China – Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts: Die Mandschuren, ein Tungusenvolk aus dem nördlichen Asien, vom Befehlshaber der kaiserlichen Truppen an der Nordostgrenze ins Land gerufen, um den Bauernaufstand niederzuwerfen, haben ganz China besetzt und die Macht übernommen. Um ihre Herrschaft zu festigen, spielen sie die verschiedenen politischen Strömungen in der chinesischen Bevölkerung gegeneinander aus. Der Widerstand gegen die Unterdrücker wird vor allem von den Resten der Shaolin-Bruderschaft getragen, deren Klöster zerstört wurden und deren Führer in die Berge geflohen sind. Zwischen ihnen und den Verrätern aus den eigenen Reihen spielt sich ein blutiger Kleinkrieg ab.

1995 film

The blind Yip Man-chiu was abandoned at birth. Following the death of his foster parents, the boy is sold by his uncle Ah Sam to a blind Taoist priest, an abusive man. Running away from home, Yip is hit by a car and sent to a school for the blind by the social security workers. His talents impress the musician Siu Kwong and wins him a place in a music school for the blind. There he is joined by fellow students Lung Kwok-kei, a runaway child with an abusive stepmother, Chow Kuen, an abandoned child found on a train, and Cheung Kin-ching, an avid music lover sent to the school by her loving well-to-do father. The four children blossom into accomplished musicians under the tutelage of Siu and his wife and together with the less fortunate others, form an orchestra which earns a reputation for excellence.

Miriam Yeung plays a half-Chinese who represents her father (a Shaolin monk who defected to Japan after falling in love with a Japanese) at a martial arts tournament. What she really wants is to experience first love (with Ekin Cheng, a marketing executive) and become a movie star. Both which are fulfilled in her stay in Hong Kong.