Dong Yong Movies

Fearless opens in Shanghai, China, circa 1910, when wushu master Huo Yuanjia (martial arts superstar Jet Li) prepares to battle one Japanese opponent, Tanaka (Shidou Nakamura), and three American opponents (Anthony de Longis, Jean-Claude Leuyer, and Brandon Rhea) in a massive tournament. The picture then cuts back to Huo's boyhood in the city of Tianjin, in North China, circa 1880, when his father forbids him from engaging in martial-arts training. He must therefore slip off and train covertly. Around 1900, Huo -- then in his twenties -- continues to fight in tournaments. His determination is such that his entire life begins to revolve around championships, and the prospect of becoming the top-ranked fighter in Tianjin turns into a die-hard obsession, despite the repeated warnings of his best friend, Nong (Dong Yong), to cut back. Huo ignores these admonitions, then turns conceited and ultimately refuses to hear an additional word of caution, until his arrogance leads to the death of a fighter and Nong's decision to abandon him as a friend. Driven into exile, Huo journeys to southeastern Asia, where he works alongside rice farmers and divests himself of conceit, then gently touches the spirit of a blind girl. When he finally returns to Tianjin, he has transformed, internally, into a different person altogether. A huge hit in Hong Kong when originally released into theaters in 2006, Fearless was often touted as Jet Li's final film in the wushu school of martial arts. The picture is based on the real-life story of Huo Yuanjia, founder of the Jingwu school of martial arts. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A cop finds himself facing a dangerous assignment, finding love, and confronting his notions about the nature of art all at once in this drama from China. Tai Lin (Pan Yueming) is a young man with a creative bent and a love of painting, but practical matters dictated that he get a "real job," and he's recently joined the police force. One day, he sees a young woman about to jump from a bridge, and he leaps in to rescue her. However, Tai Lin is informed by attractive Liu Yun (Yuan Quan) that she's an actress, and that her attempted leap was just part of a performance art project. At once embarrassed and intrigued, Tai Lin becomes aquainted with Liu Yun, and she soon asks him to help her find a man who helped save her life years before. Tai Lin's research leads him into a murder case that's gone unsolved for two decades, but at the same time the young cop isn't entirely certain that he isn't being sent on a wild goose chase in the name of performance art. Lanse Aiqing received its North American premier at the 2001 Montreal Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi