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Director: Gordon Chan, Yuen Woo-ping

Starring: Jet Li, Chin Siu-ho, Shinobu Nakayama, Billy Chow, Yasuaki Kurata, Paul Chun

Productor: Tsui Hark

Written by: Gordon Chan, Lan Kay-toa, Kwong Kim-yip

Music: Joseph Koo, Stephen Edwards

Country: Hong Kong

Release date: December 22,1994

Running time: 103 minutes

PLOT

Chen Zhen is attending class in Kyoto University when some Japanese karate students burst in and attempt to force him out because he is Chinese. Mitsuko Yamada, one of Chen's female classmates who has a crush on him, along with Chen's professor and other students, speak up for him. The thugs turn violent but Chen tackles and defeats them using a variety of controlled Chin Na techniques. The karate students' sensei, Funakochi Fumio, who is also Mitsuko's uncle, arrives and apologises for his students' behavior. Fumio is impressed by Chen's skill and converses with him, and Chen learns that his sifu Huo Yuanjia has died after losing in a match against a Japanese martial artist. Chen is distraught after hearing the bad news and he leaves for Shanghai immediately.

Chen returns to Jingwu School and sees that his sifu's son, Huo Ting'en, has become the new master of the school. The next day, Chen goes to a dojo and demands to see Ryoichi Akutagawa, the Japanese fighter who defeated Huo Yuanjia. Akutagawa's students attempt to force Chen out with violence, but Chen defeats them. Akutagawa arrives on the scene and honourably accepts Chen's challenge to a fight. Chen defeats Akutagawa easily and concludes that Akutagawa is not capable of defeating his sifu, after which he suspects that there is something wrong about Huo Yuanjia's death. Chen has Huo's corpse exhumed for an autopsy against the wishes of Huo Ting'en and Jingwu's members. The coroner revealed that Huo Yuanjia was poisoned and weakened before his match against Akutagawa and that caused his death. Over the next few days, word of Chen's victory against Akutagawa spreads and Chen becomes a local celebrity in Shanghai. Jingwu's students begin to look up to Chen as their new instructor and that incurs the jealousy of Huo Ting'en. Huo remains silent and seeks comfort in a brothel, where he becomes romantically involved with a prostitute.

_{References: Wikipedia, Fist of Legend}

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