JET
LI's FEARLESS is arriving on region two DVD from 23rd October 2006.
YUANJIA
(Jet Li) wanted to learn martial arts. His FATHER (Collin Chou) was a great fighter,
but he did not want his son to follow in his footsteps and refused to teach him.
This only made Yuanjia even more determined to learn and with the help of his
friend, NONG JINSUN (Dong Yong), Yuanjia sets out to teach himself how to fight.
Yuanjia throws
himself into training, fight followed fight and victory followed victory until
he became known as a skilled and powerful fighter. But as his fame grew, so did
his pride. Yuanjia had become an arrogant hothead who was always spoiling for
a fight. When one of Yuanjia’s young apprentices is supposedly injured by
a master named Chin. Yuanjia forces Chin to fight him and kills him with no remorse.
Only when he returns home does Yuanjia discover that his victory has cost him
the lives of the two people he loves most.
Crazed
with grief and shame, Yuanjia flees Tianjin, no longer caring whether he lives
or dies. But just as he is ready to give up all hope, he is saved by Grandma Sun
and her blind granddaughter, MOON (Betty Sun), who bring him back to the idyllic
village where they live. Slowly he begins to find peace with the world.
Back
in Tianjin, an American strongman named O’BRIEN (Nathan Jones) is making
headlines by defeating China’s fighters. Yuanjia challenges the hulking wrestler,
and beats him easily. This startles members of the Foreign Chambers of Commerce,
who worry that Yuanjia’s victory would fan the flames of anti-Western sentiment
in the Chinese people. They hatch a plan to humiliate Yuanjia by pitching him
against four fighters representing the four major foreign powers in China.
The battle of the
century begins! A British boxer, a Spanish swordsman, a Belgian soldier –
three formidable fighters step into the ring, and one after another, Yuanjia defeats
them all. But the Chamber of Commerce has been saving the best until last. The
Japanese challenger, ANNO
TANAKA
(Nakamura Shidou) is by far the most skilled competitor. As the two men stand
face to face in the arena, the thousand-strong audience waits with baited breath.
What happened that day in September, 1910, is something that nobody would ever
forget!
