After Call Of Heroes hit the screens, moviegoers were quick to dub it a politically-charged fusion of classic movie genres that pays tribute to the spaghetti westerns and samurai dramas of yesteryears.

Director Benny Chan, however, prefers to call his latest film “just a straightforward story of good versus evil”. Inspired by all the martial arts flicks that he used to watch while growing up, the Hong Kong filmmaker said: “The concept has its origins from a martial arts world, and springs from the underlying chivalrous spirit, which is the basic building block of the heroic characters in the movie.”