure her father's loyal followers into a trap and eliminate all of them. Zhou Huai'an, one of Yang's former subordinates, has asked his lover, the swordswoman Qiu Moyan, to help him save Yuying and meet him at Dragon Gate Inn. Unknown to them, Cao has sent three of his best fighters to kill them. Jin Xiangyu, the inn's owner, has been luring unsuspecting guests to stay in the inn to rob and kill them under the guise of running a legitimate business. She has a crush on Zhou, who already loves Qiu. When Zhou is cornered by Cao's men at the inn, he pretends to agree to marry Jin to trick her into revealing the location of a secret tunnel that would allow them to escape the inn, after which he would leave with Qiu on the night of the supposed wedding. Just then, Cao shows up at the inn with his forces. Zhou, Qiu and Jin have no choice but to put aside their differences for the time being and work together to defeat and kill Cao in order to save Yuying. Qiu dies of her wounds during the battle, while Jin burns down the inn and accompanies Zhou as he rides into the distance. Cast Maggie Cheung as Jin Xiangyu Brigitte Lin as Qiu Moyan Tony Leung as Zhou Huai'an Donnie Yen as Cao Shaoqin Lau Shun as Jia Ting Yuen Cheung-yan as Tiezhu Hung Yan-yan as Cao Tian Yen Shi-kwan as He Hu Lawrence Ng as Lu Xiaochuan Wang Tongchuan as Diao Buyu Yuen Bun as Xiaoheizi Elvis Tsui as the Yanmen Pass general Chan Chi-fai as Yimohong Yumiko Cheng as Yang Yuying Themes New Dragon Gate Inn was one of the films in which Brigitte Lin portrayed a woman in disguise as a man, in addition to Peking Opera Blues , Swordsman II , Royal Tramp II , Handsome Siblings , and Ashes of Time . Flying Dagger ( Chinese : 神經刀與飛天貓 ; lit. 'Nervous Knife and Apsara Flying Cat') is a 1993 wuxia comedy film directed by Kevin Chu and written and produced by Wong Jing . The film features a large cast of stars and parodies numerous Hong Kong films. Plot The Hon [Dagger] Brothers, Chung and Lam, who are in fact uncle and nephew, are rival bounty hunters to the Fung [Bewitchment] Sisters, and take glee in thwarting each other because Chung refused to marry Lady Fung. Fung Ling and Lam are also in love, but do not acknowledge it. Emperor Tsao hires the Hons to capture the Nine-Tails Fox, whom he claims has made a major robbery of his household, including the rape and murder of his daughter and the murder of 41 servants. The Hons are distracted when they find the Fungs captured by Never Die and his brothers, who in spite of decapitation and loss of a hand, proceed to chase the Hons (the severed hand grabbing at one of them) to the lair of Nine-Tails Fox, who has recently caused his wife, the apsara known as Flying Cat to walk out on him. The group discovers that Never Die is allergic to glib talk, and begin speaking to each other glibly. Chung, too embarrassed to speak to Lady Fung in that way, instead speak to Nine-Tails Fox, the two pulling off each other's shirts, and trap Never Die, where he soon dissolves. The four bounty hunters and Never Die's hand escort Nine-Tails Fox away. Flying Cat returns to find drawn images of what has gone on previously, including what she interprets as her husband's homosexual behavior, and chastises the old man who sends the drawings out through a slot for not intervening, which he says is not his place. Nine-Tails Fox, who proudly admits to being a thief but insists he never hurts anyone, escapes from the bounty hunters to the inn of Pang Tin-hong, where he becomes involved with numerous courtesans. The bounty hunters follow him, but not before Flying Cat catches up with him. Still other bounty hunters, including the burly Western Ace, a gay man who sings 1980s American pop tunes, and a transsexual who delivers poisoned kisses, arrive at the inn. Because the Hons and Fungs pay well and are supported by the police, Pang sides with them against the new bounty hunters, claiming that he and his wife are Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui . The transsexual kisses Chung, causing him to turn green and infect him with poison. After the other bounty hunters are defeated, Pang sends Lam and Ling outside, insisting that they are under eighteen, although both claim to be eig