Thursday, October 25, 2012

Fist of Legend

Fist of Legend
Plot
-Chen Zhen is a man who went to Kyoto, Japan to study engineering. He braves the insults and general dislike from his Japanese fellow students for his love of Mitsuko Yamada, a beautiful Japanese woman. He returns to his native Shanghai in 1937 to find it is under Japanese rule. His reason for returning? He read about the death of his kung-fu master Hou Ting-An in a fight against Japanese fighter Ryuichi Akutagawa. While dismissing all suspicion against the kung-fu school, Chen exhumes his master to prove Hou died from posioning. Both Japanese and Chinese make this case difficult, a test of honor, so to speak. Pride for both China and Japan are at stake here, when it takes Chen up against Japanese general Fujita in a fight






Cast
-Jet Li: Chen Zhen
-Shinobu Nakayama: Mitsuko Yamada
-Siu-Hou Chin: Hou Ting-An
-Billy Chow: General Fujita
-Jackson Liu: Ryuichi Akutagawa

Did You Know?
-In this movie, Jet Li plays Chen Zhen, a student of martial arts master Yuo Yuanjia. In the movie Fearless, he plays Master Huo Yuanjia

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