Heroes of the East (1978)

- Country: Hong Kong
- Action Director: Lau Kar-leung
- Directed by: Lau Kar-leung
- Starring: Cheng Kang-yeh, Cheng Miu, Gordon Liu Chia-hui, Lau Kar-leung, Norman Chu Siu-keung, Yasuaki Kurata, Yuko Mizuno
A light, domestic drama turns into a battle for national pride in this masterpiece from Lau Kar-leung – a wry, empathetic study into Chinese and Japanese fighting systems.
Privileged kung fu student Ah To (Gordon Liu) is arranged to be married to the daughter of one of his father’s Japanese business associates. He initially feigns illness as a ruse to have the wedding postponed, but Koda (Yuko Mizuno) turns out to be a stunner, so he changes his mind. Koda is also a karate nut who quickly moves all of her Japanese weaponry into the house and starts smashing through the …
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