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Fearless (huo yuan jia)
By ChinaFilm.com Published: 2008-04-16
When Huo Yuanjia was a kid, he was eager to learn the martial arts. His father forbade him even to observe a practice session from the sidelines. Somehow Yuanjia managed to master the skill and taught himself how to fight. As the years passed, Yuanjia grew up to become known as a skilled and powerful fighter, and had won fight after fight. But as his fame grew, so did his pride . Yuanjia had become an arrogant hothead until one day he returned home to discover that his victory had cost him the lives of the people he loves most.
Crazed with grief and shame, Yuanjia flees from Tianjian to live in seclusion in a remote village. Slowly he began to forget his pain and his desire to fight.
Back in Tianjin, an American strongman named O’brien is making headlines by defeating China’s fighters and dismissing them as ‘Sick men of the East’. Yuanjia decides to go back to the arena and challenge the hulking wrestler, and beats him easily.
And then the battle of the century begins! A British boxer, a Spanish swordsman, a Prussian soldier - three formidable fighters, step into the ring, and one after another, Yuanjia defeats them. The last challenger is a Japanese, and is by far the most skilled competitor. As the two men stand face to face in the arena, the thousand-strong audience waits with baited breath.
What happened that day, on September 14th 1910, is something that nobody will ever forget.
Screenplay: Wang Bin, Zhou Sun, Du Zhilang
Cinematography: Pan Hengsheng
Director: Ronny Yu
Starring: Jet Li, Nakamura Shidou, Yuan Wo Ping, Dong Yong, Betty Sun, Nathan Jones, Collin Chou, Bao Qijing, Masato Harada
Running time: 110 min.
Co-produced by China Film Group & Xinghe Investment Company Ltd.
Produced in 2004
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