Warriors Of Virtue is a 1997 Chinese/Japanese-American film directed by Ronny Yu. It is in English, Japanese and Cantonese. Although commercially unsuccessful and critically panned, a sequel, Warriors of Virtue: The Return to Tao, was made in 2002.
The protagonist Ryan is introduced in the first scene of the movie, wherein he is reading martial arts comics in his bathroom. His mother leaves for work, leaving him home alone. The scene changes to a...
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Warriors Of Virtue is a 1997 Chinese/Japanese-American film directed by Ronny Yu. It is in English, Japanese and Cantonese. Although commercially unsuccessful and critically panned, a sequel, Warriors of Virtue: The Return to Tao, was made in 2002.
The protagonist Ryan is introduced in the first scene of the movie, wherein he is reading martial arts comics in his bathroom. His mother leaves for work, leaving him home alone. The scene changes to a kitchen in a Chinese restaurant, which Ryan enters, supposedly on his way to school. After a brief confrontation with the head Chef, his friend the restaurant's owner Ming takes Ryan to his (Ming's) room and gives him a book, which he claims to be a 'Manuscript for Tao', the five elements of Chinese mythology. Ryan tells Ming he has enough self-help books from his mom but takes the book. It is revealed that Ryan has a metal splint on his leg, portraying a disability keeping him from walking properly, which reduces his self-esteem.
Later, as...
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