In the mid-Qing dynasty
China's fortunes began to wane
Externally there was encroachment by the West
Internally the Divine Truth Cult caused chaos
Forefathers bless us and protect our troops
Brothers
Defeat the enemy and take the capital
We'll have more rice than we can eat
Kill
Charge
Hundreds of thousands of Divine Truth troops
swept through Beijing and Zhili into Shandong
Nothing could stand in their way
Among the Divine troops
there was a freak
who would later become a great master of kung fu
Lu Chan
Let's get this battle over with and eat
Jayden Yuan as The FREAK
2008 Men's Wushu Olympic champion
The enemy's sent in the cavalry
Nan
Time for Lu Chan to show what he can do
Would that be all right?
Just do as I say
Okay
Lu Chan
Sorry about this
18 years earlier Guangping Hebei Province
The Freak was born
Shu Qi as the Freak's mother
Named Yang Lu Chan
one could tell he was born different
There was some sort of growth on his head
Lu Chan's mother firmly believed her son was destined for greatness
and gave all her love to him
Isn't our son adorable?
Andrew Lau as Lu Chan's father
Director of the "infernal Affairs" trilogy
Please take a look
Why do you have to eat everything?
Because I'm always hungry
Lu Chan's mother was wise to the ways of the world
Men are bad by nature so you must rely on yourself
Ledger
She has to take care of herself and Lu Chan
Winter
Everyone please watch our show
Fung Hak-On as Old Zhao
Founding member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team
What the hell?
Is this yours? Does it answer if you call out to it?
Candy gourd
He has a horn on his head!
Master everyone is leaving
Master he can do all your moves!
Nice power!
Meanwhile Lu Chan's mother was caught stealing
How much money have you stolen over the years?
I have to think about Lu Chan's future
Beat her to death!
Who dares?
I'm your legally-wedded wife
It's not up to servants to beat me
Master why are we following this kid?
Don't underestimate him! This kid has great potential!
Ma!
I'm afraid I can't take care of you anymore
I am Zhao Kan Ping and I perceive great potential in your son
This is known as "Three Blossoms on the Crown"
Most martial artists can't attain this even with decades of practice
but your your son was born with it
there's no limit to what he can achieve!
Madam please entrust your son to me
Kneel down!
You're the only one who sees my son's potential besides me
Remember you just need to do this one thing well in life
Ma will sleep now
10 years later
Has Lu Chan become a Divine soldier?
It seems Old Zhao is the Divine Truth Cult's master-at-arms
who recruits troops in the guise of a street-performer
Lu Chan
Big Brother Nan
Sorry about this
What the hell?
Make Way!
Out of the way
Master Dong
This treasure of the Divine Truth Cult is all yours
Leung Siu-lung as Master Dong-1970s kung fu superstar
Silly boy risking your neck again
How are you sir?
Sorry to be a bother again
Silly boy
Would you rather live or die?
What?
If you'd rather die I won't stand in your way
But if you want to live
you have to listen to me
Never let anyone touch your "Three Blossoms on the Crown"
Don't ever practice kung fu again either
Otherwise your life will be in peril
What do you mean?
Your master only cares about fighting his battles
He doesn't care about your life or anyone else's
If you go on like this
you'll be dead before you know it
No way!
My master says the more I fight the stronger I'll get!
This martial arts style your master has taught you
relies on a hard stance and brute force
All it will do is deplete your internal energy
and shorten your life
Look at your horn of flesh
It's turned from red to purple
Once it turns black
you're dead for sure
Your only option is to practice internal martial arts
to completely alter your body's energy channels
That's the only way you'll escape an early grave
Internal martial arts?
Where can I learn that?
The Chen Village
Just cure him instead of talking about Chen-style kung fu!
So you haven't given up yet?
Master
I'm a doctor
I can't let people die without knowing the reason why
The reason why
You lost your fingers trying to steal Chen-style kung fu
You want others to follow your example?
Don't listen to this old fool's nonsense
Just practice the kung fu I taught you
Don't drink!
What the hell?
Drink the medicine while it's hot
Watch me demolish your Chen-style kung fu!
You
Kung fu thief!
That's right
I did steal their kung fu
And I only stole these three moves
which are more than enough to deal with you
Look at your horn of flesh
It's turned from red to purple
Once it turns black
you're dead for sure
Your only option is to practice internal martial arts
to completely alter your body's energy channels
That's the only way you'll escape an early grave
Imperial troops are attacking!
Wake up!
Imperial troops are attacking!
Help!
Fire!
Master Dong!
Lu Chan
You must hurry to the Chen Village!
Beg Master Chen Chang Xing to teach you kung fu
Otherwise you're dead for sure
Master Dong!
Master!
Lu Chan!
Our master is dead
Brother Nan!
Just go
Just go!
Who are you?
Where are you going?
My name is Yang Lu Chan
I am looking for the Chen Village
You have to climb over that mountain
Which mountain?
That one!
Chen Village
Could you direct me to Master Chen?
You're here to learn kung fu?
Yes
Chen-style kung fu isn't taught to outsiders
You should leave
Sir
Where can I learn Chen-style kung fu?
Chen-style kung fu is not taught to outsiders
May I ask
Chen-style kung fu is not taught to outsiders!
I win
Why won't they let people learn?
Out of the way!
What the hell?
This way!
Oh dear!
Are you all right?
Where are you hurt?
Angela baby as Chen Yu Niang
Yu Niang!
How bad is it?
Eddie Peng Yu-Yen As Fang Zi Jing
If he's all right let's go
My name's Chen Yu Niang
Everyone in the village knows me
If you feel unwell
just come to see me
Yu Niang
ls the grandmaster back yet?
My mother's sick
He's not back yet
He'll return when he feels like it
Please give my regards to Master Chen
Sure
Which Master Chen?
There's only one Master here
Master Chen Chang Xing
Stone Bridge / Archway / Teahouse
Market / Vegetable Stall
Flagpole
Medicine Stop / Post Office
Windy Mountain
Chen Ancestral Hall
Side Annex
Can you handle it?
Can this thing really light up?
Stop talking nonsense
You have a try
Chen Si Cheng as Chen's Second Son
That Fang Zi Jing's really something
He only studied abroad for a few years
and all of a sudden he's turned into
the Chief Engineer
of Zhi Li Railway Construction
That Wimp
I never liked him even as a kid
Now he wears western clothing
and drives a western car
Would father really let him marry our little sister?
The marriage was arranged when they were kids
Little sister likes him anyway
Great!
If little sister finds out
she'll think we're trying to mess things up
Fifth Brother
You're here early
What are we discussing today?
Who knows?
Don't worry
Everything will be fine
They've started laying the railway tracks
You won't have to leave then
The train comes from Zheng Zhou
by way of the town of Huai Qing
and stops here at the Chen Village
Third Grand Uncle is here
You're all here
Third Grand Uncle
Why are you dressed like this?
Stanley Fung Shui-Fan as Third Grand Uncle
4th Uncle 5th Uncle 2nd Brother-in-law Elder Cousin
Where's your father?
Who knows?
I haven't seen him for a fortnight
Dear fellow villagers
Thank you for coming to this Zhi Li railway meeting
Zi Jing grew up in our village
and is grateful to all of you for taking care of him
Now that he's completed his studies abroad
and has become the Chief Engineer of Zhi Li Railway
he's brought honor to all of us
Why is he wearing the spittoon on his head?
May I have your attention please
This is a model of the railway
This object is called a train
It is the most advanced technology from the West
and the hope for the future of the Qing dynasty
The train comes from Zheng Zhou
via the town of Huai Qing
and stops at the Chen Village station
unloading sugar and western medicine
and loading up with our special local product
It makes transportation a lot easier
Let's say you want to go to Peking from Chen Village
On horseback it's a two-day journey
But riding train
you're nice and comfortable
and the journey only takes a day
Xiong Nai Jin as the Second Son's wife
Comfortable?
Have you ever thought about
once the railway reaches our village
what will happen to the inhabitants along the way?
And what will happen to our ancestral graves?
I'll answer that shortly
Please allow me to show you something you've never seen before
behold the power of western technology!
It really lights up!
This is called electric light
This is our hope and future!
It's on fire!
Don't leave!
Foreigners' stuff!
Nothing good will come of it
Not bad
Wimp here is really the hope of China
Are you feeling unwell?
Not at all
I don't want money
If you're not sick and you don't need money
why have you come to see me?
I'm looking for Master Chen
I want to learn Chen-style kung fu
Chen-style kung fu is not taught to outsiders
Since I arrived at this village
that's what everyone's been telling me
So they've told you?
What an idiot you are!
I'm not an idiot
My mom told me
never let other people take advantage of you
I can't let you hit me for free
You have to introduce me to Master Chen
You really want to learn Chen-style kung fu?
Yes
Follow this road
Turn right at the big pagoda tree seven miles down
Turn left at the petrified forest
There you'll find Wu-Liang Mountain
Master Chen
Master Chen is in retreat on that mountain
Here I come!
Coffee Beans from Java
It's boiling!
This is called coffee
Coffee is ground from coffee beans
Zi Jing brought it back from Great Britain
It tastes even better than tea!
Yuck it's more bitter than Chinese medicine!
You don't know what you're talking about
The more bitter it is the better the quality
This is how you drink it!
What the hell?
There is a nunnery on the mountain
Master Chen wasn't there
You walk really fast!
I thought it'd take you a couple of days
We should go
Let's go
Where is Master Chen?
Don't go!
I want to learn kung fu!
"Upper Arm Reverse Spiral"
"Chi-Consolidating Stance"
Take me to see Master Chen
Only If you can make me budge
Stop! His nose is bleeding!
I didn't touch him
He just keeps on pestering me
Go!
Oh dear
Where has he gone?
Secret River Cave
What the hell?
Sir
Can you
put me down?
I'm stopping your bleeding
Otherwise you might get a blood-clot in your brain
You could die from that
Sir...
Fine
Tony Leung Ka Fai as the Old Laborer
So do you know Chen-style kung fu?
Can you teach me?
I'm a laborer who does manual work
I don't know any of that what-you-call-it-style kung fu
Then
surely you know Master Chen Chang Xing?
I want to become his disciple
But as soon as people
hear that I want to learn kung fu
they either shoo me off or beat me up!
You wish to learn kung fu
to cure your ailment?
My mother...
My mother told me
I just need to do this one thing well in life
She wanted me to perfect my kung fu
Where is your mother now?
She died
You should go
Chen-style kung fu will never be passed on to you
There's no future for you if you stay
Your "Three Blossoms on the Crown" has gone from purple to black
You don't have much time left
You should go see a doctor as soon as possible
Sir
What the hell?
You promised to teach me dance when you gave me the phonograph
Come on
Now's not a good time
I should be going
Our village is small
Many villagers have never left here their whole life
Getting them to accept new things
is not an easy matter
But you can teach me first
I'm willing to learn anything
Then I can teach them once I've learned
That would take too long
I promised the governor I'd get it done
within ten days
What am I going to say to him?
Actually
if we become family
letting the railway into Chen Village
wouldn't be quite so difficult anymore
To be perfectly honest
it looks like I can't sort this out without you
I grew up in this village
but just because I'm a distant relative
with a different surname
I wasn't allowed to learn kung fu
I had to put up with your brothers pushing me around
I thought that if I learned a modern profession
I'd finally gain everyone's respect
But what happened?
It turns out nothing has changed
You're a practitioner of the great Chen-style kung fu
and I'm still just an outsider
I'm not a good match for you
Put it in there. That's right
Post Office
Zi jing
about the railway
you shouldn't rush things
As for our betrothal
please don't tarry anymore
I want to learn kung fu
You're really not afraid of dying?
No
I have no fear of anything if I can learn kung fu
Very well
I'll fulfill your wish
Watch closely
This move is "Parting the Wild Horse's Mane"
Didn't you say you want to learn kung fu?
Why are you still lying on the ground?
Get up!
I couldn't follow it
Do it again
Come on
"Double Pushing-Hands"
Again
"Crossed Lotus"
What the hell?
From this day forth
You're forbidden from setting foot in our village
If you do not abide by this
you'll be clobbered by everyone young and old alike
Close the gates
Barn!
Governor!
The people in the Chen Village are very un-enlightened
I've had a dialog with them for over a fortnight
but have yet to bring them around
Enough
Your travel expenses amount to 30 taels of silver
Meals cost 17 taels
Sundry expenses 12 taels
You're there to build a railway not take a vacation!
61 taels of silver in total
All the money comes from the common people
People snicker that I used to be a merchant
that I'm a bean-counter
Even my robe of office belonged to the previous Governor
And you wonder how you've let me down?
Your Excellency
The building of the railway has hit a snag
You're not the only one who's concerned
the company's putting a lot of pressure on me too
They've just sent a foreign consultant to monitor our work
Consultant?
Halt!
How do you do your Excellency? I'm Claire
Tianjin-based consultant of the East India Company
Prince Chun is a good friend of mine
The Prince
sent you here to monitor me?
No
The company heard that Mr. Fang's run into some difficulties
so they dispatched me to help
Where Fang Zi Jing has failed
can a foreign woman sort things out?
Your Excellency
Claire didn't come here empty-handed
Since the negotiations with the Chen Village have failed
we have to rely on the power of the industrial revolution
Lu Chan
You just need to do this one thing well in life
Learn kung fu well from the Master
I must enter the village!
Entering Chen Village - Walkthru
Stage One: The Entrance
Xiong Xin Xin as Uncle Qin
"Ghost Leg Seven" from the "Once upon a time in China" series
Yang Lu Chan vs Uncle Qin
Stage One: Uncle Qin WINS
Day 2
Stage Two: The Market
Zhao Di vs Yang Lu Chan
Sister Yu Niang said you're not allowed to enter
Go
Wei Ai Xuan as Zhao Di
Prodigy from the Beijing Shichahai Sports School
Still running?
Over the past 120 years
87 people came to Chen Village to learn kung fu
63 of them left after learning they didn't teach outsiders
11 were defeated at the village entrance, 5 were beaten at the marketplace
Stage Two: Yang Lu Chan LOSES
Stage Three: The Archway
Xu Hui Hui as Sister Mahjong
Head Coach of Italian Tai-chi Team
Yang Lu Chan vs Sister Mahjong
Mahjong!
The remainder were all stopped at the Archway
Except for 8-fingered Master Dong who became village handyman
the only one left is
You got beaten up like this and you still won't leave?
Chen-style kung fu is really fantastic!
Just like this
a grab
a pull
a hook
a pierce-through
It's beaten me up to seventh heaven!
This is the first time I've seen anyone so happy at being beaten up
You've mimicked the moves quite well
Yeah!
This is how I've learned kung fu since I was a kid
I remember other people's every move
Is that so?
Then why don't you give them a taste of their own medicine?
What medicine?
Next time you fight with them
remember their moves
Whatever move they use against you just use it back at them
Look! The idiot's back for more!
He dares to challenge Brother Tofu
Stage Four: Town Center
Shen Si as Brother Tofu
12th Generation successor of Chen-Style Tai-chi
If you can hit the tofu off my hand
you win
This lad's so stubborn! He doesn't care about his life!
Next time you fight with them
remember their moves
Whatever move they use against you
you use it back at them
Knock-off "Monkey Offering Fruit"
He should use the move "Monkey Offering Fruit"
He should use "Lazily Tucking the Robe"
Who pushed me?
Your tofu
I'm sorry
That was an accident! Rematch?
Brother you've won
The idiot made it
He actually beat Brother Tofu
This young fool's really good
He's mimicked the style really well
Every move is just like the real thing
Uncle Laborer
I've made it
Mother I've made it
Where's Master Chen?
Master Chen I want to learn kung fu
What the hell?
Uncle Laborer
I made it
Uncle Laborer
Master Chen
I want to learn kung fu
Where are you?
Mother I've won
What the hell?
No wonder the idiot got smart
A master's been teaching him behind our backs
The fool is just mimicking the moves
Isn't that teaching him how to steal our kung fu?
It's against our ancestral rules!
I'm just an onlooker
What rules can I possibly be breaking?
There is a monster!
Increase the horsepower!
Yes sir!
We've arrived at the Chen Village
Quickly!
The new railway tracks are ready Sir!
Zi Jing
By order of his Excellency the Governor
for the purpose of constructing the Zhi Li Railway
Chen Village has 7 days to voluntarily pull down their houses
At the end of that time our machine will forcibly enter
and destroy everything without exception
You want to pull down our houses?
Wimpy!
Don't think we'll be scared of you
just because you brought along this crappy thing!
Yu Niang
Out of the way
Claire stop!
Fang Zi Jing
this is your home village
How can you do this?
Leave right now with this... this monster!
Why doesn't anyone speak up?
Third Grand Uncle said
they've all retired from worldly affairs
The person to deal with problems like this
is the Grandmaster
our father
Every day he comes and goes like a shadow
He could be standing right behind you for all you know
But he just disappears whenever something goes wrong
As you know
he's a free spirit
Free spirit?
He just runs away from his obligations
Yu Niang
where are you going?
Our Grandmaster may not take up the responsibility
but I'm not taking this lying down
Watch out!
Hurry UP!
DANGER EXPLOSIVES
Reduce horsepower to 340
Yes Sir!
I've already told them to go to minimum capacity
You can read my thoughts
We've known each other for such a long time
of course I understand you
You don't really want to destroy this village
You just want to prove yourself
When I saw that girl
I finally understood
why you insisted on coming back
Those are two separate matters
I came back
Claire
I came back to make a contribution with what I've learned
I want to help those villagers
extract themselves from poverty and ignorance
I don't care about these things
I can see from the look in her eyes
she really cares about you
I said I have my own mission
Then what about me?
I came all this way to this place
do you think I really care about this job?
You should know very well how I feel
I won't consider personal affairs until the mission is over
Then let's finish the job first
This is the instruction manual for Troy
The machine's all yours
The foreign novelty is really ingenious
It's not something we should underestimate
What the hell?
What is that?
It can even sing
This is called a phonograph
Whether you speak or fart
it can record the sound for posterity
It took me a long time to fix it
One more thing
I need to tell you
you've over-exerted yourself
Your blood is rushing to your head
Now your fleshy horn has turned black
You can't practice kung fu anymore
You've passed out for one whole day and night
While you were asleep
something terrible happened in the village
What the hell?
A house-eating monster has come to Chen Village
Before long
it will gobble up the whole village
If Chen Village is no more
that will be the end of Chen-style kung fu
We can't let that happen!
We have to stop the monster!
This monster
is so tough even Chen Chang Xing can't defeat it
What can you hope to do?
Not even Master Chen can defeat it?
No
Then what do we do?
Iron monster
Foreign soldiers
The place for taking showers
Tent
This is you
First you borrow a work uniform from the showers
then walk over
The soldiers on patrol won't recognize you
This is how you can reach the bottom of the iron monster
But once you get to the top beware of the guard
Once he passes by
you can enter the iron monster directly
Once you've helped destroy the iron monster
you'll be a great hero to the Chen Village
Then it will be an easy matter
for you to learn our style of martial arts
It's that easy?
That easy?
First we have to consider how to destroy it
Claire may I come in?
Come in
Please don't go
I've been making a fool out of myself
You made that very clear
I need you Claire
As much as those two ice cold rail road tracks
Listen
I've always loved you
A. He said it off-hand on the spur of the moment
B. He's finally declaring his long-suppressed love
C. He'd say anything to get ahead
D. All of the above
B. He's finally declaring his long-suppressed love
But your family is so well off
and I'm just some...
I don't care
But I do care
Since I was a kid
I had to keep my head down
If I dare look up all I see is scorn or pity
But when I met you
I felt different
I'd never felt this way before
You changed me Claire
Yu Niang
The Next Day
Translate this book
You're the postmaster
You must know English
I'm an official of the Emperor
I would lose my head if I translate this
If you don't do it
you'll lose your head now!
It's up to you
Instruction Manual for Troy
Warning
You're trying to draw...?
You have to look at it this way
There's also this
and this
and this!
And this as well!
I get it
What is it that you're drawing?
Fortunately I can understand it
What you see now
is the internal structure of the iron monster
Your objective
is the central flywheel at the bottom level
But since the bottom level's heavily guarded
we have to go in from the top
Behind the door
is the passage on the top level
The passage is full of jet vents
Ready
90
At the end of the passage
there is a spiral staircase
leading directly to the bottom level
There's a machine at the bottom level
with a foreign soldier in front of it
We have to get past him quietly from behind
Behind this machine
there's another foreign soldier
If you're lucky his back will be turned towards you
You just need to knock him out from behind
What if I'm not lucky?
Then just knock him out to his face
When you get here
then congratulations
you've reached the central flywheel
Once you're there
take out the iron stick you brought along
and once you jam the gears
the monster will be destroyed
Which gears?
What if the gears don't get jammed?
Then you'll be surrounded by foreign soldiers
You could have escaped during the chaos
But now
all you can do is hope for the best
He's over there!
Don't let him get away!
Grab him!
Why are you here?
I should be asking you
Have you seen this lock?
If we can find this lock
we have a chance of destroying this monster
Are you asleep stinky monster?
Where can the lock be?
Could it be this one?
Wake up monster!
Is it this one?
Hurry up and leave
or else I'll beat you up
Did you hear me?
After the rails are built
I will come for you
If you really care about our future
then come with me
Lu Chan
This should be it
Stop!
Don't come any closer
I'm destroying this monster no matter what
If you destroy it
you and I will be enemies
Then enemies we'll be
Go
Claire
The machine is ruined
and so am I
Zi Jing
Claire
Isn't it better that it's destroyed?
We can go back to London together
We'll go back together
I'll destroy Chen Village
I'll destroy Chen Village!
What's happening?
Out of the way
Looks like Yu Niang
Yu Niang
What's the matter Yu Niang?
Yu Niang
Put me down
Yu Niang
Are you all right?
What happened?
I have...
we destroyed the monster
I helped too!
Hail to the heroes!
Stop!
I came to learn kung fu
Can I learn kung fu now?
You did all that just to learn kung fu?
That's right
Uncle Laborer said
once I become a hero
I can learn kung fu from Master Chen
Uncle Laborer?
Are you talking about me?
What the hell?
Father!
Father?
You're Chen Chang Xing?
None other
Chen Chang Xing Grandmaster of Chen-style kung fu
Tony Leung Ka Fai as Chen Chang Xing
You lied to me!
No you didn't
You never said you weren't Chen Chang Xing
Whatever
Can I learn kung fu now?
No
A great disaster is about to befall Chen Village
What disaster? The monster's been destroyed!
The reason I got an outsider to sabotage the machine
was to make sure Chen Village didn't get involved
I never thought you'd join in
and even kill someone
Kill someone? What do you mean?
When the iron monster exploded
the foreign woman was killed
This couldn't be avoided after all
Troops will soon arrive at our village
Everyone prepare for battle!
When the troops enter our village
we must treat them with every respect
Our goal is to protect our homes
We must do our best not to cause casualties
Yang Lu Chan's internal injuries run deep
He can't fight anymore
Towns people take up your positions
Follow my orders
We'll do it in four stages
Remember: It's best to disrupt the enemy
or to trap them
injuring the enemy is the last resort
Chemical formula: As203
Effect: Dizziness upon inhalation Disorientation and hallucinations may occur
Wind Direction: Northwest to southeast
Wind Speed: 200MPM
Strategem 1: Disrupting the Real with the Fake
Why is it so foggy all of a sudden?
Strategem 2: Overcoming Yang with Yin
What are you waiting for? Shoot them!
They're firing!
Old Liu's been shot!
Reload
People of Chen Village hear this!
Sabotage of the railway is a crime against the state
Hand over Chen Yu Niang and Yang Lu Chan
and instigator Chen Chang Xing immediately
Otherwise
all of you will be deemed accessories after the fact
You'd turn your Western weapons against your own villagers?
Strategem 3: Overcoming the Hard with the Soft
Fang Zi Jing!
Do you have any conscience?
It's all your own fault!
Arrest them
Go
Yu Niang watch out!
Strange
How would this outsider know our Chen-style?
Yu Niang
Idiot
Get into formation
Lu Chan
Fire!
Get down!
Final Strategem: Man and Heaven Become One
Seize them!
Load your guns
Everyone let's drive the imperial troops away!
Everyone! Drive these soldiers away!
Get out of the Chen Village!
No... it wasn't me
I didn't order them to shoot!
Lu Chan!
This person's surname is Yang
He is not of our family
How does he know our Chen-style kung fu?
To answer your question
This lad loitered in our village for many days
demanding to learn kung fu
Our clan tried to dissuade him
They resorted to expel him
but surprisingly this lad mimicked their moves
and thus came to learn our Chen-style
He has learned almost half of it
In that case... he's stolen our kung fu!
He did indeed steal our kung fu
In full light of day
Lu Chan learned our family style before the eyes of everyone
How can that be theft?
Stealing in public!
That's not stealing?
It's not stealing kung fu!
But it is stealing kung fu!
Silence!
Although this took place in public
it was nevertheless done without permission
Taking without permission
constitutes theft
This idiot put his life on the line
to save Chen Village
He drove off troops armed with guns
Doesn't that make up for his offense?
He certainly should be rewarded for his good deed
but he must nevertheless be punished for his offense
Where's your humanity?
How can you say that?
It's all your fault!
If you didn't give him pointers in secret
there's no way he could have won
What? You taught him yourself!
This lad has "Three Blossoms on the Crown"
He's a once-in-a-century prodigy
Out of the goodness of my heart
I tried to save his life
But remembering our ancestral rules
I never taught him a single move
Now
His "Three Blossoms" have turned from purple to black
He could die at any moment
He could die at any moment?
Our generation has always abided by your rules
but I beg you to take his affliction into account
Don't punish him by severing his internal energy channels
Let him live out his remaining days in peace
No
Our ancestral rule is to punish theft of kung fu by disabling it
Then may I ask how is his kung fu to be disabled?
I have practiced martial arts all my life
but I've never learned how to do that
Do you know how?
We must pull out his tendons and break his bones
if he can still fight with his leg tendons pulled
does that mean you must pull his arm tendons too?
And if that doesn't work
should we smash his major bones as well?
That is what butchers do
I refuse to do it
You have to whether you're willing or not
You Zhi, bring out the ancestral blade
Father think of something quick!
Only one person can save him now
Who is it?
You
Wait!
Isn't this just a problem of family name?
If he marries me
and takes our surname of Chen he'll no longer be an outsider
There'll be no more issue of stealing kung fu
Father
do you have any objections?
You've always done as you pleased
What say do I have in the matter?
Father doesn't object
It's decided then
This is amazing beyond words!
Thanks to you
the magnificence of Chinese martial arts
has prevailed over western armaments
A small community like Chen Village
has overcome all your men and machinery
A foreign consultant even died
Once the Prince finds out
and orders an investigation
I'll make sure you're the first to carry the blame
Look at yourself!
What else does the East India Company have up its sleeve?
Bring it on!
Sister Yu Niang
Why are you marrying that idiot?
Don't talk nonsense
My apologies
Chen Village is closed today
It's a joyous occasion for the Chen Village
By order of the Grandmaster
all outsiders are barred from entry
Many apologies
What if I insist on entering?
My friend
listen to me
If you want to cause trouble
you've picked the wrong place!
Look closely Uncle Qin
Do I look like trouble to you?
The End
Actually...
not quite the end...
I can see the coastline
We're in Tianjin
Man your post! Stay alert!
Do we need these for the Chinese army?
It's not for the army
Have you ever heard of kung fu?
Kung fu?
Looks like it's going to rain
Let's go! Quick! Cover the cannons!
Don't let the Krupp Cannon get wet
Put up the tarpaulin
From Zero to Hero
We are just halfway through his journey
The rest of the way he'd rely on...
Rely on what?
Your Yin to be in harmony with his Yang
I'm your master
so you sleep on the floor
How long do I need to keep this stance?
Until I am happy
So this is it?
Or there are more to come...?
Yang Lu Chan was a member of the rebels
The Chen Village harbors the criminal
Fang Zi Jing is back
He will be seeking revenge
An inevitable battle
and a Hero will rise...
Tony Leung Ka Fai
Feng Shao Feng
Eddie Peng Yu-Yen
Angela baby
Daniel Wu
The Freak
From Producer Chen Kuo Fu
I'm not your Master tonight
Come to bed
A Film by Stephen Fung
Action Choreographer Sammo Hung
TAICHI HERO
Let the Battle begin October 25