Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986) on Netflix

Plot summary

During the Qing dynasty, Zhi Ming comes of age inside the Northern Shaolin school, which raised him after he lost his family. The one keepsake of his former life, a silver band on his ankle, stays hidden from the temple's elders. He breaks the monastery's rules by smuggling meat onto the grounds and by teaching the school's techniques to youths he meets nearby. Two of those youths are chosen to dance the lion at the birthday celebration of He Suo, the magistrate behind his family's deaths, and Zhi Ming persuades them to send him in their place. In the south, Sima Yan, niece of the Southern Shaolin master Fa Ren, decides to kill He Suo for her own family. Fa Ren finds her gone and sends the disciple Chao Wei, her close friend, after her.