Stars: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Xin Xin Xiong

Director: Sammo Hung

Summary: Wong and his fiancee and a friend called Seven, go in search of a new life in the Wild West. Set upon by local Indians Wong wakes to find himself alone but with the ability to fight. Countless adventures follow as he searches for his friends. Martial arts action set in Hong Kong and America.

Original series hero Jet Li returns triumphantly in this series installment, which finds Chinese nationalist and kung fu hero Wong Fei Hong heading to the American west. But a conk on the melon renders our hero an amnesiac, and but for the intercession of friendly Indians, he would be lost to the wild--and therefore unable to help exploited railroad workers fight back against their unscrupulous bosses.

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The first of a popular series (six in all) starring the charismatic and athletically adept Jet Li. Li plays legendary folk hero Wong Fei Hong, a late 19th-century southern Chinese healer and kung fu master. The story begins with Western powers (American, British and French) encroaching on the city of Canton. Wong is asked by the Black Flag army to safeguard the town by creating his own militia of kung fu experts. His assistants include the butcher "Porky" (Kent Cheng), a Chinese-American named Bucktooth So (Jacky Cheung) and his westernised "Auntie" Yee (Rosamund Kwan), a non-blood-related childhood friend for whom he holds a special affection. But the Westerners aren't the only problem in Canton. The ShaHo gang terrorises local businesses and has begun dealing with the Americans in exporting Chinese for slave labour and prostitution. A down-on-his-luck kung fu master named Iron Vest Yim (Yan Yee Kwan) has decided he needs to defeat Wong to open a school and Leung Fu (Jackie Chan contemporary Yuen Biao), a travelling opera troupe groupie, just keeps getting in the way. This epic martial-arts film showcases Li's amazing fighting and acrobatic skills and established Tsui Hark as a top-notch action film director. The final fight scene between Wong and Yim entails a dizzying orchestration of kicks and punches while teeter-tottering on ladders. The DVD features star bios, filmographies, trailers and clips from early Wong Fei Hong films that starred veteran actor Kwan Tak Hing. --Shannon Gee

Aspect Ratio:	Full Screen, Wide Screen
Main Language:	Cantonese
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Hong Kong Theatrical Trailer, US Theatrical Trailer, Making Of Featurette, Interactive Moving Menus, Scene Selection, Biographies, Filmographies, Legend Of Wong Fei Hung, Behind The Scenes Stills Gallery, Official Production Stills Gallery
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1997
Release Date:	October 23, 2000
Runtime:	102 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D V 1037
Label:	Hong Kong Classics
Keywords:	Special, Martial, America, Time, China, Edition, Wide, Screen, Full, Once, Upon, Arts, Collector's
Genre:	Martial Arts