Part I
Spartan 300 Warriors
Starring: Gerald Butler / Vincent Reagan / Lina Heidi / Dominique West / Michael Fassbinder
The film depicts one of the most brutal wars in human history: the Battle of Hot Spring Pass. In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes I (Rodrigo Santoro) personally led an army of 300,000 to Greece. The Greek city-states quickly sent armies to form alliances to prepare to resist the invasion of the Persian army.
The forefront of the line of defense was at the Greek thermal pass, which was guarded by king Leonidas (Gerald Butler Gerard Butler) of Sparta, 300 elite soldiers and more than 4,000 allied troops. Due to the betrayal of the traitors, the Greek army was copied behind by the Persian army to form a siege and suppression. In order to preserve the strength of the coalition forces, Leonidas let the coalition forces retreat first, and led 300 elite soldiers to defend the hot springs after the blockade.
Hundreds of thousands of Persian troops flocked to the battlefield, and the Spartan soldiers, who knew they were bound to die, were morale high and exploded in the battle. The whole war lasted for 2 days, and finally Leonidas and his 300 elite soldiers were all killed, while the Persian army lost more than 20,000 soldiers, and two brothers of Xerxes I were also killed in this battle...
Part II
The Daredevil
Starring: Sylvester Stallone / Jason Statham / Jet Li / Duff Longell / Eric Roberts
His unassuming veteran Barney Rose (Sylvester Stallone) lives somewhere in the city, but in fact he is the leader of a special forces force, with Lee (Jason Statham) and Young (Jet Li) and other masters. Just as the so-called artists are bold, as long as the honorarium is sufficient, even dangerous tasks dare to take over. On this day, Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) from the CIA contacts Barney and hires them to travel to the South American island of Bilena to eliminate the dictatorial general David Zayas, who is opposed to the U.S. government.
Due to the difficult task, Barney and Lee explore the way first, and discover that Garza has colluded with former CIA officer James Monroe to brutally squeeze the people of Bilena. Soon Barney and his comrades rush to the island, and a bigger challenge awaits this group of brave warriors...
Part III
"Hot Blood College"
Starring: Shun Oguri / Takayuki Yamada / Kyosuke Yabe / Koichi Kado / Goro Kishitani
Suzuran Boys' High School is a notorious school where a group of bad students who love to fight are gathered, they are called "crows" because they symbolize unlucky events such as bloodshed, and in order to compete for school hegemony, they are divided into many factions, the two most powerful forces are the Serizawa Army led by Serizawa Tama Yu (Takayuki Yamada), and the new forces of transfer students Takitani Genji (Oguri Shun) and the ground snake Kata Kirito (Kyosuke Yabe) join forces. With the intensification of the contradictions between the two factions, the time is coming for the two great crow legions of Genji and Serizawa to duel each other...
Part IV
Guild Wars
Starring: Zhang Jiahui / Peng Yuyan / Li Xinqiao / Mei Ting / Li Fei'er / An Zhijie / Gao Jie / Jiang Haowen / Liu Qihong / Wang Baoqiang
Cheng Hui (Cheung Ka Fai), a former Hong Kong boxing king, was addicted to gambling and was in debt, and fled to Macau to avoid debt collectors. In the shared house, Cheng Hui meets a mother and daughter, this mother (Mei Ting), suffering from mental illness, the little girl (Li Xinqiao) not only has to go to school but also take care of her mother. Cheng Hui and the little girl are very close, and the two often dress up as small animals and rehearse sketches to make the little girl's mother happy.
At the same time, the rich second generation Lin Siqi (Peng Yuyan) suffers a family accident, and his father (Gao Jie) has a failed business, becomes dispossessed, and erodes in the bar all day. In order to encourage his frustrated father to start his life again, Lin Siqi signed up for MMA. To this end, he signed up for a boxing club, where he met Cheng Hui, who was working in the club, and worshipped him as a teacher to learn boxing.
After months of study, Lin Siqi won several consecutive games in the MMA and became the new boxing champion. Subsequently, he was challenged by another master (An Zhijie), and Lin Siqi retired from the game with injuries. At the same time, the debt collector found Cheng Hui and accidentally injured Mei Ting's mother and daughter during the fight. For this reason, Cheng Hui felt deeply guilty and did not want to involve others anymore, so he began to retrain his mixed martial arts skills, hoping to win the game in MMA and get a bonus to pay off gambling debts.
In MMA, Cheng Hui challenged boxing in his forties and was not favored. And the opponent he encountered was an anthem, the new boxing king Who defeated his apprentice Lin Siqi...
Part V
"First Blood"
Starring: Sylvester Stallone / Richard Criner / Brian Dennelli / Bill McKinney / Jack Starett
Veteran Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) returns from Vietnam to his homecoming town, where he appears to be unfamiliar, and the local sheriff (Brian Dennehy) starts being critical of Rambo at first sight, even taking him back to the police station to insult him, unable to bear the beating of Rambo and fleeing. The sheriff gathers a large number of police officers to hunt down Rambo, who flees to the wilderness and constantly fights back against the police with the guerrilla tactics he mastered in the Vietnam War, robbing a weapons truck back to the town and burning down shops, neither the law nor weapons can stop Rambo. Rambo appears in the Vietnam War chief Colonel (Richard Crenna) and persuades Rambo to put down his gun, and Rambo, who has been angry for a long time, roars out his confusion and unwillingness...
Part VI
Boxer
Starring: Tony Ja / PatChate Wang Kamrao / Pamwari Yudkamer
A young man with extraordinary skills, Ah Tian (Tony Jaa), lives in Batu Village, a peaceful village in Thailand, and has been learning Muay Thai from his master since childhood. One night, a young man in the village, Baduan, injured Ah Tian's master and stole the head of the Buddha statue that the villagers were waiting for. Shouldering the advice and expectations of the villagers, Ah Tian embarked on the road to find Batan and the Buddha's head. After several turns, he found his fellow villager Ah Han Lai who was mixing things in Bangkok, and he did not expect that the other party was just a small who saw money and had no intention of helping, but used Ah Tian's skills to make a lot of money in the black market boxing ring. Ah Tian was famous in the black market boxing ring, but he never forgot the Buddha head in the village, and he still had a mind to track it down. Inevitably, he will start a series of battles with the evil cultural relics criminal syndicate...
The film won the "Asian Action Unit Award" at the 6th Deauville Asian Film Festival in France in 2004 and the Orient Express Award at the Sitges-Catalonian International Film Festival in 2003.
Part VII
"The Gathering Number"
Starring: Zhang Hanyu / Deng Chao / Yuan Wenkang / Tang Hui / Liao Fan / Wang Baoqiang / Hu Jun / Ren Quan / Yuan Hongtao / Li Chen / Li Naiwen / Hu Ming / Luo Haiqiong
During the Liberation War in 1948, 47 soldiers of the Ninth Company led by 47 soldiers of the Ninth Company on the bank of the Wen River to cover the retreat of large troops, and the regimental commander Liu Zeshui (Hu Jun) ordered that the assembly call be used as an order to retreat when he heard the trumpet.
The fierce war began in the roar of the shells, the soldiers of the Ninth Company suffered heavy casualties, and the platoon leader Jiao Dapeng (Liao Fan), before the sacrifice, said that he heard the assembly number, Gu Zidi himself did not hear, he decided to hold his position. The Ninth Company repelled three enemy attacks, blew up two tanks, annihilated countless enemy troops, and killed all 47 people except the company.
This war changed the life of Guzidi. Because the troops changed their numbers, Guzidi could not find the organization, and the martyrs who died in the Ninth Company were also identified as missing. Gu Zidi began a difficult search, asking for an explanation for the brothers of the Ninth Company, and also to find out the truth of the assembly number that year.
Part VIII
The Warrior
Starring: Tom Hardy / Joel Edgerton / Nick Knott / Jennifer Morrison / Frank Grillo / Kevin Doon
It's a broken family, with the abusive wife of the alcoholic coach father Paddy (Nick Knott Nick Nolte), the second son Tommy (Tom Hardy) and his unbearable mother; the eldest son Brandon (Joel Edgerton) chooses to stay for love, thinking that he can get his father's weight and cultivation from now on, but in the end the father and son part ways. Years later, Tommy finds his father with the sad memories of his mother's painful death and the tragic experience of the Iraq War, and asks the latter to serve as his coach again to participate in the MMA's heavy prize competition; almost at the same time, Brandon, a former professional fighter and now a middle school physics teacher, is troubled by money, and he can't bear that he can't provide shelter for his wife and daughter, and decides to return to the field. In the MMA arena, the brothers, who have been separated for many years, will reunite and use the fusion of blood and sweat to dissolve each other's heart knots...