Young Donnie Yen and Director Jet Li Both Land on Hi-YAH!
Well Go USA's martial arts streaming channel adds Jet Li's Born to Defence and the first episode of Donnie Yen's 1994 series The Kung Fu Master on Friday 23 October.
Hi-YAH!, the martial arts streaming channel run by Well Go USA, adds two older titles on Friday 23 October: Jet Li's Born to Defence and the first episode of Donnie Yen's 1994 TV series The Kung Fu Master, according to the channel's October schedule as published by City on Fire.
Born to Defence was Li's first film as a director, and he stars in it too. Set after the Second World War, it has him as a veteran who comes home to China and finds American sailors abusing local people, until their actions push him to fight back. Hi-YAH!'s artwork for it shows Li in boxing gloves.
The Kung Fu Master was made for Hong Kong's ATV, with Yen as the martial artist Hung Hei Gun. He comes home after eight years away, grows frustrated with his father, who works for the Qing government, and a local dispute pulls him into a challenge against a powerful fighter. Nick Cheung also stars. Episodes arrive weekly, and in episode two, on 30 October, Hung Hei Gun rescues members of the anti-Qing Sun Moon Society and says he wants to join them.
Earlier in the month the channel added Southern Shaolin and the Fierce Buddha Warriors, a Hi-YAH! Original starring Louis Fan, and it is also running the 2010 TVB series A Fistful of Stances week by week.
Hi-YAH! costs $3.99 a month after a seven-day free trial. Its page spells the film Born To Defence while the title on its artwork says Born To Defense, so either search should find it.
