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Prince of the Sun
Directed by
  • Wellson Chin
  • Shan Hua
Screenplay by
  • Chun-Wai Lau
  • Abe Kwong
Produced byPeggy Cheung
Starring
CinematographyYiu Chung Cheng
Edited byWelson Chin
Music byWon Bong
Production
companies
Golden Flare Films Company, Ltd.
Distributed byFirst Distributors
Release date
  • 24 September 1990 (1990-09-24)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese

Prince of the Sun (Chinese: 太陽之子; Cantonese Yale: Tai yang zhi zi) also known as Miss Shaolin is a 1990 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Wellson Chin.[1]

The film stars Cynthia Rothrock as a monk sent to protect the reincarnation of the Little Living Buddha (Pak Lam Cheng), but centers mostly on the hijinks of Wan May-Ngor (Sheila Chan), a degenerate gambler and abusive schoolteacher, and Tiger (Conan Lee), a thief from mainland China who entered Hong Kong illegally, who are thrown together to protect/exploit the Little Living Buddha.

The film's fight scenes are well choreographed and brutal, and its broad humor is often in poor taste.[2]

Plot

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Buddhist monk Khenlun (Ching-Ying Lam) is summoned by his dying master. The master tells him he will be reincarnated into a child whom Khenlun must protect from evil, then self-immolates, leaving behind a stone bead. Rival monk Khentse (Shun Lau) swoops in and snatches the stone bead and fights Khenlun, driving him from the monastery.

Five years later, Tiger (Conan Lee) and Fu (Tai-Bo) are sneaking into Hong Kong from mainland China to get rich stealing. They cross paths with Khenlun and the Little Living Buddha (Pak Lam Cheng), pursued by three of Khentse's lamas. Khenlun is killed, but the Little Living Buddha hides in a freight car where he meets Tiger hiding from guards.

The spirit of Khenlun tells his student Bencheuk (Cynthia Rothrock) to find and protect the Living Buddha, and she fights her way out of the monastery. Khentse sends four of his lamas after her.

Approaching Hong Kong, Tiger leaps from the train car with the Little Buddha, but not before knocking Fu from the train, presumably killing him. They run from the police, find Fu's cousin Wan May-Ngor's (Sheila Chan) apartment and meet her unfriendly neighbors. The Little Buddha finds May teaching at an elementary school, where the principal chases off two loan sharks after her.

May threatens the Little Buddha and is fired from her job for swearing and hitting the schoolchildren. At her apartment, she is furious to find Tiger and the Little Living Buddha staying there, but lets them stay when they fight off her debt collectors. In the fight, May gets knocked out a window.

In the night, the Little Buddha is visited by ghosts chasing the spirit of a suicide victim (Hung Wong), whom he helps to reincarnate using powers the spirit of Khenlun granted him by appearing through the TV. May interrupts and insults Khenlun, who threatens her with a durian.

The next day May gambles away her unemployment check while Tiger takes the Living Buddha with him to rob a bank. The bank is already being robbed, and they run into May, again pursued by loan sharks. Tiger is saved by the sudden appearance of Bencheuk. At home, May bandages the Little Buddha's arm, then argues with Tiger. In the fight, May gets knocked out a window.

The Little Buddha is re-visited by the ghosts who now threaten him, but Khenlun's spirit appears, banishes them to the TV, and teaches the Little Buddha more powers. May wants the Little Buddha to help her win at gambling, and she takes them to a playground to get him to help her. Two of the lamas see them on a carousel, and Bencheuk fights them off. May finds there is a $50,000 reward on the Little Buddha and she meets the lamas to make a deal with them. Instead, they beat her until she talks.

Bencheuk tests the Little Buddha, and the four lamas break into May's apartment to capture him. In the fight, May gets knocked out a window.

Bencheuk escapes with the Little Living Buddha, and the lamas chase her to a playground where they fight until the demonic Khentse appears and abducts the Little Living Buddha. Bencheuk takes May and Tiger back to the Tibetan monastery to rescue the Living Buddha. Bencheuk and Tiger fight the three lamas while May tries to let light into the cave to revive the Living Buddha.

Khentse defeats Bencheuk and the spirit of Khenlun but the Living Buddha uses his powers to defeat him. In the fight, Khentse is cast into the abyss.

Cast

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  • Conan Lee as Tiger (as Yuen-ba Lee)
  • Pak Lam Cheng as Little Living Buddha (as Siu Pak-lam)
  • Sheila Chan as Wan May-Ngor (as Suk-lan Chan)
  • Cynthia Rothrock as Bencheuk
  • Ching-Ying Lam as Khenlun (as Ching-ying Lam)
  • Shun Lau as Khentse
  • Fung Woo as Principal
  • Gabriel Wong as Wang San (as Yat-san Wong)
  • Jeffrey Falcon as Lama (as Kit-fu)
  • Tai-Bo as Fu
  • Jeong-il Choi (as Ching-yat Tsui)
  • Wellson Chin (as Sing-wai Chin)
  • Yuen-Kin Ting (as Yuen-kin Ting)
  • Si-Man Man as Teacher (as Si-man Man)
  • Yuen-Chi Fung as Loan shark (as Yuen-chi Fung)
  • James Au as Loan shark (as Shiu-hei Au)
  • Hung Wong as Ghost

Production

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The filmmakers spent the majority of their production time creating comedy scenarios for Conan Lee and Sheila Chan. When star Cynthia Rothrock was due to leave the country within a few days, the filmmakers shifted the production to filming scenes for her, including several action scenes.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Tai yang zhi zi". IMDb.
  2. ^ https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/cynthia-rothrocks-10-best-movies-ranked/ar-BB1mUxAJ
  3. ^ "Prince of the Sun (1990) - Trivia - IMDb". IMDb.
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Category:1990 films Category:1990 action comedy films Category:2000s Cantonese-language films Category:1990s Hong Kong films Category:1990s martial arts films

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