Fist of Legend (1994)
Directed by Gordon Chan
Chen returns to his school when he finds out that his martial arts teacher has died. When he learns that his school students are harassed by some hooligans, he gears himself up to save them.
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What critics compared Fist of Legend to
But the real disappointment is the depiction of the Japanese as villians: all one-dimensional and straight out of a 40s US comic-book, they’re reminiscent of the sort of portrayal we’d have been used to in the films of the early 80s films like The Postman Fights Back and Fist Of Legend (itself a Fist Of Fury makeover).
This kind of general story outline will be familiar to fans of the martial arts genre whose films such as Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury and Jet Li’s Fist of Legend in 1994 are very often propelled by the feeling of Chinese nationalistic pride and no wonder considering the endless tyrannical savagery that the Japanese people inflicted throughout Chinese history.
20 years later, Jet Li would star in a very similar movie called Fist of Legend (1994).
He covered his ass by hiring arguably the best fight choreographer in Hong Kong, Yuen Woo-Ping, who did "The Matrix" and Jet Li's "Fist of Legend."