Bulletproof Monk is a 2003 martial arts action/fantasy film starring Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott and Jaime King. The film was directed by Paul Hunter. It is loosely based on the comic book by Michael Avon Oeming.
The film was shot in Toronto, Ontario, and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
The storyline opens in Tibet in the year 1943, wherein one of its protagonists, a Tibetan monk, is informed that he has fulfilled the prophecies made of him, whe...
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Bulletproof Monk is a 2003 martial arts action/fantasy film starring Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott and Jaime King. The film was directed by Paul Hunter. It is loosely based on the comic book by Michael Avon Oeming.
The film was shot in Toronto, Ontario, and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
The storyline opens in Tibet in the year 1943, wherein one of its protagonists, a Tibetan monk, is informed that he has fulfilled the prophecies made of him, wherein he has fought an army of enemies while a flock of cranes circled overhead; fought for love at the palace of Jade; saved his brothers whom he did not know; and forsaken his name. He is then entrusted by his master with the protection of a Scroll which contains knowledge by which the reader becomes the most powerful of living things; a protection that will keep him youthful and immunize him to injury until, at the close of 60 years, he passes the knowledge to an heir. The master, who has formerly been the guardian of this Scroll, is killed...
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