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Plot: Cheung (Wong You-Nam), an underdog with a crappy real-estate job, is sent to a remote town by his company to help secure a property for redevelopment. The small town, as it turns out, is hiding many martial-arts veterans. Among them are Dragon (Chen Kuan-Tai) and Tiger (Leung Siu-Lung), who maintain the teahouse Cheung's company wants to acquire. Dragon and Tiger try their best to keep the teahouse alive, because it used to be a martial-arts school before their teacher, Master Law (Teddy Robin Kwan), fell into a decades-long coma. As Master Law somehow springs back to life, Cheung embarks on a life-changing adventure.

"Gallants" was co-directed by Clement Cheng and Derek Kwok, and produced by Andy Lau's company, Focus Films.

Although the story is set in present-day Hong Kong, the film's trailer easily conjures up the Shaw Brothers movies of the 1970s and '80s. The background music is familiar, and text in old-school fonts is deliberately printed from right to left. A cast of '80s stars also adds to the retro feeling.

The film was screened to a selected audience during this year's Hong Kong International Film Festival. The festival's Web site describes the film as "an exhilarating homage to Hong Kong's action stars of yesteryear and Hong Kong's action comedies."

"Gallants" will open on the Chinese mainland on June 4 without a Mandarin version, unlike most Hong Kong movies, which usually are released in an additional Mandarin version to cater to mainland audiences.

"'Gallants' renders the feeling of old Hong Kong movies. In order to preserve that feeling for mainland movie-goers, we decided to only present its original Cantonese version," said Yu Dong, president of Polybona, the movie's distributor on the mainland.

"Gallants"
Director: Clement Cheng, Derek Kwok
Cast: Teddy Robin Kwan, Chen Kuan-Tai, Leung Siu-Lung, Wong You-Nam, Wai-Man Chan, Shaw Yin Yin
Genre: Drama/Comedy/Action
Language: Cantonese
Release Date (Chinese mainland): June 4, 2010