burning red lotus temple. Burning Red Lotus Temple is an action film directed by Lin Lingdong, starring Cheng Dong and Carman Lee, and released by Jiahe Film Co., Ltd. in 1994. The film tells the story that after Shaolin Temple was burned by the Qing army, a large number of Shaolin disciples were caught in the magic cave Honglian Temple. Finally, all the disciples joined hands to destroy the leader of the Qing army in Honglian Temple and burned Honglian Temple to escape from the world.