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Hero (1997)

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Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: A young man, Ma Wing-Jing (Kaneshiro) journeys to Shanghai, where he encounters a number of gangsters and crime lords. After saving the life of a nightclub owner, things just get more complicated... A young man, Ma Wing-Jing (Kaneshiro) journeys to Shanghai, where he encounters a number of gangsters and crime lords. After saving the life of a nightclub owner, things just get more complicated as he falls in love with a cabaret singer who belongs to a mob boss. The first martial arts film from the Shaw Brothers studio in almost twenty years. [More]

Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Yuen Biao, Jessica Hester, Valerie Chow

Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Yuen Biao, Jessica Hester, Valerie Chow, Yuen Wah, Yuen Tak

Director: Corey Yuen

Director: Corey Yuen

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Smoothly preposterous adventure set during the revolution in Shanghai, with martial arts thrown in.

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