Product DescriptionMost kung fu epics succeed or fail on the spectacle of their fight scenes, but Chinese TV movie First of Fury: Sworn Revenge is more engaging because of its rapidly paced story. After his family is murdered by marauding bandits, hot-headed farm boy Chen Jun (Donnie Yen from Iron Monkey and many other Hong Kong action adventures) takes his surviving little sister to the big city of Shanghai, where they get caught up in a web of gangsters, corrupt businessmen, and mysterious women. The mix of historical epic and sheer melodrama, with its dizzying changes of fortune, is like a kung fu version of Charles Dickens. The narrative loses some steam in the second half (of almost four hours), when Chen Jun joins a martial arts school that gets torn apart by envy and pride, but Yen remains engaging and the action comes regularly. --Bret Fetzer - Actors: Donnie Yen, Yee-Man Man, Eddy Ko, Chi-Wing Lau
- Director: Shiu-Kee Lung
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
- Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language (Original Language): English
- Language (Subtitled): English
- Region Code: 1
- Release Date: 2002-04-30
- Running Time: 120 minutes
- Theatrical Release Date: 1995
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