Fist of Legend VCD
Jet Li (Actor)
| Chin Siu Ho (Actor)
| Paul Chun (Actor)
| Nakayama Shinobu (Actor)
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Jet Li takes up the mantle of Bruce Lee's angry avenger in a remake of Fist of Fury! The Fearless kung fu king tackles the celebrated tales of Huo Yuanjia's disciple Chen Zhen, who was himself a legendary martial artist. Li produces as well as stars in the 1994 film from director Gordon Chan and action choreographer Yuen Woo Ping, which many critics and fans have given their thumbs up and agreed to be the masterpiece that represents Li at his peak in terms of power and agility. Surrounding Li is a great cast that includes Chin Siu Ho, Ada Choi, Billy Chow, Paul Chun, Kurata Yasuaki, and Nakayama Shinobu. Sixteen years later, Gordon Chan and Infernal Affairs director Andrew Lau are currently shooting a new Chen Zhen movie with Donnie Yen, and it would complete a trilogy of films about the iconic character portrayed by three generations of action superstars.
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| Product Title: | Fist of Legend 精武英雄 精武英雄 �鴛翠p雄 Fist Of Legend Fist of Legend |
| Artist Name(s): | Jet Li (Actor) | Chin Siu Ho (Actor) | Paul Chun (Actor) | Nakayama Shinobu (Actor) | Ada Choi | Billy Chow | Yuan Cheung Yan | Lau Hok Yin | Kurata Yasuaki | Ping Chi Ching | Lin Gang 李 連杰 (Actor) | 錢小豪 (Actor) | 秦沛 (Actor) | 中山忍 (Actor) | 蔡少芬 | 周比利 | 袁祥仁 | 樓學賢 | 倉田保昭 | 彭子晴 | 林剛 李 连杰 (Actor) | 钱小豪 (Actor) | 秦沛 (Actor) | 中山忍 (Actor) | 蔡少芬 | 周比利 | 袁祥仁 | 楼学贤 | 仓田保昭 | 彭子晴 | 林刚 李連杰（ジェット・リー） (Actor) | 錢小豪（チン・シウホウ） (Actor) | 秦沛（チョン・プイ） (Actor) | 中山忍 (Actor) | 蔡少芬（エイダ・チョイ） | 周比利（ビリー・チョウ） | 袁祥仁（ユエン・チョンヤン） | 樓學賢（ラウ・ホクイン） | 倉田保昭 | Ping Chi Ching | Lin Gang | 高橋利道 이연걸 (Actor) | Chin Siu Ho (Actor) | Paul Chun (Actor) | Nakayama Shinobu (Actor) | Ada Choi | Billy Chow | Yuan Cheung Yan | Lau Hok Yin | Kurata Yasuaki | Ping Chi Ching | Lin Gang |
| Director: | Gordon Chan 陳 嘉上 陈 嘉上 陳嘉上 （ゴードン・チャン） 진가상 |
| Action Director: | Yuen Woo Ping 袁和平 袁和平 袁和平（ユエン・ウーピン） Yuen Woo Ping |
| Release Date: | 2005-08-29 |
| Language: | Cantonese |
| Country of Origin: | Hong Kong |
| Disc Format(s): | VCD |
| Rating: | IIA |
| Other Information: | 2VCDs |
| Package Weight: | 110 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1598 |
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導演︰陳嘉上
Director: Gordon Chan
民國初年列強欺負中國，留學日本的陳真，得悉師父霍元甲於比武中被殺，馬上趕回追查真相，因而與幫派黑龍會及虹口道場結怨。原來日軍進佔上海後，軍部參謀藤田剛借虹口挑戰精武門為名，毒害元甲。
重返武館的陳真，最大心願乃協助元甲之子廷恩振興武館，但陳鋒芒太露，恩不悅，最後相方反目；加上陳的戀人光子乃是日本人，為世俗所不容，陳唯有離開。藤田向精武門挑戰，恩為大局著想，跟陳真和好，更傾囊相授霍家絕學迷蹤拳。陳跟恩赴藤田之戰，苦戰下把其擊殺，但藤田的死卻成了中日戰爭爆發的藥引。陳願意承擔後果，幸得恩求情，只是假死而沒被處決。從此陳隱姓埋名，到神州各地協助同胞，對抗外敵入侵。
Various world powers bullied China in the early years of the Republic. Chan Chun, who is studying in Japan, hears of his martial art master Fok Yuan-kap's death in a duel and hurries back to find out how the master was killed. In the process, he becomes the enemy of the Black Dragon Gang and the Hong Kou Gang. It turns out that, after the Japanese occupied Shanghai, a Japanese attach posed as a member of the Hong Kou Gang to challenge the Superb Martial School and killed Master Fok.
Back at the Superb Martial Clique, Chan wants to help Fok's son Ting-yan to revitalise the Clique. However, Chan is too brilliant for Ting-yan's liking and they are not on good terms. The fact that Chan is in love with a Japanese woman is also against him. Chan has to leave. The Japanese attach returns to challenge the Clique. To save the Clique, Ting-yan puts his jealousy for Chan aside and teaches him the secret martial art of the Fok family, Fist Enigma. Chan and Ting-yan fight the Japanese challenger and kill him after a fierce fight, but the death of the Japanese threatens to lead to war with Japan. Chan bravely shoulders all responsibility. Ting-yan manages to negotiate to let Chan fake the execution. Chan then changes his name and travels to all parts of China, helping the people to fight invasion.
Director: Gordon Chan
民國初年列強欺負中國，留學日本的陳真，得悉師父霍元甲於比武中被殺，馬上趕回追查真相，因而與幫派黑龍會及虹口道場結怨。原來日軍進佔上海後，軍部參謀藤田剛借虹口挑戰精武門為名，毒害元甲。
重返武館的陳真，最大心願乃協助元甲之子廷恩振興武館，但陳鋒芒太露，恩不悅，最後相方反目；加上陳的戀人光子乃是日本人，為世俗所不容，陳唯有離開。藤田向精武門挑戰，恩為大局著想，跟陳真和好，更傾囊相授霍家絕學迷蹤拳。陳跟恩赴藤田之戰，苦戰下把其擊殺，但藤田的死卻成了中日戰爭爆發的藥引。陳願意承擔後果，幸得恩求情，只是假死而沒被處決。從此陳隱姓埋名，到神州各地協助同胞，對抗外敵入侵。
Various world powers bullied China in the early years of the Republic. Chan Chun, who is studying in Japan, hears of his martial art master Fok Yuan-kap's death in a duel and hurries back to find out how the master was killed. In the process, he becomes the enemy of the Black Dragon Gang and the Hong Kou Gang. It turns out that, after the Japanese occupied Shanghai, a Japanese attach posed as a member of the Hong Kou Gang to challenge the Superb Martial School and killed Master Fok.
Back at the Superb Martial Clique, Chan wants to help Fok's son Ting-yan to revitalise the Clique. However, Chan is too brilliant for Ting-yan's liking and they are not on good terms. The fact that Chan is in love with a Japanese woman is also against him. Chan has to leave. The Japanese attach returns to challenge the Clique. To save the Clique, Ting-yan puts his jealousy for Chan aside and teaches him the secret martial art of the Fok family, Fist Enigma. Chan and Ting-yan fight the Japanese challenger and kill him after a fierce fight, but the death of the Japanese threatens to lead to war with Japan. Chan bravely shoulders all responsibility. Ting-yan manages to negotiate to let Chan fake the execution. Chan then changes his name and travels to all parts of China, helping the people to fight invasion.
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April 9, 2008
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If movies were dogs, Fist of Legend would be a Doberman Pinscher: a sleek, black juggernaut with its ears taped back. A remake of Bruce Lee's Fists of Fury (mistakenly called The Chinese Connection overseas), Fist of Legend is a styling call for the downtrodden to rise up against their oppressors. Faithful to its source, the year is 1921 and Jet Li plays a student of the Jingwu Mun school whose Master Huo dies at the hands of the occupying Japanese while Jet is studying abroad. He returns to the Jingwu Mun, in the throes of a leadership crisis, and before you know it he's on the trail of the murderer. If this was Sherlock Holmes, hed be casting footprints, poring over train schedules, and listening to alibis. But its Jet Li, and his investigatory method involves multiple, gravity-defying kicks, and fists that piston like blurs. The action is of the wire fu and heroic pose school, choreographed and executed by Yuen Woo-ping (The Matrix) and his stunt maniacs whore in full effect here as bodies snap, crack, and hit the mat at 800 RPMs. Fist of Legend is a high point in HKSAR action choreography, with fights unfolding in empty arenas and courtyards, giving it all a precise, unadulterated feel. The narrative is surprisingly clear, and it charges ahead on all eight cylinders. While the film sticks closely to Bruce Lee's storyline (even the funeral portrait of Master Hou is the same), director Gordon Chan and company manage to update things for the nicer 90s we lived in. The Japanese in this film are not all bad, Jet even gets a Japanese girlfriend (the Sanrio-esque Nakayama Shinobu) and one of his opponents (Yasuaki Kurata, the martial artist who lists to the left) is genuinely admirable as a fighting man of the world. The visuals are nothing short of stunning. The image of Jet Li in Japanese schoolboy uniform, hair ground down into a severe buzz is so graphically audacious that it sears the screen, and the framing has a crisp, geometric style that matches his isosceles widow's peak. Gorgeously studio-bound, the sets are austere, stark and color-designed to within an inch of their lives. As combatants clash, rich golden and red paper leaves swirl around them, falling from a papier mache birch. Like inhaling pure oxygen, its purity is an intoxicant. It's a pared-down, stripped-away, pedal-to-the-metal lacerating affair, and one of Jet Lis best. Make no mistake about it: this movie will fry your eggs. by Grady Hendrix |
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Anonymous
December 24, 2002
December 24, 2002
Magnificent
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This is a great film and one the best film's Jet Li has worked on in his career as he played the role of Chan Zhen extremely well. |
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October 17, 2001
October 17, 2001
THIS IS WICKED
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THIS IS JET AT HIS BEST, IT IS ONE OF THE BEST FOR A LONG TIME. THE CAMERA WORK IS BRILLIANT, THE FIGHT SCENES BREATHTAKING,TOTALY FLAT OUT ACTION,AND HAVING SEEN FIST OF FURY 23 YEARS AGO I THINK THAT THIS IS A BETTER FILM, BUT NOT QUITE AS GOOD AS TWIN WARRIORS, STILL MY FAVORITE AND JETS BEST TO DATE |
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