The Buddhism Palm Strikes Back | |
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Also known as | Yu Loi San Cheung Zoi Zin Kong Woo |
Genre | Wuxia Comedy |
Written by | Wong Yuk-long (original story) Wong Kwok-fai Tong Kin-ping |
Directed by | Wong Wai-ming Yuen Wai-yi Lee Shu-fun |
Starring | Eddie Kwan Ada Choi Elvina Kong Johnny Ngan Gordon Liu Yeung Tak-see Jimmy Au |
Opening theme | Yu Loi San Cheung (如來神掌) performed by Jacky Cheung |
Ending theme | Lau Chu Chau Sek (留住秋色) performed by Jacky Cheung and Vivian Chow |
Composer | Joseph Koo |
Country of origin | Hong Kong |
Original language | Cantonese |
No. of episodes | 20 |
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Producer | Yau Ka-hung |
Production location | Hong Kong |
Editor | Wong Kwok-fai |
Running time | 45 minutes per episode |
Production company | TVB |
Release | |
Original network | TVB Jade |
Original release | 14 June – 9 July 1993 |
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Traditional Chinese | 如來神掌再戰江湖 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 如来神掌再战江湖 | ||||||||||
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The Buddhism Palm Strikes Back is a Hong Kong wuxia comedy television series based on Wong Yuk-long's manhua series Buddha's Palm. The series was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in 1993.
The legendary Buddha's Palm is the most powerful skill in the kong-woo (martial artists' community) that a fighter can learn. A long time ago, Lung Kim-fei used the skill to defeat Tin Cam-kiuk, and had since retired from the kong-woo. Lung laid down a family rule, forbidding his descendants from learning the skill, and hid the Buddha's Palm manual, in order to prevent them from misusing it.
70 years later, a mysterious red-haired martial artist known as "For-wun Tse-san" (literally: Fire Cloud Evil Deity) appears and goes on a rampage to kill several people before challenging the five major martial arts schools to a fight. The five schools misbelieve that Lung Kim-sang, a descendant of Lung Kim-fei, is responsible for the killings and attack him. In fact, Lung Kim-sang does not know martial arts and relies on his wit and intelligence to survive. When For-wun Tse-san learns that Lung Kim-sang is a descendant of Lung Kim-fei, he starts harassing Lung Kim-sang to force him to hand over the Buddha's Palm manual.
Lung Kim-sang meets Kung-suen Ling-fung, a maiden from the Omei School, and she falls in love with him and follows him on his adventures. At one point, Kung-suen gives up her virginity to save Lung's life after he is poisoned by For-wun Tse-san. Lung loses his memory after regaining consciousness and meets Fung Ching-ching and falls in love with her. However, when he remembers everything, he finds himself in a complicated love triangle.
Throughout his adventures, Lung Kim-sang learns martial arts from extraordinary people, such as Tung-to Cheung-lei. Eventually, he finds the Buddha's Palm manual in the old Lung family residence and masters the skill, becoming an invincible fighter. Lung defeats For-wun Tse-san, putting an end to the latter's evil plan. However, he is unaware that Tin Heung, a descendant of Tin Cam-kiuk, has been secretly plotting to kill him to avenge her ancestor. Lung and Tin have a final showdown and Lung emerges victorious eventually, restoring peace and becoming a respected hero in the kong-woo.
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