| rdfs:comment | - The film is a fictionalised account of an episode in the childhood of the Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung and his father Wong Kei-ying, and their encounter with the "Iron Monkey".
- Iron Monkey is 1993 martial arts film starring Yu Rongguang and Donnie Yen. The premise can be summed up in four words: Robin Hood. In China. The story is rather unremarkable; a doctor, Yang Tianchun, who is also a master martial artist, runs the only clinic in town where he overcharges rich patients and offers free care to the poor, by day. By night, he dons the Iron Monkey costume and goes around beating up corrupt monks and stealing money from the greedy politicians. Hero to the poor, menace to the rich. After this, there's a change of Big Bad, a Badass team-up and some real crazy shit.
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| abstract | - The film is a fictionalised account of an episode in the childhood of the Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung and his father Wong Kei-ying, and their encounter with the "Iron Monkey".
- Iron Monkey is 1993 martial arts film starring Yu Rongguang and Donnie Yen. The premise can be summed up in four words: Robin Hood. In China. The story is rather unremarkable; a doctor, Yang Tianchun, who is also a master martial artist, runs the only clinic in town where he overcharges rich patients and offers free care to the poor, by day. By night, he dons the Iron Monkey costume and goes around beating up corrupt monks and stealing money from the greedy politicians. Hero to the poor, menace to the rich. So, while Yang is busy patching up the guards he was beating the crap out of last night and making polite conversation with the man obsessed with catching him, a new doctor, Wong Kei-ying, arrives in town and is the victim of an attempted mugging. However, he TOO is a master martial artist and promptly hands the muggers' asses to them. Unfortunately, guards see this and assume Wong is the monkey, so they arrest him. At his trial, however, the REAL monkey shows up and wreaks havoc, and Wong fights with him, managing to stalemate. So, instead, the government hires Wong to take down the monkey. As added incentive, they take his son hostage and give him one week to do it. (His son, by the way, is a young boy named Wong Fei-hung. It's implied that the Iron Monkey inspired the real-life folk hero.) After this, there's a change of Big Bad, a Badass team-up and some real crazy shit.
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