Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery

Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery
1928
⏱️ 86 min
📅 Released
🌐 ZH
ActionDrama
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.

Crew

Director
Shichuan Zhang
Writer
Zheng Zhengqiu, Shichuan Zhang

Production

Star Film Company, Mingxing Film Company

Keywords

martial artsbased on novel or booksilent filmmovie seriallost film