Fist of Legend

Fist of Legend

103 mins | Action | Dec. 22, 1994

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 Hou Ting-An in a fight against the Japanese champion Ryuichi Akutagawa.

Fist of Legend

103 mins | Action | Dec. 22, 1994

Fist of Legend
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 Hou Ting-An in a fight against the Japanese champion Ryuichi Akutagawa.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Eastern Productions
Original title 精武英雄
Directors Yuen Pau Woo, Gordon Chan
Writers Kim Yip Kwong-Kim, Lan Kay Toa, Gordon Chan

Cast

Jet Li

as Chen Zhen

Shinobu Nakayama

as Mitsuko Yamada

Chin Siu-Ho

as Hou Ting-An

Paul Chun

as Nong Jinsun

Yasuaki Kurata

as Fuimo Funakoshi

Billy Chow Bei-Lei

as General Fujita

Ada Choi

as Rose

Cheung-Yan Yuen

as Captain Jie

Jackson Liu

as Ryuichi Akutagawa

Suk-Mui Tam

as Jing Wu Mun girl- Xiao Hui

Wong San

as Uncle Gen

Derek Cheung Chi-Chuen

as Akutagawa's Student

Toshimichi Takahashi

as Japanese Ambassador

Mike Leeder

as Tournament Referee

Lee Man-Biu

as Biu

Shaun Britton

as English Gentleman at Dock

Wong Wa-Wo

as Policeman