Warrior

Warrior is a crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco's Chinatown in the latter part of the 19th Century. Inspired by the writings of the late Bruce Lee, the series follows Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji), a martial-arts prodigy who immigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances and becomes a hatchet man for the Hop Wei, one of Chinatown's most powerful tongs (Chinese organized crime families). Initially befriended by Wang Chao (Hoon Lee), a wily fixer, Ah Sahm is taken under the wing of Young Jun (Jason Tobin), the hard-partying son of the Hop Wei's leader, Father Jun (Perry Yung), who is facing an imminent opium war with a rival tong run by Long Zii (Henry Yuk). As he's indoctrinated in the rules of Chinatown gangs, Ah Sahm wins the confidence of a canny brothel madame, Ah Toy (Olivia Cheng), revealing to her the true intentions of his journey to America: to track down a woman who had emigrated two years earlier. Over the course of ten S1 episodes, Ah Sahm crosses several boundaries in and outside Chinatown, bringing him into contact with Long Zii rivals Mai Ling (Dianne Doan) and Li Yong (Joe Taslim); patrolmen "Big Bill" O'Hara (Kieran Bew) and Richard Lee (Tom Weston-Jones); power-hungry Mayor Blake (Christian McKay) and his young wife Penny (Joanna Vanderham); and working-class rabble-rouser Dylan Leary (Dean Jagger), a tough Irishman who encourages white dock workers to inflict as much damage as possible on the Chinese immigrants he claims are stealing their jobs.