THE LEGEND OF THE FIST: THE RETURN OF CHEN ZHEN

GENRE:  Action/ Drama/ Martial-Arts/ Foreign
MADE:  2010
CAST:  Donnie Yen, Qi Shu
DIRECTOR:  Wai-Keung Lau
WRITER:  Gordon Chan

PLOT:  In Japanese occupied Shanghai Chen Zhen who was rumored to have been dead for some time reappears under an alias to help fight against the Japanese.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Iron Monkey, Ip Man, Tai Chi Master

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IRON MONKEY

GENRE:  Martial Arts/Foreign
MADE:  1993
CAST:  Rongguag Yu, Donnie Yen, Jean Wang
DIRECTOR:  Woo-Ping Yuen
WRITER:  Tai-Muk Lau, Cheung Tan, Pik-Yin Tang, Hark Tsui

PLOT:  Presented by Quentin Tarantino.  A provence in China is run by corrupt official, standing up for the common people is a masked martial artist who calls himself the Iron Monkey.  The Officials holds a  child hostage to strike a deal with a traveling physician, the father, to bring in the Iron Monkey.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,  Ip Man, Tai Chi Master

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IP MAN

GENRE:  Martial Arts/Drama/Biography
MADE:  2008
CAST:  Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Siu-Wong Fan
DIRECTOR:  Wilson Yip
WRITER:  Edmond Wong

PLOT:  A semi-biography of the famed Chinese martial artist Master Ip, the first martial artist master to teach Wing-Chun and rose the moral of the Chinese people during the Japanese invasion through martial arts teachings.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Iron Monkey, Tai Chi Master, Fearless

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