Synopsis
Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (狄仁杰之神都龙王, 2013) is a Chinese fantasy action-adventure from director Tsui Hark that you can watch online on iFILM. A prequel to Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, the film stars Mark Chao as a young Dee Renjie arriving in the Tang Dynasty capital for the first time, alongside Angela Baby and Carina Lau. At 134 minutes, it's built for spectacle — Tsui Hark has been engineering this kind of large-scale Hong Kong genre filmmaking since Once Upon a Time in China.
Fresh off the road and barely in the door at the Supreme Court, Dee is immediately pulled into a case that has the whole city spooked: a sea monster is attacking the imperial waterways after dark. Empress Wu assigns the fearsome detective Yuchi to lead the investigation, and Dee has to push his way into it anyway. Poison, secret societies and underwater siege machinery all factor in before the answers surface. For fans of wuxia cinema and elaborate Tang-era set pieces, this one lands its hits. Stream Young Detective Dee (2013) online on iFILM.
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