New Dragon Gate Inn (1992)
1992 film by Raymond Lee
- Released
- 1992
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Language
- Cantonese, Yue Chinese, Standard Chinese
- Genre
- Martial arts film
- Director
- Raymond Lee, Tsui Hark, Ching Siu-tung
- Screenplay
- Tsui Hark, Charcoal Tan
- Producer
- Tsui Hark
- Cinematography
- Arthur Wong
- Starring
- Tony Leung Ka-fai, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Donnie Yen, Yen Shi-Kwan, Elvis Tsui, Yuen Cheung-yan, Lawrence Ng
- Running time
- 88 minutes
- Production company
- Film Workshop
- Distributor
- Orange Sky Golden Harvest, Netflix
- Set in
- Ming dynasty
New Dragon Gate Inn (新龍門客棧), also known as Dragon Inn in North America, is a 1992 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Raymond Lee and produced by Tsui Hark, starring Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, and Donnie Yen. A remake of Dragon Gate Inn (1967), New Dragon Gate Inn was shot as a standard wuxia action thriller, with fast-paced action including martial arts, swordfighting and black comedy set in 15th-century China.
Both New Dragon Gate Inn and the original Dragon Gate Inn centre on the familiar wuxia motif of a corrupt Ming‑dynasty eunuch in power and a band of martial heroes striving to rescue the descendants of a loyal official. What distinguishes New Dragon Gate Inn is its incorporation of the innkeeper archetype Jin Xiangyu (金鑲玉), adapted from the proprietress Wan Jen-mi (萬人迷) in the 1973 wuxia film The Fate of Lee Khan. The remake weaves this character into the narrative and expands the story with a web of turbulent‑era passions, rivalries, and entanglements.
More films directed by Raymond Lee
- The Swordsman 1990
More films directed by Tsui Hark
- The Butterfly Murders 1979
- Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain 1983
- Righting Wrongs 1986
- The Master 1989
- The Swordsman 1990
- The Raid 1991
- Once Upon a Time in China 1991
- Once Upon a Time in China 1991
- Once Upon a Time in China II 1992
- Twin Dragons 1992
- Once Upon a Time in China III 1993
- Once Upon a Time in China V 1994
- Love in the Time of Twilight 1995
- Black Mask 2: City of Masks 2002
- Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame 2010
- Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 2011
- Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants 2025
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Facts from Wikidata Q1315888 (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.