The screen goes dark. The title card appears: Introducing JACKIE CHAN as Flying Sparrow.
One year later. A tiny, run-down cinema in Mong Kok. The Crimson Blade is finally finished—with real footage shot before the chaos, and new scenes added by a grateful (and terrified) Mr. Ko, who now works as Ah Long’s assistant. jackie chan 1st movie
The climax of The Crimson Blade is scheduled for a midnight shoot at the old Kowloon Wharf. The script says Ah Long’s character faces twenty assassins and wins by using the environment—ladders, ropes, fish barrels. But Ah Long arrives to find no camera crew. Instead, The Viper’s men are loading crates onto a boat. And Mr. Ko has a real gun. The screen goes dark
He’s the “human ragdoll” on the set of Raging Storm , a cheap swordplay film starring the arrogant but popular actor, Master Feng. After a grueling 14-hour day where Ah Long breaks two ribs doing a fall that Feng refused to do, he’s eating cold rice alone behind the studio. An old prop master, Uncle Li, hands him a script. A tiny, run-down cinema in Mong Kok
He smiles nervously. “Cut,” he whispers. “We’re doing a retake.”
In 1970s Hong Kong, a stubborn young stuntman named Ah Long gets his first leading role in a low-budget martial arts film, only to discover that the "movie" is a cover for a real gang war—and his only weapons are his wits, his bruises, and a broken fan.
Ah Long looks at the broken fan in his hand. Then at the warehouse: hanging hooks, a pile of bamboo scaffolding poles, a cart of live eels, and twenty armed thugs.