Gallants

A young man from a property firm is sent out to a small town. His job is to look into a dispute: there is a teahouse, and a rival martial arts school is leaning on the old men there to sell it. The teahouse was once Master Law's kung fu academy. Law has been in a coma for thirty years. Then he wakes up. His memory is gone but his fighting is exactly where he left it, and once he learns what has been going on he involves himself. Derek Kwok and Clement Cheng directed it together, with Chen Kuan-tai, Bruce Leung and Teddy Robin. It is shot in the language of the Hong Kong fight comedies of the sixties and seventies. It was named best film at the Hong Kong Film Awards.