Based on a legend from Shaolin Temple folklore Jet Li (Lethal Weapon 4) plays a vengeful youth Chieh Yuan who joins the Shaolin Temple in order to acquire the necessary skills to fight a vicious warlord who murdered his father. After many years of training Chieh Yuan believes that he is ready to take revenge for his father's death but the warlord's kung fu skills prove too mighty for the monk who just manages to escape back to Shaolin to train in earnest for a second innings! Jet Li is sensational in his debut film role showing a remarkable intensity that still enthrals audiences into the '90s. The superb fighting skills of this five times Wu Shu champion are complimented by a cast of martial arts champions who make the film's action sequences even more realistic.
Two parts family melodrama one part Chinese nationalist history. An unseen narrarator weaves the tale of his grandmother a poor rural Chinese girl sold into marriage to a leprous winemaker. After her husband's death the grandmother transforms the winery into a idyllic community of productive laborers only to have her progress thwarted by the invading Japanese.
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