Fist of Legend

(1994)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 635 votes

Genres: Action

Year: 1994

Runtime: 103 мин

Country: Hong Kong, China

Director: 陳嘉上

Cast: Джет Ли, Синобу Накаяма, 錢小豪, Билли Чоу, 倉田保昭, 秦沛, 蔡少芬, Джексон Лю, 高橋利道, 袁祥仁

Plot

Chen returns to his school when he finds out that his martial arts teacher has died. When he learns that his school students are harassed by some hooligans, he gears himself up to save them.

Chen Zhen, a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto, who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanse fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada, daughter of the director, returns in 1937 to his native Shangai, under Japanse protectorate -in fact military occupation- after reading about the death of his kung-fu master Huo Yuan Jia in a fight against the Japanese champion Ryuichi Akutagawa. While overcoming suspicion and ambition within the kungfu school, Chen exhumes his master to prove Hou's defeat was the result of poisoning. Both nationalities make the case a test of honor, so Chinese and Japanese pride are at stake when it culminates in Chen's final epic duel against the ruthless, undefeated Japanese general Fujita.