Chen Zhen, a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto, who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanse fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada, daughter of the director, returns in 1937 to his native Shangai, under Japanse protectorate -in fact military occupation- after reading about the death of his kung-fu master Hou Ting-An in a fight against the Japanese champion Ryuichi Akutagawa.

Title: Fist of Legend
Imdb rate: 7.6
Imdb votes: 20,846
Year: 1994
Language: Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, English
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Director: Gordon Chan
Writers: Gordon Chan (screenplay), Kwong Kim Yip (screenplay)
Actors:
Jet Li
Shinobu Nakayama
Siu-Ho Chin
Billy Chow

Awards: 2 nominations.