PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON CINEMAX' 19TH CENTURY EPIC ACTION SERIES WARRIOR SECOND SEASON WITH ANDREW KOJI, KIERAN BEW, TOM WESTON JONES

     'WARRIOR' SEASON 2

BRINGS FRESH TROUBLE TO 19TH CENTURY CHINATOWN

Second season starts October 2nd!

Among other new and old shows, next month will also bring us the 2nd season of the fan favourite series WARRIOR which will kick its way onto Cinemax October 2nd! The 10 episode series will also be available on demand at MaxGo.Com.

Set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 19th century, it again follows Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji), a martial arts prodigy who emigrated from China under mysterious circumstances. After proving his worth as a fighter, Ah Sahm becomes a hatchet man for the Hop Wei, one of Chinatown’s most powerful tongs! Season two follows rival tongs, the Hop Wei and the Long Zii,

Amazingly charismatic Andrew Koji takes the lead role again

as they fight for dominance amidst the growing anti-Chinese racism that threatens to destroy them all. After barely surviving last season’s disastrous showdown, Ah Sahm is back with the Hop Wei and determined to wreak

New season will, according to rumours, also air on HBO and HBO Max later on

vengeance on Long Zii’s new leader, Mai Ling (Dianne Doan), who also happens to be his sister. Spending his nights honing his martial arts skills at a notorious Barbary Coast fight pit run by a savvy, opportunistic woman named

The first season was an absolute extravaganza of action scenes and martial arts

Rosalita Vega (Maria Elena Laas), Ah Sahm harbours ambitions to topple Hop Wei head Father Jun (Perry Yung). To accomplish this, he pushes tong heir Young Jun (Jason Tobin) into a new opium deal and welcomes the

Ah Sahm will be helping Young Jun to take over his father's tong

arrival of an enthusiastic new recruit and fighter, Hong (Chen Tang). As the two tongs fight for dominance over the course of the season, both face numerous outside threats, including from the brutal Fung Hai tong and its nihilistic leader Zing (Dustin Nyugen), the embittered Irish labour

Olivia Cheng returns as the superresorceful madame and businesswoman

movement led by tough-as-nails bar owner Dylan Leary (Dean Jagger), and the hostile local government under the politically spineless Mayor Blake (Christian McKay) and his scheming deputy, Walter Buckley (Langley Kirkwood). With the stakes mounting and tensions with her brother

Tom Weston Jones and Kieran Bew return as Chinatown's policemen

growing, Mai Ling struggles to control her new partner Zing, and lover and tong lieutenant, Li Yong (Joe Taslim). Meanwhile, brothel madame Ah Toy (Olivia Cheng) continues to pursue her secret and violent agenda and slowly becomes intrigued by Nellie Davenport (Miranda Raison), a wealthy widow

Ah Toy will continue helping Ah Sahm for her own reasons and possibly love?

using her fortune to rescue young Chinese sex workers. Struggling to get out from the Fung Hai’s grip, debt-ridden police sergeant Bill O’Hara (Kieran Bew) faces growing suspicion from his subordinate (Tom Weston Jones) while fixer and profiteer Wang Chao (Hoon Lee) continues to play both sides. Socialite turned businesswoman Penny Blake (Joanna Vanderham) works to keep her father’s factory open using Chinese labour and must adjust

The series is based on the writings of Bruce Lee

to the arrival of her young, rebellious sister Sophie (Celine Buckens) who begins to cross family lines in favour of the Irish labour movement. Between the local political turmoil and the escalating gang violence, tensions in Chinatown threaten to boil over into a full-scale war that will raise the stakes and its survival of the fittest for those left standing.