''A Kid from Tibet'' () is a 1991 Hong Kong

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starring and directed by

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, who also produced. The film was written by Barry Wong, Sam Chi-leung, and Chan Kam-cheong. The film features two more former members of the Seven Little Fortunes:

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as an evil sorcerer and a

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from

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. ''A Kid From Tibet'' is Yuen's only credit as director. It was filmed in

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and partly on location in

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Plot

When the evil "Black Section of

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" had tried to invade Tibet years ago, the Tibetan monks used a powerful magical item, the "Babu Gold Bottle" to expel them. The Tibetan master (

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) has the bottle's cap and wishes to reunite it with the bottle as the Black Section are stirring once more. He sends a young monk, Wong La (

) to

to recover the sacred bottle, which is in the possession of a crippled lawyer. Wong meets and protects a woman, Chiu Seng-Neng (

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) who is acting as the agent for the lawyer, and the Black Section fight to gain the magical bottle for themselves. The leader of the Black Section (

) learns of the intended hand-over, and seeks to get the Babu Gold Bottle for himself.

Cast

as Lo Ba Wong La *

as Chiu Seng-neng *

as Black Section Sorcerer * Nina Li Chi as Sorcerer's Sister * Roy Chiao as Lawyer Robinson * Michael Dingo as Michael *

as Wong's Master * Billy Lau as Airport Security Guard / Jail Warden * Lau Chau-sang (Fung Lee) as Tibetan henchman * Lay Kah as Tibetan henchman *

as Airport Passenger (cameo) *

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as Mimi * Gabriel Wong as Mimi's lover * Anthony Carpio as Black Section Sorcerer's Henchman * Jack Wong *

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* Lee Ming-yeung as Mr. Bao * Bruce Law

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