History Film / LegendOfTheFistTheReturnOfChenZhen

--> '''Master Liu:''' Don't give me that crap! I held your job once! A discussion with your boss... a discussion with your boss means ''[[PrecisionFStrike SHIT]]''!

* GroinAttack: Chen Zen did this more than once. In fact, the final dojo battle is kicked off when one of Chinkaraishi's lieutenant decides to get a bit too cocky and try to intimidate Chen Zen... only for Chen Zen to deliver a flurry of punches and kicks on him, flip him over, and shove a fist through the unfortunate guy's crotch. [[UndignifiedDeath Which kills him]].

* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: General Zeng's backstory mirrors that of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_Hsueh-liang Chang Hsueh-liang]], the son of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Zuolin General Chang Tso-lin]], who (much like Zeng's father) colluded with the Japanese to retain control of [[UsefulNotes/{{Manchuria}} the Northeast]] in RealLife.

* FightingWithChucks: Well, this is the same Chen Zen as portrayed by Bruce Lee back in Film/FistOfFury, once again Chen whips out a pair of chucks and used them to deliver one smackdown after another in the ending.

* KnifeNut: Chen Zen uses bayonets rather skillfully in the opening scene, throwing the blades at German soldiers or using them to carve Germans like turkeys.

Taking place in an AlternateContinuity, Chen Zen had actually faked his death at the end of ''Fist of Fury'' (despite getting shot by a firing squad at the end of the film) and have since escaped to Europe. Eight years later, when the first World War broke out in Europe [[note]]Which immediately makes it a separate continuity since the events of Fury are set several years AFTER World War 1[[/note]], Chen Zen made his way back to Shanghai, now under Japanese occupation. Joining the local resistance force, Chen Zen is determined to finish what he had started years ago, to liberate the Chinese from Imperial Japanese rule. Taking on the alias of "Masked Warrior", a mysterious black-clad hero, Chen Zen will single-handedly take on the Imperial Japanese, against the local military governor, Colonel Chikaraishi.

Taking place in an AlternateContinuity, Chen Zen had actually faked his death at the end of ''Fist of Fury'' (despite getting shot by a firing squad at the end of the film) and have since escaped to Europe. Eight years later, when the first World War broke out in Europe, Chen Zen made his way back to Shanghai, now under Japanese occupation. Joining the local resistance force, Chen Zen is determined to finish what he had started years ago, to liberate the Chinese from Imperial Japanese rule. Taking on the alias of "Masked Warrior", a mysterious black-clad hero, Chen Zen will single-handedly take on the Imperial Japanese, against the local military governor, Colonel Chikaraishi.

* MenOfSherwood: The LaResistance members who performed the night raid to rescue Chen Zen. They manage to sneak in and kill several Japanese guards and lieutenants, and even blow up half of the entire Japanese base in the process. [[spoiler: However, RealityEnsues, because they didn't evacuate Shanghai like the rest of the resistance members, they were summarily caught by the Japanese and publicly executed]].

Taking place in an AlternateContinuity, Chen Zen had actually faked his death at the end of ''Fist of Fury'' (despite getting shot by a firing squad at the end of the film) and have since escaped to Europe. Eight years later, when the first World War broke out in Europe, Chen Zen made his way back to Shanghai, now under Japanese occupation. Joining the local resistance force, Chen Zen is determined to finish what he had started years ago, to liberate the Chinese from Imperial Japanese rule. Taking on the alias of "Black Mask", a mysterious black-clad hero, Chen Zen will single-handedly take on the Imperial Japanese, against the local military governor, Colonel Chikaraishi.

* BattleInTheRain: Chen Zen's first battle as Black Mask, when saving General Liu from a legion of Japanese assassins waiting to ambush him outside a nightclub. Using the rain as cover, Chen manage to take down ALL the assassins without anyone, not even Liu's bodyguards, seeing his face.

* ContrastMontage: One featured halfway through the film, where Chen Zen – disguised as the Black Mask – attempts to rescue as many leaders of the LaResistance as he can, intersect with Japanese assassins led by TheDragon killing as many members as possible. Sometimes both montage sequences will cross over, so we get Chen Zen fighting off the Japanese’s assassins and leaving their bodies behind in place of their targets.

* DominoMask: Part of Chen Zen’s disguise as Black Mask, in a rather blatant reference to [[Radio/TheGreenHornet Kato]], previously portrayed by Bruce Lee who also plays Chen Zen.

''Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen'' is a 2010 Hong Kong MartialArtsMovie directed by Andrew Lau, starring ''Creator/DonnieYen'' as Chen Zen, the same character portrayed by ''Creator/BruceLee'' from ''Film/FistOfFury''.

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[[caption-width-right:350:When rebooting ''one'' Creator/BruceLee character isn't enough...]]

* GottaKillThemAll: Inverted; Chen Zen managed to retrieve the list of collaborators and sympathizers which are marked for death by the Japanese, and have to rescue and evacuate as many names on the list before the Japanese can kill every one of them all.

* ContinuityNod: This is a sequel to Film/FistOfFury, where Donnie Yen takes over the role formerly played by Bruce Lee, so plenty of scenes of that movie gets a mention. Like Chen Zen once again using nunchucks in battle, smashing a signboard that says “Sick Men of Asia”, fighting an entire dojo of Japanese karatekas and shouting at the top of his voice, “The Chinese are not the sick men of Asia!”

* WalkingShirtlessScene

* MomentOfWeakness

* AlmostDeadGuy
* AlternateContinuity

* {{Expy}}:
* FakingTheDead:

* GroinAttack
* IconOfRebellion

* KnifeNut

* RapeAsDrama

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated
* DominoMask

* BadBoss
* BattleInTheRain:

* BitchInSheepClothing: Kiki is a ManipulativeBitch who, more than once, uses her charms to trick leaders of the resistance into leaking vital information to her causing every single one of them to be killed, and even managed to seduce Chen Zen and getting him captured.

* ColdBloodedTorture

* DelayedExplosion

* {{Expy}}