Hail the Judge (1994) on Netflix
Chi Siu-Lin is accused of murdering her husband, and the Shang family has money and the lawyer Fong Tong-Kan. The man who takes her side is Pao Lung-Sing, a corrupt ninth-degree judge.
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In 1874, Pao Lung-Sing, an idle young man whose ancestor was the famous judge Bao Zheng, is made acting magistrate after his father buys him the post. He takes bribes, the local gentry like him, the public does not, and his nephew Pao Yau Wai serves as his assistant. At a wedding feast in Master Chi's house, the corrupt officer Lei Pao, known as Panther, claims the family is sheltering fugitives and demands a bribe; Pao feigns friendship, then has him seized at a banquet at the court. Months later Chi Siu-Lin, Master Chi's daughter-in-law, is charged with her husband's murder. The Shang family brings in the lawyer Fong Tong-Kan, and the case turns against her.
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