Zhu Pengcheng

Story about one of five Tiger Generals Kingdom of Shu from Romance of Three Kingdom, Zhao Zilong who agrees to assist Liu Bei in his great mission to unite China.

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A thousand years ago, Li Muwan relied on the Pearl of Rebirth to become a dragon, but her husband Yan Lin was killed by a mysterious man. A thousand years later, Yan Chixia, a disciple of the Demon Rebellion Alliance, is the one who has committed the act of righteousness. He is the resurrected Yan Lin, who has lost the memory of his past life, but his love for Li Muwan remains unchanged.

Chen Cheng’s Taoist Master: Kylin is the quick fire sequel to Wu Yingxiang’s Taoist Master (released just a few months ago, already online), with Fan Siu Wong returning in the role of Zhang Taoling, the founder of the first organized form of Taoism, flanked by his disciple (Li Lubing, also returning). This time, Master Zhang arrives in a village near Mount Yun Jing, where Kylin, the legendary God of the Mountain, is rumored to prey on hunters and those foolhardy enough to venture into the mountain. While Taoist Master was on the higher end of Chinese direct-to-VOD films, this sequel is disappointingly average: it lacks the refreshing presence of Zhang Dong (who played a feisty huntress in the first film), it’s criminally low on fight scenes (one of the original’s strong suits), and the plot is the usual thudding supernatural set-up resolved with the censorship-placating hallucination card.