Iron Monkey (1993)

1993 film by Yuen Woo-ping

Released

1993

Country

Hong Kong

Language

Cantonese

Genre

Martial arts film

Director

Yuen Woo-ping

Screenplay

Tsui Hark

Producer

Tsui Hark

Music

Richard Yuen Cheuk-Fan

Cinematography

Arthur Wong

Starring

Donnie Yen, Yu Rongguang, Angie Tsang, James Wong, Yen Shi-Kwan

Running time

85 minutes

Production company

Orange Sky Golden Harvest

Distributor

Netflix

Set in

Qing dynasty

Iron Monkey is a 1993 Hong Kong martial arts film written and produced by Tsui Hark and directed by Yuen Woo-ping, starring Donnie Yen, Yu Rongguang, Jean Wang, Angie Tsang and Yuen Shun-yi. It is not related to the 1977 Hong Kong film of the same title.

The film is a fictionalised account of an episode in the childhood of the Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung and his father Wong Kei-ying, and their encounter with the "Iron Monkey". In 1996, a separate film titled Iron Monkey 2 was released, but it is unrelated to the 1993 film.

More films directed by Yuen Woo-ping

• Snake in the Eagle's Shadow 1978
• Drunken Master 1978
• Dance of the Drunk Mantis 1979
• Magnificent Butcher 1979
• Dreadnaught 1981
• The Miracle Fighters 1982
• Legend of a Fighter 1982
• Shaolin Drunkard 1983
• Drunken Tai Chi 1984
• Mismatched Couples 1985
• Tiger Cage 1988
• In the Line of Duty 4: Witness 1989
• Tiger Cage 2 1990
• Heroes Among Heroes 1993
• Wing Chun 1994
• Fire Dragon 1994
• Tai Chi Master 1996
• Iron Monkey 2 1996
• House of Fury 2005
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny 2016

Series

• Followed by: Iron Monkey 2

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• TMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q2138296 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.