Fist of the Blue Sky

- Season 1

(2006)

Kenshiro is teaching at Towa Women's University and accidentally embarrasses Aya Kitaoji, daughter of the university's founder. In Ginza, Kenshiro meets Pan Guang Lin and picks a fight with the Emperor's guard from Hiei who was following Lin to find Yan Wang.

Kenshiro meets Li Yong Jian and recalls 3 years earlier when he wiped out the leaders of the Hong Hua Hui for his friends Pan Guang Lin's group the Qing Bang. Li tells him that Pan Guang Lin is dead, killed by the Hong Hua Hui.

Li jumps to end his life by falling on concrete to make his face unrecognisible, but is saved at the last moment by Jin Ke-Rong who wants Li as bait to trap Kenshiro. When Kenshiro realizes what Li has planned, he goes to find him.

Kenshiro decides to let Jin live, and as Li lays dying from the poison, he reveals that the Hong Hua Hui also killed his fiancé Yu Ling as he hands Kenshiro a letter from her.

Kenshiro arrives in Shanghai and finds the city is controlled by the Hong Hua Hui by paying off the leaders of the French Concession under Jean Carnet although they have little respect for him.

Kenshiro, Ye and his son enter the "Great New World" and see the arena with a red-hot furnace chimney in each corner. Huang Zi Fei announces the next contest in which the huge foreign fighter Goran is matched with a Qing Bang member, who only manages to survive for a short time.

Kenshiro's punch stuns Goran who accidentally grabs a red-hot chimney. Goran recovers and starts attacking Kenshiro, removing some of the bandages, potentially exposing him as Yan Wang.

Wu Dong-Lai of the Hong Hua Hui leaders hears of Yan Wang's appearance in Shanghai. At the "Great New World", Charles de Guise insists the winner be congratulated by Huang but he declines.

Ye tells Kenshiro that Wu Dong Lai hates Pan Guang Lin because he desired the actress Mei Yu, who was in love with Pan. Kenshiro finds Mei Yu and reveals his identity, but she berrates him and Pan for abandoning their women.

To help Kenshiro find Wu, Mei Yu invites Wu to her birthday party.

As de Guise tells Mei Yu that Guang Lin is still alive, Kenshiro dons a steel brace for his broken arm and goes with Ye to rescue him.

Tian Xue Fang joins the remaining Hong Hua Hui leaders, struggling to stay upright after having a steel toupee fitted to his head. Meanwhile, in a set-up, a newspaper article announces Ling Wang's death and funeral to be held at the "Great New World", officiated by Pan Guang Lin.

Mei Yu and Pan Guang Lin are tearfully reunited, and Guang Lin is grateful to de Guise for his help. Jean Carnet and Tian Xue Fang realise they must cooperate despite their disgust at each other to defeat the re-formed Qing Bang.

Ling Wang tells Kenshiro that a year earlier, during the upheaval in Shanghai, he was about to kill Yu Ling, but spared her although he wiped her memory so that she no longer knows or loves Kenshiro.

Pan Guang Lin re-asserts he authority as leader of the Qing Bang, including eliminating Carnet and the traitor within their midst while Kenshiro eliminates Tian Xue Fang

De Guise takes Kenshiro to see his sister and explains that he and Kitaoji plan to create a Shangri-La in Shanghai for displaced people in the coming war in Europe.

Now friends, Kenshiro and de Guise plan for the appearance of Zhang Tai Yan and to send Sophie to safety.

Kenshiro appears to be absent for Sophie's funeral, however he has arranged for the warship in the harbour to fire its cannons in a salute. Later, three monks stop a car with Qing Bang and murder them. They are from a Hokuto Sokaken sect known as Goshamonto.

A train full of bandits arrives in Shanghai and begin causing trouble, menacing and shooting anyone in their way. Then a second train full of them arrives and Tai Yan gives them permission to loot the city.

A vision of the Taoist master of astrology appears to Kenshiro, challenging him to decide what to do.

Shanghai returns to normal after Li Xui Bao convinces the bandits to return home. As the translator, Kenshiro tells Li Xui Bao that General Okawa will be arriving in Shanghai to negotiate the terms of surrender.

Kenshiro finds Tai Yan and tells him that Li Xui Bao is Pan Yu Ling, whose memory was robbed by Ling Wang and who entrusted her to a brigade of bandits because he fell in love with her.

Kenshiro tells Tai Yan that he has found the weakness in his 'fist', and following Kenshiro's strikes, Tai Yan sees visions of his hated father and strikes out randomly. Kenshiro explains to Tai Yan that revenge has clouded his Hokuto and Tai Yan accepts that he has lost and asks Kenshiro to kill him.

Kitaoji tries to convince General Okawa to spare Li Xui Bao's life, but he flatly refuses. As Li Xui Bao walks the Bund, she senses some familiarity with the area.

Li Xui Bao meets Kitaoji and says she is ready to surrender to General Okawa. Meanwhile de Guise tells the Guang Lin and the others that General Okawa's son was killed by the bandit Yu Zhan Hai and that Kenshiro is looking for him in Shanghai.

Kenshiro uses his Hokuto Shinken to stop Guang Lin from dying, although not before Guang Lin calls Li Xui Bao by the name Yu Ling