Grace Under Fire

Description: Mok Kwai lan Liu Xuan is an ordinary girl working as a water labourer in one of Guangzhou s most famous restaurants She lives in a simple and steady lifestyle with her uncle Mok Ping Law Lok lam and Ping s adopted son Yau Sam shui Kenneth Ma This simplicity is shaken when she meets the unsociable and eccentric young boxer Lui Ching lung Bosco Wong in an underground martial arts arena and the ambitious Kwai Fa Fala Chen an assistant chef who begins working in the same restaurant as her Longing for Fa s affections Sam shui hopes to become a student of Wong Fei Hung John Chiang the greatest martial artist of Guangzhou in order to impress her Kwai lan originally uninterested in martial arts becomes spellbound by the sport after watching an intense fight between Fei hung and Fok Koon wai Kenny Wong a Mizongyi practitioner Fei hung is a man loved by the people but his past had not been without causing offense When Kwai lan finds out that Ching lung s father Lui Kong Dominic Lam is sick with leprosy she asks for Fei hung s help However Kong does not appreciate Fei hung s hospitality and blames him for destroying his family Twenty years ago Kong was once Guangzhou s champion in the Lui Gar fighting style Fei hung already famous for his martial arts in Foshan challenged Kong to a duel The two swore an oath whoever lost the duel would have to leave Guangzhou Fei hung defeated Kong but Kong s wife fell ill postponing his leave Fei hung drunk from a celebratory dinner disgraced Kong in public and claimed him to be dishonourable for not keeping his promises In a rage Kong quickly leaves the city by night with his sick wife and their infant son Ching lung As a result Kong s wife died and Kong contracted leprosy Since then Kong and Ching lung had been struggling with discrimination and instability Ching lung who had been kept in the dark about his family s history is overwhelmed When Lui Kong feeling guilty over his inability to provide for his son decides to drown himself Ching lung seeks revenge and attempts to kill Fei hung in public He is easily defeated Fei hung however apologises to Ching lung for his mistakes and advises Ching lung to pick up more martial arts before coming back for revenge Unknown to his son Lui Kong is actually saved by Tong Yuet hang Elliot Ngok Guangzhou s chief commissioner Yuet hang talks Kong in starting his life over and suggests him to rebuild the Lui Gar martial arts school in order to compete with Fei hung s Po Chi Lam Yuet hang actually has his own agenda like Lui Kong he hated Fei hung and wanted Lui Kong to publicly humiliate him While Lui Kong recovers and prepares to re establish his school Ching lung is touched by Fei hung s generosity and decides to become his student He develops a crush on Kwai lan and also wins the affections of Fa Fei hung is touched by Sam shui s enthusiasm and agrees to teach him and Kwai lan but Ping is strongly against it He believes they would become aggressive and domineering if they learned kung fu Kwai lan disagrees and argues that kung fu is for self protection Her unyielding determination overwhelms Ping and Kwai lan learns from him that she is the only descendant of the Mok Gar family fighting style As Kwai lan s father died from a kung fu match Ping does not want Kwai lan to meet the same fate Fei hung sees a lot of potential in Kwai lan and convinces Ping to teach her the styles of Mok Gar Ping finally agrees simultaneously allowing Sam shui to become Fei hung s student Sam shui now proud and egotistical begins abusing his newfound martial arts skill This led to his involvement in a drunken brawl and the death of Fei hung s second son Wong Hon yip Raymond Wong Initially charged with murder and to be executed Fei hung eventually realizes his son had been murdered by someone else and rescues him but their friendship was forever ruined Now hardened by life in prison plagued by a prison record jealous of Fa s love for Ching lung and constantly looked down upon by the powerful Sam shui abandons martial arts and Fei hung s ideals instead striving to place himself in power first by becoming the increasingly powerful Lui Kong s head disciple Ching lung and Fa had left Guangzhou in their efforts to find Lui Kong and Fa was doing it only partially because she hoped to stay with Ching lung and keep him away from Kwai lan who she knows Ching lung had fallen for When Kwai lan unexpectedly visits them she confesses to Fa she had actually fallen for someone and Fa encourages her to go back to Guangzhou and admit her feelings while she and Ching lung continued their search for his father Kwai lan does so but not before telling Ching lung that his father was actually still in Guangzhou Both Kwai lan and Ching lung return to Guangzhou while a devastated Fa rejected by Ching lung leaves by herself Amidst facing the threats and attacks against Po Chi Lam Kwai lan and Fei hung grow closer Kwai lan not only helps Fei hung in facing Kong s duel challenge she also saves Po Chi Lam from collapsing The two begin to fall in love and Kwai lan being forty years younger than Fei hung marries him despite Ping s objections Their happiness does not last long Fei hung weak from an injury is defeated from a duel against Kong and loses his title as Guangzhou s number one martial artist Ching lung disgusted by his father s influence and still close to Fei hung and Kwai lan chooses to stay in Po Chi Lam and allows Sam shui to take his place in Lui Gar school As he watches Yuet hang and Kong s corrupted governance over Guangzhou Fei hung falls fatally ill Before he dies Fei hung teaches all his knowledge of medicine and martial arts to Kwai lan For more power Sam shui grows closer to Yuet hang s office dealings and soon meet with one of Yuet hang s strongest allies the Japanese merchant Tokugawa Kazuo When Kazuo visits Guangzhou he brings with him Fa the woman he had fallen in love with The match seemed to meet all of Fa s hopes for a relationship for Kazuo had wealth and prestigue and soon Fa becomes one of the most public and influential women in town Partially seeing her as an example and because he knew Fa would not give him any favors Sam shui marries Yuet hang s daughter Shuet kiu Kaki Leung and also becomes a spy for Kazuo Soon Sam shui gains control of all of Yuet hang s business and political jobs later becoming the co mayor of Guangzhou The Japanese merchants and fighters gain control of Guangzhou s economy and martial arts schools forcing Po Chi Lam out of business With his power secured and his enemies weak Sam shui starts to threaten and control Yuet hang s family from the shadows Kazuo who had been blackmailed by Yuet hang was more than happy to help him He felt a personal grudge against the Chinese martial arts schools for he and Fa had almost gotten married before Ching lung confessed his feelings for her Despite all that Kazuo could offer her Fa chooses a simple life with Ching lung and Kazuo was feeling particularly vindictive over his loss In an attempt to protect himself and his daughter Yuet hang tries to release information of Sam shui s secret collaborations with the Japanese to the public but is murdered by Sam shui before he could do so Kwai lan hunted by the corrupt police and Lui Kong s men forced to flee and hide in Foshan with Ching lung returns to Guangzhou and wins in a fight with the Japanese martial artists reviving the pride of Chinese martial arts Despite opposed by Lui Kong himself she hoped they could truly reunite all the martial arts school now but Lui Kong is soon murdered for his possession of Yuet hang s evidence against Sam shui He dies tragically but had successfully hidden the evidence Kwai lan knows if anyone found it Sam shui s life was forfeit and tries to convince him back on the right path The two of them have a private meeting Sam shui admits that for the sake of their sibling relationship he could let her escape but only her and she must swear to never interfere in his affairs She refuses him and both bid the other goodbye knowing one of them would soon have to die Sam shui now too invested in Japanese imperialist ambitions starts a fire to burn Po Chi Lam down to the ground in order to destroy any evidence of his wrongdoings Because of this the evidence was discovered and although Fa took a bullet wound the proof was given to the national government Forced to flee for his life Sam shui demands that Kazuo help him escape to Japan Kazuo angry that Sam shui had caused the Japanese residents in Guangzhou so much trouble in his attempts to discredit political enemies ends up shooting Sam shui instead However Sam shui survives and almost manages to escape Guangzhou when he boards a train with Shuet kiu Perhaps to seduce her once more or perhaps because he did retain some humility Sam shui apologizes to her for all the trouble he had caused and admits that had she not been Yuet hang s daughter he would have been kinder to her Shuet kiu tearfully admits that she had been happiest with him but now that he had caused the death of her father and unborn child she could no longer forgive him She stabs him to death in the train the bloody scene was the last thing Kwai lun will see of her remaining family since Shuet kiu had told her she didn t want any relation to Sam shui s relatives Kwai lun moves into Hong Kong meets up again with Ching lung and Fa and opens a school of martial arts unprecedented of the time she takes in students of all ages and background By doing this she hopes to spread martial arts out to the rest of the world fulfilling Wong Fei hung s hopes of the future

Country:  Hong Kong

Released: 2011

Genre: Action Historical Martial Arts

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