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“A ferocious deconstruction of classical wuxia, replacing elegance with fractured space, physical brutality and a world stripped of heroic certainty.”
“A ferocious deconstruction of classical wuxia, replacing elegance with fractured space, physical brutality and a world stripped of heroic certainty.”
“Tsui Hark strips wuxia down to a raw and violent world, radically deconstructing the traditional mythology of the swordsman.”
“Tsui Hark’s most visceral and savagely kinetic film: a raw, sweaty revenge saga of broken blades and spinning chains.”
Storyline
Adopted by a renowned swordsmith, a young man discovers that his biological father was killed by a powerful bandit called Lung. Leaving to seek revenge, he runs afoul of vicious desert scum, losing his right arm in the process. After being nursed back to health, he learns to compensate for his loss and returns to confront Lung.
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Tsui Hark
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