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"When your life is at its most desperate, the only thing you can trust in yourself is your own strength." After losing a pivotal match, a professional mixed martial artist finds himself on the verge of losing his career and finding himself jobless. Angered by his mounting losses and doubting his own abilities, he decides to undertake a radical treatment: traditional Chinese medicine. He visits a practitioner in China and undergoes acupuncture treatment for two months. In that time he not only has completely transformed into a new fighter with entirely new skills, but also finds true self-confidence for the first time in years. In the process, he learns how to adapt to the ups and downs of a sport in any era, and discover what it means to have a true fighting spirit within oneself. "The Way of Kung Fu" was directed by Chinese-American director Daniel Lee, who went to China for three weeks in an attempt to understand martial arts. He spent a year in Beijing researching the film before shooting began in March 2010. Actors Jet Li and Bryan Leung were both sought after by Lee for his newly formed production company. "I was lucky enough to get both acting legends," said Lee, who wanted the pair for their experience in martial arts films and their experience with action sequences. "And they did not disappoint. Both of them embraced the action festival that was the movie." During pre-production, Lee bonded with his lead bad guy for the film Jet Li. The two have become close friends since attending a martial arts film festival in Beijing, and Lee described Li as "an artist who has been overshadowed by his opponents". The two met during another Chinese-American director's visit to China. Li said of working with Lee, "The script fascinated me from the beginning. I believed there was a good story there...I enjoy doing projects that bring me into a different artistic world, place me into a different character. I like to explore." He had met the director four years earlier through a mutual friend and they soon became friends. Li insisted on playing a villain after seeing a rough cut of the film. He wanted to play the "bad guy for a change", and felt that he had been "politically correct" for many years in his career. Leung, an accomplished martial artist himself, said that he was attracted by both Li's large stature as well as Lee's vision as a director. He said, "I felt very good working with Jet because I think we have similar values." Leung added that he enjoyed diving into character after diving into martial arts roles in several films. "It was an opportunity for me to be involved in a film that showed the whole process, from learning the martial art to executing it to creating the stunt sequences. I didn't think about how much work it would be until I started doing it, but because of my personal experience with martial arts, I knew what I was getting into." Dozens of real fighters fleshed out the cast. Mixed martial arts fighter Sambo Aniefiok appeared as one of Li's henchmen. Closer to home, two other Hong Kong stunt men also worked on set: Black Eagle Stunt Team member Toby Parks and Dragon Team Stunt Team member Cheung Chung-ping. cfa1e77820
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