Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery

Name: Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery
Genre: Action, Drama
Released: 1928-05-12
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Xiaoqiu Zheng, Peizhen Xia, Jie Tang, Xianzhai Wang, Butterfly Wu

火燒紅蓮寺

8.0 (1)1928-05-121h 26m

ActionDrama

Overview

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.