Watch The Master

This 1989 film (not to be confused with the 2012 drama of the same name) was directed by Tsui Hark (Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate) and stars Jet Li, Jerry Trimble, Tuen Wah and Crystal Kwok. The story revolves around a notorious and vicious gang lead by kung fu criminal Johhny (Jerry Trimble) who is going around and shutting down local martial art schools in Los Angeles. When the masters of the local schools refuse to close the gang employs any means neccessary, even violence, to force them to close.

When one of the local masters is viciously beaten, nearly to death, his young student who has just arrived after a long stay in Hong Kong, must track down his master's attackers and find out just why they want the schools shut down so badly.