Spain title: Héroe de Kung Fu Russian title: Мастер кунг-фу Original title: Gongfu xia – 功夫侠
Alternative titles: Kung Fu Hero | Gong Fu Xia | Кунг-фу-мен
Action movie – China Production year: 2010 Movie length: 87 minutes
Director: Ying Ning, Cheung-Yan Yuen Writer: Daxing Zhang, Tiger Hu Chen, Wang Qian Cinematograph: Sean O’Dea
Movie description:
Yunnan province, southern China, the present day. Martial artist Chen Ping works in a shop in the tourist town of Dalongwan (Big Dragon Valley), Yunshan municipality. One evening his boss Wu San, on the run from some criminal associates he’s double-crossed, drops off a hamper at the shop. Inside, Chen Ping finds an eight-year-old American boy, Christopher. Wu San is killed by his associates, led by Hama, who then come looking for Christopher at the shop. Chen Ping temporarily escapes with the boy, but next day the kidnappers, joined by their leader Susan, return. Chen Ping and Christopher flee again, and Susan, pretending to be his mother, asks the help of the local police in finding him. Chen Ping and Christopher hide out with an English teacher from Beijing, Liu Jie, who helps them. Christopher is, in fact, the son of multi-millionaire John Schmidt and was kidnapped by Susan, his tutor, and Hama, his bodyguard, while attending a cousin’s birthday in Burma; he was then smuggled across the border into China by Wu San, who betrayed them to make some extra money. Schmidt’s assistant, Sean, who is secretly working for Susan, tips off the kidnappers that Schmidt and his wife are flying to Port City to rescue their son. Meanwhile, Chen Ping, Christopher and Liu Jie go on the run from both the kidnappers and the local police.