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Streaming Sleepers: Gordon Chan’s FIST OF LEGEND Lands A Hit On Tubi!

The action classic stars Jet Li, Billy Chow, Chin Siu-Ho and Yasuaki Kurata

Shout! Studios Unleashes A Fistful Of Jet Li Action Classics On 4K Digital In February!

After nabbing the Golden Princess library earlier this month, Shout! Studios back to blow our minds by revealing a quintet of Jet Li action hits arriving in February on 4K Digital!

FIST OF LEGEND (2019) Review: The Making Of A Hero

Mike Garcia

Prequel to the Chen Zhen played by Jet Li, in the essential 1994 classic that shares the same title in English with this production, that tells the story about the early adventures of Chen Zhen in Japan, during his days as student in the university of Tokyo, giving us an insight look of the beginning of his love relationship with the Japanese girl who gave him so many headaches in Jet Li’s “Fist of Legend” and making him, once again, the banner of the rights of the Chinese people against the evil Japanese empire, whom are again the villains in a plot loaded with that stale nationalism that looks so good in this type of movies and that positions the audience next to the hero. The little expressive, but brilliant martial artist, Tiger Xu, is in charge on this occasion of embodying the character, relying his performance on his terrific […]

South Korea Unleashes Its Own FIST OF LEGEND In A New Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Martial Arts Movie Junkie recently forwarded the new trailer for the Korean MMA action film, Fist Of Legend, which is now available online. The film is directed by Kang Woo-seok and stars Hwang Jeong-min, Yoo Joon-sang, Lee Yo-won, Yoon Je-moon, Jeong Woong-in and Seong Ji-roo. Fist Of Legend (a.k.a. The Legendary Fist), which has no relation to the classic 1994 Jet Li actioner of the same name, is based on an original webtoon about a group of friends, once heralded in their teen years as legends, who must now face each other as rivals in the ultimate prize-fighting competition. SYNOPSIS: A moment of bad luck derailed Deok-kyu’s Olympic dreams and led him and his friends to jail. Jin-ho got out of jail quickly because of his rich parents, but Deok-kyu, Jae-seok, and Sang-hoon were not so lucky.Years later, while running a noodle shop to earn extra money following an accident […]