Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery

Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery (1928)

火燒紅蓮寺

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.

Date of release
1928-05-12
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Action, Drama
Director
Shichuan Zhang

Casting

Interesting facts

The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (火燒紅蓮寺) is a lost Chinese silent film serial directed by Zhang Shichuan, widely considered to be the founding father of Chinese cinema. The film is adapted from the novel The Tale of the Extraordinary Swordsman.

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