No one has been more influential in the commercial and artistic renaissance of martial arts film in the West than Chinese action hero Jet Li.

    BEIJING, May 9 -- No one has been more influential in the commercial and artistic renaissance of martial arts film in the West than Chinese action hero Jet Li.

    Now that the interest has been rekindled, Li said, it's time for the real education to begin.

    In his latest film, "Unleashed,", Li said he hopes to put the spectacular, stylized violence of recent martial arts-influenced films into the proper context of Asian belief.

    In "Unleashed" (originally titled "Danny the Dog"), Li plays a man who has been held captive since childhood by an English gangster and trained to be an attack dog. Brutalized his whole life, Li's character "Danny" finds his redemption through his love of music and through the compassion of a blind American piano tuner (Morgan Freeman) and his daughter (Kerry Condon).

    Li approached writer-producer Luc Bresson, with whom he had worked on the ill-fated "Kiss of the Dragon" four years ago, with the idea of doing an action film that examined the dark side of violence. 

    (Source: CRIENGLISH.com)