A Story of Lou Po-Wen (朱洪武) 53 years old

Tsu Hong Wu is a highly fictionalized fantasy retelling of the early years of Zhu Yuanzhang’s life that was obviously geared toward younger audiences. The tale actually begins in Heaven, where the various gods are busy paving the way for a new emperor. The very basic facts of Zhu Yuanzhang’s life are ostensibly correct, but it takes a rather unexpected turn into traditional giant monster territory, with a Taoist priest summoning a gigantic red-haired ogre (amusingly referred to as ‘superman’ in the subtitles) to destroy our heroes, who are in turn rescued when a golden dragon (the animal manifestation of one of the deities from earlier in the film) rises from the ocean to do battle with said ogre

Credits

A Story of Lou Po-Wen Cast

Name Character
Chiang Tao He was 28, now 82 years old
Chu Jing She was 24, now 77 years old
Ting Chung
Tsai Hung He was 28, now 81 years old
Su Chen-Ping

A Story of Lou Po-Wen Crew

Name Department
Lam Yee Hung as Assistant Director. Directing
A Story of Lou Po-Wen poster
A Story of Lou Po-Wen (53 years)

  • Release day: Thursday, February 18, 1971
  • Runtime: 111 minutes