Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery
Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery
| 12 May 1928 (USA)
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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...

Reviews
VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
zzmale Although it was not the first Chinese movie made, it was a first major success and as the result of its success, the Chinese movies made around that time were very similar to it: most of them were martial arts flicks.Another importance of this film in the early era of Chinese movie industry was that it pioneered the large scale adoption of movie theaters for the general public which included the middle and lower classes.