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Ninja in the Dragon’s Den Directed by Corey Yuen Produced by Ng See-yuen Written by Corey Yuen
Ng See-yuenStarring Conan Lee
Hiroyuki Sanada
Hwang Jang Lee
Kwan Yung Moon
Tai Bo
Wei Ping-ao
Ng See-yuenCinematography Allan Poon Distributed by Season Film Corporation Release date(s) 24 June 1982 Running time 95 min. Country Hong Kong Language Cantonese Ninja in the Dragon's Den (Chinese: 龍之忍者) is a 1982 Hong Kong martial arts film written and directed by Corey Yuen made his directorial debut, and starring Conan Lee, Hiroyuki Sanada and Hwang Jang Lee.
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Plot
In Japan of the Tokugawa Ieyasu period, a young ninja named Jin Wu (Hiroyuki Sanada) wantonly kills samurai and other government officials, leaving his clan to face the blame. When they start hunting him down, Jin Wu and his wife Akane sail to China both to escape their wrathful kinsmen, and for Jin Wu to complete revenge by finding the last man he holds responsible about for his father's death.
That man, Fukuda, leads a peaceful life as a mirror maker under the name of Uncle Foo. He has a young protégée, however: Jay (Conan Lee), a smug martial artist who constantly tries to prove himself by taking up every opportunity to fight. Jay also constantly teases his lecherous servant Chee (Tai Bo) and takes few things very seriously. However, as he sees his surrogate father attacked, Jay immediately rushes to his aid, but during several clashes he has to find out that he and the ninja are evenly matched.
Eventually, it is revealed that Jin Wu’s father was not killed by his clan members; he had died as a hero in a rebellion instead. Ashamed of his own cowardice in escaping to China years before following that attempted uprising, Foo makes peace with Jin. But before their final encounter, Foo took poison to restore his honor by his own death, and he asks Jin to kill him in order to spare him the last agony, which promptly leads to a misunderstanding between Jay and Jin. The two battle each other to the top of Jay’s family temple and finally settle their differences just in time to face a spiritual boxer (Hwang Jang Lee), whose son Jay had been insulted in the course of the movie. The film ends with Jay and Jin killing the Sorcerer, with some unwitting assistance from Akane and Chee. The latter promptly tempts fate by claiming the better part of the credit for this victory, prompting Jin and Jay to teach him a lesson ...
Cast
- Conan Lee – Jay
- Hiroyuki Sanada – Jin Wu
- Hwang Jang Lee – The Magician
- Kwan Yung Moon – Sanchiro
- Tai Bo – Chee
- Hiroshi Tanaka
- Ma Chin Ku
- Tien Feng
- Kaname Tsushima
- Wu Jiaxing
- Chen Chin Hai
- Cheung Chung Kwai
- Chin Lung
- Ho Hing Nam
- Alan Lee Hoi Hing
- Ng See-yuen
- Peng Kang
- Wang Yao
- Wei Ping-ao – Doctor in Clinic
- Yukio Someno – Monk
See also
DVD release
On March 25, 2002, DVD was released in Hong Kong Legends at Europe in Region 2.
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