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The Magic Crane (1993)
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Original name: 新仙鶴神針
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
On his way to a congress of kung fu masters, an initiate falls from a high cliff, only to be rescued by lovely Tien Lam (Anita Mui), who rides a huge (and sorry-looking) crane. The rest of the movie features a battle between warring martial arts factions, an equally fierce rivalry between the two daughters of the Crane Master, the accidental empowerment of an unprincipled master after having eaten half of a secret scroll, a battle with an immense tortoise whose spleeny vapors save a group of poisoned swordsmen, lots of great aerial fights against nearly invincible villains, and the usual blood spurting from assorted mouths.
Style:
exciting, stylized, semi serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, magic, turtle, bat, superhero, heroes, supernatural, battles, supernatural ability, escapades, rivalry, monster, kung fu, violence, cannibalism, giant animal, giant bird, gore, gory, danger, imaginary, adventure
Place:
asia, hong kong
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Duration: 104 min.
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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