- HD 1080
- Runtime: 102m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: cn
- Country: United States of America, Hong Kong
- Director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
- Stars: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan Chi-Lam, Xiong Xinxin, Power Chan Kwok-Pong, Jeff Wolfe
- keywords: martial arts, kung fu, china, foreign worker, colonisation, kung fu master
- Production_studio: Win's Entertainment Ltd., China Star Entertainment
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The Once Upon a Time in China and America is featured in the top rankings of 1997
- #65 in Top Action Movies of 1997
- #3 in Top Western Movies of 1997
So goes to the U.S. to open a martial arts school. Around this time, many Chinese people were sold off to U.S. railroad companies, and were brutally treated by the Americans under the harsh working conditions. Thus, the American workers' hatred towards the Chinese immigrants is high. As a result, So gets into trouble with the Americans and the mob, and calls Master Wong for help.
