Details

Release year: 1994

Storyline

In 1937, a Chinese martial artist returns to Shanghai to find his teacher dead and his school harassed by the Japanese.

Top credits

Directors

Gordon Chan

Writers

Cast

Jet Li — Chen Zhen
Shinobu Nakayama — Mitsuko Yamada
Siu-Ho Chin — Hou Ting-En
Billy Chow — General Fujita (Supreme Killer)

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Did you know

• Jet Li plays Chen Zhen in this movie, a student of master Huo Yuanjia. Jet Li would then go on to play Master Huo Yuanjia in Fearless (2006)

• Fist of Legend was a major inspiration for the fight scenes in The Matrix (1999). The two films share the same fight choreographer, Yuen Woo-Ping.

• The U.S Version made by Miramax for its release on video in 2000 immediately caused an uproar with the Hong Kong Cinema fan community because it contained only a new English dub/score with alterations to the original dialogue and no original Cantonese option - a process many of their Hong Kong-acquired titles suffered (not to mention the edits).