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Information
- Year
- 1983
- Runtime
- 89 min.
- Director
- Chun-Ku Lu
- Genres
- Action, Mystery
- Rating *
- 7.1
- Votes *
- 155
- Checks
- 48
- Favs
- 7
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 14.6% (1:7)
- Favs/dislikes
- 7:0
Top comments
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Siskoid
The Bastard Swordsman, a late (1983) Shaw Brothers film, and one of their rare full-on magic wuxias. WHAT A STRANGE AND WONDERFUL FILM! The plot is nothing new. A clan challenges another clan, but a third clan has infiltrated the first one and attempts to steal its secrets and destroy from within. Our hero is a poor, bullied servant who is being secretly trained to do kung fu at night by a mysterious benefactor. Convoluted, but simple enough. Into this comes some really crazy chi tricks as characters fly around the room, gravity gives out entirely, people shoot laser beams from their hands and our hero gets encased in a cocoon and comes out a beautiful butterfly. That last one is only a mild exaggeration. There is actually some chi-powered web-spinning in this. Whenever you thought you'd seen it all, there was more 8 years 9 months ago