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Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery (1928)

NR | May 12, 1928 (CN) | Action, Drama | 01:26

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.

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Jie Tang
Chang Deqing
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Xianzhai Wang
Wang Qinghe
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Butterfly Wu
Red girl
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Peizhen Xia
Gan Lianzhu - Yang Jixin's wife
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Xiaoqiu Zheng
Gui Wu / Yang Jixin

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