Sunday, January 14, 2007

Lawsuit lost

The grandson of Kungfu master Huo Yuanjia has lost a lawsuit against producers and distributors of Jet Li's biographical film at the Beijing First Intermediate People's Court, where the case was heard on Tuesday.

The court ruled that the film "Huo Yuanjia", or "Fearless", was an exaggerated and fictitious portrait of the late Huo, one of China's most revered martial arts masters, but contained no defamatory or libelous depictions.

Huo Shoujin, 81, Huo Yuanjia's only surviving grandson on the Chinese mainland, had said the film contained fabrications of his grandfather's life and character, and it besmirched his reputation.

Huo filed a lawsuit in March, seeking a halt to the worldwide release of the film, and a written public apology.

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