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The Bare-Footed Kid is a Shaw Brothers co- production and a remake of Chang Cheh's Disciples of Shaolin (1995). With cast members that include Aaron Kwok, Ti Lung and Maggie Cheung, not to mention choreography by Liu Chia Liang, this is a remarkably fine production with a story that actually has bite. Aaron Kwok plays Kuan Feng Yao, a naive and shoeless beggar with impressive fighting skills. He is in search of Tuan Ching Yun (Ti Lung), a fugitive who was a friend of his father. Kwok finds him working at a dye factory run by Miss Ho, played by the always charming Maggie Cheung. A powerful official named Ke Hu-Po (Kenneth Tsang) is trying to take over Miss Ho's factory at all costs and resorts to extortion and violence. Feng Yao attempts to defend the factory, but ends up causing Miss Ho to lose face through his thoughtless actions. He is even suckered into working for Hu-Po who offers him money and new clothes. A political struggle between Hu-Po and another individual results in Ching Yun being used as an expendable pawn after his criminal past is made public. Distraught by Ching Yun's fate, Feng Yao redeems himself by turning on his employer.