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.

• Eastern Productions
• Orange Sky Golden Harvest
• Jet Li
• Shinobu Nakayama
• Chin Siu-Ho
• Paul Chun Pui
• Yasuaki Kurata
• Billy Chow Bei-Lei
• Ada Choi Siu-Fan
• Yuen Cheung-Yan