https://youtu.be/as1436gxKvA

This ten minute blockbuster treatment of the Chinese Labour Corps by the Hong Kong film industry will certainly raise a few eyebrows among historians as artistic license has been taken in abundance. Of course this is a commercial film and not an historic documentary; and commercial films are essentially produced to make money. Donnie Yen’s portrayal of the martial arts hero, fighting on behalf of the underdogs, is outstanding – if not historically accurate. This latter point is interesting because the historic context of the Chinese Labour Corps, and her betrayal at the Paris Peace Conference, is provided by way of text on the screen in the opening scenes. The information is to the point and factually pretty accurate. Although any portrayal of Chinese labourers involvement in the fighting of the war is total fiction, the audience is, nonetheless, given a short but accurate history lesson, for which we commend the film-makers. Enjoy the clip, and if you want to see how it all ends, the film’s called, “The Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen” (精武風雲－陳真).