Director Tsui Hark helms one of the most kinetic & visually striking action films to emerge from the Hong Kong golden age! A young man discovers the truth about his father’s death and embarks on quest for revenge where he loses his right arm and is left for dead. But when violence comes to his home again, he’ll have to pick up his father’s broken sword and find a new way to wield it.
“Tsui Hark deconstructs the world of chivalrous heroes, turning it into a man-eat-dog hellscape where mercy is just another word for ‘weakness.’ Reimagining Chang Cheh’s landmark 1967 film, The One-Armed Swordsmen, as a psychotronic phantasmagoria full of scars and tattoos, mutilation, amputation, sexual frustration and heavy chunks of steel-splitting muscle and breaking bones, Tsui rolls his superstylized camera through the dirt and turns the freeze-frame into a tombstone.” – Gray Hendrix, Time Out
