Strike at Heart is a Hong Kong period wuxia television series based on Woon Swee Oan's novel, A Spear of Alarm produced by TVB. The series stars Joe Ma, Sunny Chan, Stephen Au, Charmaine Sheh, Nnadia Chan, and Annie Man. It was filmed in 2004 and released overseas in January 2005. Then it was aired in Hong Kong on TVB Pay Vision's TVB Drama channel from 27 May to 23 June 2009.
Plot Chu Kot Ching Ngor (Joe Ma), Yuen Sap Sam Han (Stephen Au), and hermit Tin Yee (Sunny Chan) are apprentices to the same clique. They have not seen each other for a long time. During a rare gathering, they end up at daggers drawn.
They studied in the same clique when they were young and became good friends. Due to physical constraint, Tin Yee was unsuited to Martial Arts so he turned to studying yin yang and five material agents. Chu Kot and Yuen were born to learn Martial Arts. Yuen's lifetime goal is to become the best fighter in the Martial Arts World. However, he could never beat Chu Kot before he left the clique, which bothered him enormously.
Chu Kot worked for the imperial government after he left the clique. Yuen lived a quiet life practicing Martial Arts in the hope of defeating Chu Kot one day. When Yuen reappears in the Martial Arts World, Chu Kot has become renowned and is known as Mr. Chu Kot. His immediate mission is to fight against a corrupt official Choi King (Shek Sau). Because of Choi King, Chu Kot cannot avoid having an ultimate fight with Yuen. During the fight, Yuen uses his "Heartbroken Arrow" while Chu Kot fights back with his "Strike at Heart".
In fact, Chu Kot has never really wanted to fight with Yuen. Under the vossludes of fortune, they both fall in love with a gentle and cheerful girl named Siu Keng (Charmaine Sheh).
Cast Note: Some of the characters' names are in Cantonese romanisation.
Main cast Cast Role Description Joe Ma Chu Kot Ching Ngor諸葛正我 Tin Yee Householder's juniorYuen Sap Sam Han's seniorSiu Keng and Mung Tip's soulmate Sunny Chan Hui Siu Yat (Tin Yee Householder)許笑一 (天衣居士) Chu Kot Ching Ngor and Yuen Sap Sam Han's seniorChik Nui's husband Stephen Au Yuen Sap Sam Han元十三限 Tin Yee Householder and Chu Kot Ching Ngor's juniorSiu eing's husband Charmaine Sheh Siu Keng小鏡 Chu Kot Ching Ngor's soulmateYuen Sap Sam Han's wife Adia Chan Mung Tip夢蝶 Chu Kot Ching Ngor's soulmateChoi King's follower Annie Man Fu Ting Ling Fung (Chik Nui)呼延靈鳳 (織女) Tin Yee's Householder's wifeGod Needle Gate disciple
Other cast Cast Role Description Shek Sau Choi King蔡京 Chancellor Edward Mok (莫家堯) Lang Ling Hei冷凌棄 Chu Kot Ching Ngor's follower Steven Ho (何啟南) Chui Leuk Seung崔略商 Derek Kok Fu Chung Shu傅宗書 Choi King's follower Newton Lai (黎漢持) Chi Ko智高 Siu Keng's father Lawrence Yan (甄志強) Sung Fai Chung宋徽宗 Catherine Chau (周家怡) Siu Hung小紅 Lai Suen (黎宣) God Needle Granny神針婆婆 Head of God Needle Gate Karen Lee (李彩寧) God Needle Gate disciple神針門弟子 Chun Wong (秦煌) Three Tail Priest三鞭道人 Lo Mang Tong Po Ngau唐寶牛 Leung Kin Ping (梁健平) Choi Sui Chak蔡水澤 Samuel Kwok (郭峰) Yuen Ngan Kwan(Wanggiya Pugya)完顏袞
See also List of TVB series (2005)