- HD 1080
- Runtime: 105m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: zh
- Country: Hong Kong
- Director: Lau Kar-Leung
- Stars: Gordon Liu Chia-Hui, Yuka Mizuno, Cheng Kang-Yeh, Ching Miao, Yasuaki Kurata
- keywords: martial arts, japan, kung fu, shanghai, china, karate, judo, ninja, hong kong, drunken master, ninjitsu, 1930s, drunken boxing
- Production_studio: Shaw Brothers
- Slogan: There is nothing more terrifying than the ninja... except death!
- providers: MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, ARROW
- The Heroes of the East is featured in the top rankings of 1978
- #12 in Top Comedy Movies of 1978
- #4 in Top Action Movies of 1978
Gordon Liu stars as a Chinese martial arts student struggling to relate to his new Japanese wife. When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals into an international incident, he's forced to take on seven of Japan's most powerful martial arts masters, each an expert in a different discipline, ranging from karate to samurai to ninjitsu.
