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女拳
Following his defeat by Wong Fei-hung in a duel, Guangzhou’s number one kung fu master Lui Kong contracts leprosy and runs off in secret. Putting all the blame on Fei-hung, Lui Ching-lung, who knows nothing about martial arts, is resolved to seek revenge for his father. Surprisingly, Fei-hung offers to teach Lui Ching-lung the renowned kung fu system and urges him to come back for revenge when he has picked up all the martial arts techniques. When Fei-hung encounters two siblings – Mok Kwai-lan and Yau Sam-shui – in a restaurant, and they are introduced to Ching-lung, this marks the beginning of a complicated story of a love polygon.
MOK KWAI-LAN has been looking for her sworn brother YAU SUM-SHUI, who is a waiter of Fook Yue Kui restaurant, everywhere. She finds him gambling in an illegal boxing gymnasium at last. SHUI has bet on dark horse LUI CHING-LUNG, nicknamed the IRON MONEY. He is on his way to collect his prize money, but somebody else picks up his stub. He has a fight with that person. LAN calms them down. She gets to know LUNG later when she is trying to help him. MOK PING, SHUI’s adoptive father, is the tea master of Fook Yue Kui. He disapproves SHUI’s personality and gambling habit. LAN and her colleagues have gone to Baiyun Mountain to take spring water. They become enemies with Guangzhou East Governor TONG YUET-HANG’s men on their way back. Beijing Senator KANG YIK-TIN is visiting Guangzhou soon. HANG invites kung fu master WONG FEI-HUNG to perform in front of TIN but HUNG turns him down……
HUNG stops his students from teaching WAI a good lesson. WAI leaves Po Chi Lam after HUNG has refused to fight with him. LUNG has left his medicine. LAN takes it to his home. A man with leprosy attacks her as she enters the house. The man is LUI KONG, LUNG’s father. Beijing is constructing a railway. Local residents have been forced to leave their homeland because of the construction. HUNG’s second son, HON-YIP, is a journalist. He asks TIN about this on the reception for him when he visits Guangzhou. What is more, he reports later that TIN’s cousin is the contractor of the project. HANG hates HUNG even more. LUNG cannot afford his father’s medicine. LAN stops him from stealing and takes him to Po Chi Lam to ask for the help of HUNG. The police close down the newspaper YIP works for and put its staff in prison. HANG sets YIP free. HUNG pleads HANG to release other people as well.
YIP tells HUNG his colleagues have been released. He blames HUNG for dealing with bigwigs, saying that they can settle the matter without them. HUNG does not say a word about the truth. LAN sees HUNG talking to WAI when she is having late supper with SHUI. LAN and SHUI follow HUNG and WAI to the countryside, where the two kung fu masters have a fight. Their techniques take the two young people’s breath away. LAN is very interested in learning kung fu. The next day, some bullies beat LAN and SHUI. PING settles the matter with all his saving. SHUI leaves angrily, as PING forbids him from learning kung fu. A beautiful woman scolds a couple on the street. Fook Yue Kui is holding a wedding banquet. SHUI is surprised to see that KWAI FA, the bride, is the beautiful woman he saw the day before. LAN and SHUI leave home early to watch the students of Po Chi Lam practice kung fu.
LING WAN-KAI bails YIP out. When they are home, HUNG requests YIP to quit his job. YIP accuses HUNG of dealing with bigwigs. The father and son end up in discord. HANG reports to the mayor that he has closed all the illegal casinos in Guangzhou. The mayor commends on his good work done, saying that he will make a very good potential mayor candidate. LAN is taking medicine to LUNG’s when she hears someone calling other people to deal with a leprosy man. She makes a beeline for LUNG’s place and saves him and his father before too late. LUNG carries KONG on his back to Po Chi Lam. When he wakes up, KONG is surprised to know that HUNG has saved him. Instead of thanking HUNG, he blames him for breaking up his family. When he finishes, he leaves with LUNG. KONG tells LUNG how he was defeated by HUNG in a duel and forced to leave Guangzhou many years ago. KONG is nowhere to be found the next day morning when LUNG wakes up……
The deadline for repaying FA’s debt is approaching but SHUI is still $250 short. A customer is not satisfied with the Sweet and Sour Sparerib of Fook Yue Kui. FA bets FOOK $250 to see who will cook the best Sweet and Sour Sparerib. It turns out she is a superb cook. FOOK employs her as second chef. HANG has been invited to make a speech at a Buddhist Festival event. He is not happy when he learns that the organizer has invited HUNG to host the plaque unveiling ceremony. LUNG throws a hammer at HUNG in order to seek revenge for his father. He is soon suppressed. In addition to interceding for LUNG, HUNG apologizes to him openly for insulting his father many years ago. HANG badmouths HUNG but LUNG is not influenced. FA has prepared some dishes for FOOK but he kicks her out of the treasurer’s office. The illegal casinos in Guangzhou have been very active lately……
FA invites FOOK to have congee in Li Wan by writing him a note. YUET-FUNG, his wife, follows him to Li Wan preparing to catch him red-handed. When she breaks into the room, she is surprised to see SHUI is also there. SHUI lies that he is having a date with FA in order to help FOOK out. LUNG is being bullied by some hooligans. LAN goes up to his help but she alone cannot fight them off. HUNG staves them off. HUNG shows LUNG the renowned LUI’s kung fu system and tells him to come back for revenge when he has picked up all the martial arts techniques. The hooligans have come again. PING defeats them one by one. Not until then do LAN and SHUI know that he is a kung fu expert. FA requests FUNG to introduce her to high officials. She tells her frankly it is her wish is marry a rich man. HUNG would like to take SHUI as student. He calls on PING at the restaurant for this reason.
PING refuses to let SHUI learn kung fu from HUNG. SHUI leaves home in anger. LUNG works as a coolie at the pier. LAN visits him and then watches him practice kung fu. Although YIP manages to sneak into the accountant’s house, he fails to take away his ledgers. The accountant and his wife are attacked at train station when they are fleeing Guangzhou. PING finally agrees to let SHUI learn kung fu with HUNG. He also decides to teach LAN the Mok’s Fist. A few men break into the newspaper YIP works for and turns it upside down. YIP’s colleague is injured in saving YIP. Thanks to HUNG and YIP, the accountant’s life is spared. With the information provided by the accountant, HUNG and YIP risk their life to get the ledgers. They find out that the local government is collaborating with Guangzhou’s illegal casinos.
HUNG pays a visit to the Chun Wah Daily, which has just resumed business. CHENG-CHI, the Chief of the Daily, tells him the paper is able to re-open with the support of Guangzhou East Governor TUNG MING. Meanwhile, HANG and the media have arrived. HANG congratulates YIP, though he has never hated HUNG so much. A woman is selling her daughter on the street. FA stops her, for the girl reminds her of her own miserable childhood. She therefore sympathizes with LUNG. SHUI and LAN visit Po Chi Lam. LUNG has come to challenge HUNG to a contest. HUNG turns him down. HANG visits a leprosy hospital with a western doctor. He is surprised to see KONG, who he thinks has died. FA bets that SHUI will not be able to invite any high officials or influential figures to his apprenticeship inauguration ceremony. The mayor shows up at the ceremony under SHUI’s crafty scheme……
HUNG is having tea with YIP. FOOK shows up with PING. PING wishes that HUNG would take SHUI as his student. HUNG will not change his mind though. HUNG and YIP leave the restaurant for the train station, where they are picking up HON-BONG, HUNG’s eldest son. They brush past KONG, who under the arrangement of HANG has returned to Guangzhou. SHUI is on his knees when HUNG and his sons get back to Po Chi Lam, pleading for HUNG’s forgiveness. HUNG pays no attention to him though. YIP intercedes for SHUI and HUNG finally agrees to forgive SHUI. FA has helped LUNG. She demands him to treat her to dinner for her help. She also volunteers to teach him to read and write. SHUI’s friends throw a celebration for him at a restaurant the evening before the apprenticeship inauguration ceremony. He is so drunk that he picks up a fight with someone. YIP goes up to check out what is going on. He dies in HUNG’s lab as HUNG arrives.
FA hears people blaming SHUI for YIP’s death when she is having dinner with LUNG. She goes up to SHUI’s help at once. HUNG is utterly devastated. LUNG is impressed by his love for YIP. LEE FAN, younger brother of PIU-HUNG, second wife of HANG, has been involved in YIP’s death. He asks PI-HUNG to help him flee. PIU-HUNG threatens TSUI HING-TO to give her a hand. Unwilling to see SHUI arrested, FA helps him escape. She discusses with LAN and PING to see how they can help SHUI flee Guangzhou. Meanwhile, they hear their neighbors quarreling. It turns out that LEE MING, a good friend of SHUI’s, is leaving Guangzhou hurriedly too. According to him, SHUI has nothing to do with YIP’s death. BON spots SHUI on YIP’s funeral and gives him a severe beating up.
The inquest is held today and SHUI is convicted of murder. His execution will be carried out three days later. KWONG, FAN’s follower, prays for blessings for his unborn son at a temple with his wife. LAN and FA see them. Believing KWONG is in the know of SHUI’s frame-up, LAN calls on KWONG’s house with FA. They tell KWONG’s wife god will not bless her son if KWONG does not tell the truth. Meanwhile, they hear about SHUI’s execution. LUNG informs HUNG about SHUI’s execution. HUNG remains silent. LAN is pleading KWONG to do SHUI a favor when his wife goes into labor suddenly. MING appears at the execution ground, claiming he has fresh evidence that can prove SHUI’s innocence.
Paying no attention to his doctor’s advice, KONG visits Po Chi Lam. SUET-KIU is cycling in the countryside. She takes KONG to Po Chi Lam, believing he is a friend of HUNG. By the time HANG learns that KONG is visiting HUNG, KONG has already returned to the villa. KONG has decided to let go of his grudge against HUNG. He tells HANG to look for LUNG. HANG is disappointed. His life spared, SHUI is sentenced to prison for three months for creating trouble in public area. He gets severely bitten up in jail. A kid kidnaper nicknamed MONKEY has taken away FA and LAN’s neighbor TAI-DI. FA and LAN find her, but MONKEY has escaped. FA tells LUNG her background so as to console DI. PONG has been arrested for stealing lychees. The police escort him to Po Chi Lam. Distressed, HUNG tells UNCLE KAU to send BONG back to Foshan.
BONG has gone missing. KAI has failed to find him. As he is reporting this to HUNG, LAN appears with BONG. FA runs into LUNG when she is taking DI to an orphanage and so he goes with them. KONG looks for LUNG in their old house but LUNG is not there. He goes into a church afterwards. KONG does not agree with what the pastor says about everyone can let go of his hatred, but KIU’s explanation changed his mind. HUNG sees BONG stealing lychees, but he finds out later he has wrongly accused his son all along. KONG volunteers to renovate the church. He shares with KIU his joy. What is more, he tells HANG he has let go of his hatred. HANG sees KIU’s name on his bible. According to HANG, LUNG has gone to Hong Kong. KONG is visiting him under HANG’s arrangement. However, he learns from HUNG later that LUNG is still in Guangzhou.
HUNG and KONG go looking for LUNG. The pier is on fire. KONG is very worried. LUNG and his colleagues are being buried under goods. HUNG goes to their rescue. HUNG apologizes to KONG for humiliating him twenty years go. Surprisingly, KONG accepts his apology readily. The mayor is visiting Japan soon. Before he goes, he calls for a meeting, during which he announces that MING will act for him while he is away. HANG is displeased. BONG visits LAN at the restaurant and helps her out whenever he is free. HUNG can see the positive influence of LAN on BONG. SHUI has been released. PING did not know about the cuts and bruises on his body until then. SHUI resumes his job at the restaurant. He plucks up enough courage to apologize to HUNG. Quoting people in the know, MING announces at a meeting that a rat plague has spread through the city. A doctor tells HANG plague cases have been recorded in Guangzhou.
Fook Yue Kui has very few customers today. A customer tells FOOK the newspaper report of the outbreak of rat plague. LUNG has contracted plague and fainted. His colleague informs KONG. FA takes herbal medicine to LUNG. Blood serum can treat plague disease but it costs a hundred dollars. After much effort, FA has finally managed to collect a hundred dollars. Unfortunately, the money is stolen at the hospital. LUNG has been treated with blood serum. FA visits him. LAN can see that FA is in love with him. The treasurer accuses SHUI of stealing money. It is found out later SHUI is innocent. SHUI hands in his resignation to FOOK. MA YUE-TSAN and other friends visit LUNG. They hope LUNG can put them up at Po Chi Lam for the time being. SHUI now works as a rickshaw puller. PIU-HUNG tells him to go back and forth so as to revenge for her brother, who has been executed……
SHUI, who smells stink, goes to the movie with FA. He proposes to her suddenly, catching her totally unprepared. KONG works as a docker. Someone appears from nowhere and takes away his goods. He does not know until later then that they are blood serum. PING says over breakfast that he regards FA as SHUI’s future wife. FA does not know whether to laugh or cry. LUNG falls when he is practicing kung fu with HUNG’s apprentices. Finding this humiliating, KONG fends them off then leaves Po Chi Lam with LUNG. No sooner has the next batch of blood serum arrived then someone throws a grenade on it. MING has no choice but puts the infected patients in isolation. KONG and LUNG are leaving Guangzhou. FA tells SHUI to give her a ride to the train station. When she gets there, she has a plague attack and faints.
SHUI takes FA away on the quiet so that she will not be isolated. HUNG confirms that FA has been infected with plague. He insists on sending her to the hospital. He also takes care of the patients in the hospital. LAN, impressed, follows suit. KIU faints as she is looking after patients. She is diagnosed with plague. KONG would like to go to Shaoguan, where there is no plague, but LUNG is opposed to the idea. TO takes KIU away and gives her blood serum in a car. LUNG and SHUI happen to see them. They deduce from this that someone is holding up blood serum. With the help of the people from Po Chi Lam, they manage to locate where the blood serum is. FA and other patients receive blood serum at last. When she comes round, FA reveals it is LUNG she loves.
The mayor calls for a meeting as soon as he has returned to Guangzhou. Having failed to keep the plague situation under control, MING claims that he will stand down. The situation of plague is finally under control. The City Hall is throwing a celebration party. Officials from the City Hall call on Po Chi Lam to invite HUNG and his apprentices to the party. SHUI is leaving Guangzhou by train. He is accused of using a fake ticket. Meanwhile, officials from the City Hall show up and invite him and LUNG to the celebration party, where they will be presented the good citizen awards. SHUI and PIU-HUNG give tit for tat to each other at the party. SHUI is taken away by her men right before the award presentation is about to begin. He misses the presentation as a result. HUNG shows up at the group photo session, accusing the government of failing to help the people of Guangzhou during the plague outbreak. HANG is hugely embarrassed……
HANG gives KONG his old house as present and encourages him to open a martial art club to counter HUNG. SHUI works as a bodyguard at a brothel. PING is very upset about this. LUNG has been waiting for KONG at Shaoguan train station for a whole day but KONG is nowhere to be seen. Dinner is ready when he returns to the inn. To FA’s huge disappointment, instead of starting to eat, he sits down to write a letter to LAN. She is upset to find out he loves LAN. LAN goes to the restaurant as told by PING. It turns out HUNG is introducing a guy to him. LUNG is excited to see LAN in Shaoguan. FA asks LAN why she has come. She tells LAN she in love with HUNG, though she herself may not know it. LUNG is surprised to know that LAN has already left. FA makes up a lie and tells him LAN has gone to Yunnan to look for SHUI.
As soon as LAN has returned to Guangzhou she heads straight to Po Chi Lam to express her feelings for HUNG. PING thinks it is unwise for her to have agreed to marry HUNG, who is old enough to be her father. HANG has invited the mayor to the opening of the Lui’s Martial Arts School. KONG is very excited. Members of the Guangzhou Martial Arts Association have come to create trouble. KONG beats them one by one. Meanwhile, SHUI offers his congratulations to KONG with a signboard that reads “Guangzhou Number One”. He also praises KONG in front of the crowd. KONG sees SHUI being beaten by the hooligans. KONG sympathizes with his fate and decides to employ him. A matchmaker has brought gifts to LAN’s house. It turns out PING is marrying LAN to the son of a grocery owner. The masters of different martial arts schools get together. SHUI appears uninvited to invite them to meet up with KONG.
