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Born to Defense (1986)

Zhong hua ying xiong (original title)
R | | Action, War | 16 February 1986 (Hong Kong)
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Jet, a young soldier at the end of the second World War must overcome some abusive Americans who are bullying him as well as the Chinese people.

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Keith Anthony ... (voice)
Kaiming Chen
Wing Cho
... (voice)
... Jet (voice)
Peter Doyle ... (voice)
Dongyu Fan
Zhanghe Gao
... (voice) (as Jessica Gee)
Yin Geng
... (voice)
Kerry Gutierrez ... (voice)
Dean Harrington ... US Marine
Mark King ... GI Blue
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Jet, a young soldier at the end of the second World War must overcome some abusive Americans who are bullying him as well as the Chinese people. Written by Tom MacNeill

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Once Upon A Time In China A New Hero Emerged...

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Could be worse...
14 September 2005 | by – See all my reviews

Jet Li's own and uncredited adaptation of popular HK Manhua/Novel "Zhonghua Yingxiong" by Ma Yingcheng (1983), later brought to us as "A Man Called Hero" with more charismatic Ekin Cheng as leading actor. The original story had great success both in China and Hong Kong, but the little one Jet Li gained with this film -he stopped directing and moved to San Francisco- shows how much it follows the "chinese pride" stuff contained on it. Even disappointing as a simple Jet Li action movie, it proves fighting can't save the party. Jet Li stars as -wow!- Jet, a Chinese soldier back to Tsing Dao after winning against Japanese devils (sic). Our "hero" finds Tsing Dao kind of invaded by American troops, so he inevitably begins kicking some bad guys who are, of course, American. It follows some boxing fighting that would make you laugh thinking what's the story supposed to be about. Stay away if you are looking for more Hua Ying-Xiong. There's none here.
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