
Legacy of Rage(1986)
A man is framed for murder by his drug-dealing best friend who covets his girlfriend, leading to eight years in jail and a vow of revenge upon release.

An ex-con has spent the last ten years of his life in prison for defending the lives of his best friend and his best friend's sister. While in jail he learns to become a teacher's aide. In school he comes across these troubled teens who start hanging around a sleazy low-level triad that runs a video arcade, luring kids by exchanging games for drug running. He eventually befriends the kids pissing off the triad who gets him fired by digging up dirt on his past. But he doesn't care, he proposes to his girlfriend and she says yes but a student is still held under the grasp of the triad. So he goes back into action to try and free the kid and ridding the neighborhood of the sleazy scumbag. Can he reach the kid and change the kid's ways? Will the ex-con and his girl live happily ever after?

Simon Yam
Cheung Chi-Wing

Anita Yuen Wing-Yee
Hung

John Tang Yat-Kwan
Kit

Derek Yee
Principal Chun

Lawrence Cheng Tan-Shui
Joe

Austin Wai Tin-Chi
Brother Four

John Ching Tung
Brother Tiger
Christine Hung Hiu-Wan

Jacqueline Law Wai-Guen
Miss Ho

Dennis Chan Kwok-San
The True Hero is a action, crime film released in 1994. Directed by Joe Cheung Tung-Cho, it stars Simon Yam, Anita Yuen Wing-Yee, John Tang Yat-Kwan. An ex-con has spent the last ten years of his life in prison for defending the lives of his best friend and his best friend's sister. While in jail he learns to become a teacher's aide. In school he comes across these troubled teens who start hanging around a sleazy low-level triad that runs a video arcade, luring kids by exchanging games for drug running. He eventually befriends the kids pissing off the triad who gets him fired by digging up dirt on his past. But he doesn't care, he proposes to his girlfriend and she says yes but a student is still held under the grasp of the triad. So he goes back into action to try and free the kid and ridding the neighborhood of the sleazy scumbag. Can he reach the kid and change the kid's ways? Will the ex-con and his girl live happily ever after?
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