In the heat of the fight, they accidentally exchange weapons. Huo uses a sanjiegun while Tanaka uses a katana. In the first round, they fight with their weapons of choice. On September 14, 1910, Huo faces Tanaka after defeating the European challengers. The film then returns to the competition shown in the opening scenes. Before the matches, Huo meets the Japanese champion Tanaka for tea and strikes up a friendship, with the men developing a mutual respect for one another. Huo takes up the challenge, even though he will have to fight four bouts in a row. They propose a match between Huo and four foreign champions. The members of the foreign chamber of commerce fear that Huo's victories might fan anti-foreign sentiments among the Chinese people, thus becoming a disadvantage to them. In 1909, with funding from Jinsun, he founds Chin Woo Athletic Association in Shanghai. Huo's fame spreads with successive bouts against other foreign fighters. The match ends with O'Brien happily naming Huo the victor. During their match, Huo saves O'Brien from being impaled on some nails and wins his gratitude. Taking advantage of the language barrier, the Announcer deliberately mistranslates Huo's request to "He wants to kick your butt". Prior to the match, Huo requests that he and Hercules fight with honor and civility. He challenges the American wrestler, Hercules O'Brien. He apologizes to Qin's family and reconciles with Jinsun, now a businessman. In 1907, Huo returns to Tianjin and sees the changes that have taken place. Guided by their kindness, and over the years, Huo learns the value of compassion and mercy. He nearly drowns in a river but is saved by Granny Sun and her blind granddaughter, Yueci. Wracked with guilt, Huo flees Tianjin and wanders aimlessly for months. Huo becomes depressed when he learns that it was his follower who had insulted Qin's mistress, which caused Qin to beat him. Huo goes to Qin's house, where Qin's godson admits to the murders before killing himself. Qin's godson seeks vengeance and kills Huo's mother and daughter.
The confrontation escalates into a fight that ends with Qin's death. Failing to dissuade his friend from fighting and fed up with his ruthless behavior, Jinsun furiously and adamantly ends his friendship with Huo. When a rival martial arts master named Qin Lei injures one of his followers, Huo feels insulted and furiously confronts Qin on his birthday, at a restaurant owned by Huo's childhood friend, Nong Jinsun. This also leads to Huo gaining many followers and getting himself into financial trouble by spending his family's money on drinking and partying. As he becomes successful, he becomes more short-tempered and reckless and grows more arrogant and ruthless towards his opponents, unlike his late father who advocated showing mercy to opponents. As time goes by, Huo Yuanjia defeats several opponents (including Zhao's son who bullied him when he was younger) and becomes a famous martial artist in Tianjin. He practices martial arts behind his father's back. Humiliated by his father's defeat, Huo Yuanjia vows to regain the Huo family's honor and pride. Yuanjia sees his father in a match with Zhao, who dishonorably won by retaliating when Huo Endi held back a fatal blow. Watching his father fight, the young Yuanjia wants to participate, but his father is concerned about his asthma. The story is then told in an extended flashback. While waiting for the fourth match to begin, Huo remembers his father Huo Endi teaching martial arts. The film begins with Huo Yuanjia fighting and defeating three Westerners: a British boxer, a Belgian lancer, and a Spanish fencer. įearless was released on 26 January 2006 in Hong Kong, on 23 June 2006 in the United Kingdom, and on 22 September 2006 in the United States. Li stated in an interview that the film was his last wushu martial arts epic, a point also made in the film's television promotions and other publicity. It is loosely based on the life of Huo Yuanjia, a Chinese martial artist who challenged foreign fighters in highly publicized events, restoring pride and nationalism to China at a time when Western imperialism and Japanese manipulation were eroding the country in the final years of the Qing Dynasty before the birth of the Republic of China. Fearless, also known as Huo Yuanjia ( 霍元甲) in Chinese, and as Jet Li's Fearless in the United Kingdom and in the United States, is a 2006 martial arts film directed by Ronny Yu and starring Jet Li.
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