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Genre: | Costume drama, martial arts | ||||||||||||
Screenplay: | Cheung Wah-piu | ||||||||||||
Director: | Tsui Siu-ming | ||||||||||||
Starring: | Wong Yuen-sun Bruce Leung Michelle Yim Bonnie Ngai | ||||||||||||
Opentheme: | "The Great Wall Never Falls" (Chinese: 萬里長城永不倒) performed by Johnny Yip | ||||||||||||
Composer: | Michael Lai | ||||||||||||
Country: | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||
Language: | Cantonese | ||||||||||||
Num Episodes: | 20 | ||||||||||||
Producer: | Tsui Siu-ming | ||||||||||||
Location: | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||
Runtime: | 45 minutes per episode | ||||||||||||
Channel: | RTV |
The Legendary Fok is a Hong Kong television series loosely based on the life of the Chinese martial artist Huo Yuanjia (Cantonese: Fok Yuen-gap). It includes a subplot based on the story of Chen Zhen (Cantonese: Chan Zan), a fictional student of Huo Yuanjia and the protagonist of the 1972 film Fist of Fury. The series was first broadcast in 1981 on RTV (now ATV) in Hong Kong.
Note: Some of the characters' names are in Cantonese romanisation.
A remake of the series, Huo Yuanjia (The Legendary Fok 2008), was released in 2008. It was directed by Kuk Kwok-leung and starred Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan, Zhou Muyin, Bryan Leung, Ding Li and Qu Yue.
The opening theme song "The Great Wall Never Falls", performed by Johnny Yip, was reused as the opening theme song of Huo Yuanjia (2008) and Huo Yuanjia (2001). However, in Huo Yuanjia (2001), the song was sung in Mandarin instead of Cantonese and was not sung by Yip.