Kung Fu League

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Kung-fu Kingdom News Articles Reviews Interviews Profiles Videos Hall of Fame Virtual Internship SHOP About Us Home » Reviews » Movies » Kung Fu League (2018) Kung Fu League (2018) Leon Xu November 11, 2019 Movies, Reviews Kung Fu League 2018 Kung Fu Kingdom 770x472 With the Marvel films popularizing the idea of crossovers, it was only a matter of time before it happened with legends of kung fu cinema. Director Jeffrey Lau (best known for his comedies with Stephen Chow) assembles four of the greatest kung fu icons in one film: "Kung Fu League", featuring Wong Fei-hung, Ip Man, Huo Yuanjia, and Chen Zhen and transports them to modern times. Lau has a ball with the fish-out-of-water, fourth-wall-breaking humor in this action-comedy where these four kung fu greats must help train a young boy to win a martial arts tournament and maybe even win the heart of his dream girl!Trailer Cast Two actors reprise their roles among the aforementioned legendary kung fu masters. Vincent Zhao as Wong Fei-hung from the fourth and fifth films of the Once Upon a Time in China series and Dennis To as Ip Man from "The Legend is Born: Ip Man."Danny Chan Kwok-Kwan plays Chen Zhen, a fictional character first made popular by Bruce Lee in Fist of Fury. Taiwanese-American actor and martial artist Andy On portrays Huo Yuanjia and Chen Hsin-hung plays Fei Ying Xiong, the film's protagonist who is dismayed over his unsuccessful attempts to win over his crush. Madina Memet plays Bao'er, the girl in question.Plot Cartoonist, Fei Ying Xiong, longs to confess his feelings to the love of his life, Bao'er, when he finishes drawing his first comic book on his birthday, but he isn't wealthy by any stretch of the imagination. Feeling dismayed, he wishes that the world had heroes that would help the needy, just like in the movies.Let me see your war face Let me see your war face Kung fu masters get techy Kung fu masters get techy Never Give Up Never Surrender Never Give Up Never Surrender His wish comes true, as four kung fu masters from Chinese history arrive in contemporary times. Hilarity ensues when the four masters try to get acclimated and figure out their current situation. They find Fei Ying, who explains that he wants to win a martial arts tournament carrying a grand prize of 30 million RMB. The four masters agree to train him so that he may win, hoping that helping him with his wish will return them all home.