Shaolin DVD 2011 新少林寺 / Directed by Benny Chan / Starring: Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse, Jackie Chan, Fan Bingbing

UPC 4897033391276

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN HONG KONG

AUDIO: Cantonese 5.1, Mandarin 5.1

SUBTITLES: English, Chinese Simplified

TOTAL RUNTIME: 131 MINUTES

English Summary:

Shaolin (also known as The New Shaolin Temple) is a 2011 martial arts film produced and directed by Benny Chan, starring Andy Lau and Nicholas Tse with a special appearance by Jackie Chan.

In Dengfeng, Henan during the warlord era of early Republican China, a warlord named Hou Jie (Andy Lau) defeats a rival, Huo Long, and seizes control of Dengfeng. Huo Long flees to Shaolin Temple to hide, but Hou Jie appears and shoots him after tricking him out of his treasure map. Hou Jie ridicules the Shaolin monks before leaving.

Feeling that his sworn brother, Song Hu, is taking advantage of him, Hou sets a trap for Song in a restaurant under the guise of agreeing to his daughter's engagement to Song's son. Meanwhile, Hou's deputy, Cao Man, ambitious and feeling used by Hou, has decided to betray him. During the dinner, Song states his intention to retire and cede everything to Hou but is then secretly warned Hou means to kill him. In rage and embarrassment, Hou fatally wounds Song. Both families are then attacked by Cao's assassins. Despite being shot by Hou, Song saves him with a warning, allowing him to escape, and then dies. While fleeing, Hou's wife and daughter are separated. Hou's wife is rescued by some passing-by Shaolin monks who were stealing rice from the military granary to help refugees living at the temple. Hou escapes with his daughter, but she is severely injured by the assassins' carriage. After a chase by the assassin carriages, Hou and his daughter fall off a cliff. In desperation, he brings her to Shaolin, begging the monks to save her life. Their efforts were in vain however, and she dies of her injuries. Hou's wife blames him for the death of their daughter and leaves him. Hou attacks the monks in anger but is quickly subdued.

Chinese Summary:

1920年代，中国处于军阀割据和混战的乱世，一些外国势力为了获取利益也支持着不同的军阀势力。地处河南嵩山的少林寺秉持我佛慈悲的信念，不仅坚持以善心去处理和火化那些战火中死去的士兵的尸体，还每天接济聚集在寺前的众多难民。

一天，一个名叫霍龙（陳之輝飾）的军阀只身逃亡到少林寺求僧人救他。以侯傑（劉德華飾）和曹蛮（謝霆鋒飾）为首的另一派军阀追他到此。霍龙对侯傑交出埋藏金子的地点恳求侯能饶他一命，不过霍还是被侯傑开枪打死。侯走之前还在掉在地上的横匾上写下“不外如是”四字以羞辱少林寺，因此他与少林结下一怨。

回到登封县城后，在凯旋的路上侯的兄弟宋虎将军（師小紅飾）来迎接他。宋说想让侯杰的女儿许配给他的儿子以让两家结成亲家。后来经过考虑后侯杰答应了这门亲事，不过他的真正目的是要在定亲仪式上演一齣鸿门宴：让曹蛮安排几十名杀手埋伏在那里以除掉宋。他之所以这样做是因为他猜疑宋想要独吞他从霍龙手中得到的金子而以后会对他有所不利。虽然妻子颜夕（范冰冰飾）顾及宋大哥与他之间的交情反对他这样做，但是侯杰以宋虎不死他就睡不着的理由来反驳她。

作为侯想得到更多洋枪洋炮的交换条件，洋人提出要在侯的地盘修建铁路。这个请求得到侯杰的断然拒绝，而想为洋人说情的曹蛮还因此受到了侯杰的严重警告，原因是他认为洋人修铁路是假，霸占土地才是真的。

Cast / 演员表

• Andy Lau as Hou Jie, a warlord
• Nicholas Tse as Cao Man, Hou Jie's second-in-command
• Jackie Chan as Wudao, the Shaolin cook monk
• Fan Bingbing as Yan Xi (a.k.a. Madam Hou), Hou Jie's wife
• Wu Jing as Jingneng, Hou Jie's oldest senior
• Xing Yu as Jingkong, Hou Jie's second senior
• Yu Shaoqun as Jinghai, Hou Jie's third senior and a friend of Jingkong
• Yu Hai as the Shaolin abbot
• Michelle Bai as Singer
• Shimada Runa as Hou Shengnan, Hou Jie's daughter
• Shi Xiaohong as Song Hu, Hou Jie's sworn brother
• Liang Jingke as Song Hu's wife
• Hung Yan-yan as Suoxiangtu, a martial arts expert working for Cao Man
• Chen Zhihui as Huo Long, a rival warlord