Chen Zhen, a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto, who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanse fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada, daughter of the director, returns in 1937 to his native Shangai, under Japanse protectorate -in fact military occupation- after reading about the death of his kung-fu master Hou Ting-An in a fight against the Japanese champion Ryuichi Akutagawa.
Jet Li
Shinobu Nakayama
Chin Siu-Ho
Paul Chun Pui
Yasuaki Kurata
Billy Chow Bei-Lei
Ada Choi
Yuen Cheung-Yan
Jackson Liu
Carol Tam
Wong San
Derek Cheung Chi-Chuen
Toshimichi Takahashi
Mike Leeder
Lee Man-Piu
Shaun Britton
Jimmy Wong Wa-Wo
Chow Gam-Kong
Jack Wong Wai-Leung
Paco Yick Tin-Hung
Lee Tat-Chiu
Jacky Cheung Chun-Hung