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Director: Chang Hsin-yen

Starring: Jet Li, Yu Hai, Ding Laam, Yu Chenghui, Ji Chunhua

Country: Hong Kong

Release date: January 21, 1982

Running time: 95 minutes

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The film was set during the transition between Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty.

The film opens with the scene of a novice (Jet Li) about to be accepted into the Shaolin monastery. When the novice is asked about the vows of abstentions, the film goes into a flashback showing how he came to the Shaolin Temple; the novice was a conscripted laborer who was forced, with his father, into service of the warlord Wang Shichong, who ruled from Luoyang and assigned to oversee defences at a region near Shaolin monastery against rival warlords.

Provoked into retaliating against harsh treatment, the father was killed by the guards, but the son managed to escape and found refuge in Shaolin Temple, and was given the name Jueyuan. In the temple, Jueyuan eagerly sought to learn martial arts in order to avenge his father. During a failed assassination attempt of Wang Renze (Yu Chenghui), he saved a local girl, Bai (Ding Lan), who turned out to be daughter of one of his instructors from the temple.

_{References: Wikipedia, Shaolin temple}