Petaling Street Warriors - 2011

Petaling Street Warriors (Chinese: 大英雄•小男人) is a film co-directed by James Lee Thim Heng and Sampson Yuen Choi-Hin through Malaysian production company, Juita Entertainment,a subsidiary of Juita Viden. Jointly presented by Juita Viden and Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC), it is the first period kungfu comedy to be produced locally in Malaysia and Singapore, with famed action choreographer from Hong Kong, Yuk-Sing Ma, who have worked on Hong Kong and China's blockbusters, such as Storm Riders 2 and A Chinese Fairy Tale.

Plot:-
The film is inspired by a controversial legend about Emperor Jianwen of Ming Dynasty, who is rumored to have fled to Southeast Asia when he was dethroned in the year 1402 by his own uncle, Zhu Di, who later became Emperor Yongle. Some historians have even argued that the true purpose of the Voyages of Zheng He - which began three years after Emperor Yongle's ascension to throne - was not for the sake of trade or the promotion of national pride, but to seek out Emperor Jianwen who was suspected to be hiding in the region.It is interesting to note that during the seven voyages, Zheng He's fleets had stopped in Malacca (now a Malaysian state) for five times. In fact, Malacca served as a transit centre for replenishment of supplies for his fleets.

The sheer size of Zheng He's fleets is baffling. For example, the 1405 expedition consisted of 27,800 men and a fleet of 62 treasure ships supported by approximately 190 smaller ships. The subsequent voyages were of comparable size.If indeed Zheng He was leading his men in the greatest manhunt of all time, then the puzzling question is why Emperor Yongle would want to pursue a dethroned emperor for over 28 years. These intriguing facts and speculations thus become the basis of the story of Petaling Street Warriors.

Set against the background of Petaling Street in 1908, Petaling Street Warriors tells the story of a pair of married couple, Shi Duyao (Mark Lee) and Zhung Lichun (Yeo Yann Yann), who operate a Hokkien mee stall in Petaling Street, where they suffer from the inefficiency of the colonial government and suppression by the Chinese gangsters. While trying to impress his wife, Duyao encounters a mysterious yet strikingly beautiful kungfu expert, Xiaoju (Chris Tong), who claims that Duyao is a descendant of the missing Emperor Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty. To stop a group of Qing warriors and Japanese ninjas from robbing a treasure map that Duyao doesn't even know he has, Lichun and her cousin, Liu Kun (Namewee), finally reveal their kungfu, turning Petaling Street into the ultimate battleground. Facing enemies of unthinkable powers, could Duyao unravel the mystery of his real identity and come to his wife's rescue just in time?