remain celibate, and she leaves. Jue Yuan is ordained as a true monk of Shaolin. Jue Yuan also becomes the kung fu Sifu of the Shaolin Temple, leading the monks in their training. Cast Jet Li as Jue Yuan Ding Lan as Bai Wu Xia Yu Hai as Sifu as Wu Kong Jian-kui Sun as Se Kong Liu Huailiang as Liao Kong Wang Jue as Ban Kong Du Chuanyang as Wei Kong Cui Zhiqiang as Xuan Kong Xun Feng as Dao Kong Pan Hanguang as Zhi Cao Fan Ping as Hui Neng Jiang Hongbo as Hui Yin Shan Qi Bo Tong as Hui Yang Zhang Jianwen as Fang Zhang Yang Dihua as Seng Zhi Wang Guangkuan as Li Shimin Yu Chenghui as Wang Renze (Wang Shichong's nephew) Ji Chunhua as Tu Ying Pan Qingfu as First General Su Fei as Second General Chen Guo'an as Third General Bian Lichang as Fourth General Wang Guoyi as Fifth General Kong Fanyan as Sixth General Sun Shengjun as Seventh General Yan Dihua as Shaolin Senior Monk Hung Yan-yan as Shaolin student Production The film was produced on a budget of (). During production, Jet Li was reportedly paid only per day while filming. Box office In China, it became the highest-grossing film of all time, grossing (). The film reportedly sold more than tickets across China within its first six months of release, eventually selling an estimated total of tickets in China. In Hong Kong, the film sold 700,000 tickets, and grossed (), making it the fourth top-grossing film of 1982 in Hong Kong. It became the highest-grossing film of all time in Singapore with a gross of S$1.7 million (). In Japan, it was the fourth top-grossing film of 1982, with in distributor rentals and a box office record of in gross receipts, equivalent to () in gross revenue. In South Korea, the film sold 294,065 tickets in Seoul alone and set a box office record of () grossed nationwide in 1983. This brings the film's total box office gross revenue to in East Asia. Adjusted for inflation at Chinese ticket prices in 2017, the film's adjusted gross revenue in China is estimated to be in the tens of billions of Chinese yuan (billions of US dollars) in 2017. Accolades 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards Nomination: Best Action Direction (Yue Hoi, Ma Xianda, Pan Qingfu, Wong Seung-hoi) Legacy The film was largely