“Wild Swords” is not your usual wuxia. For starters, it is an independent production (Feng Xiaogang is credited as producer) that fulfilled its budget through crowdfunding, and not a blockbuster in the style of “Shadow” or the older “Hero”. Furthermore, its aesthetics linger somewhere between Zhang Yimou‘s masterpieces and Hou Hsiao-hsen‘s “The Assassin“, while Li Yunbo also seems to have loaned elements from the anime “Shigurui” and from “Rashomon” regarding the different version of the events. Let us see how this amalgam worked out.
“Wild Swords” is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival
The rather labyrinthal case revolves around the Nameless Sect, a renowned syndicate of assassins, whose members are considered to have been butchered by the rival Tang-men Sect, with the exception of the latest pupil, Chang Weiran, who is nowhere to be found. Ten years later, and as the story actually begins, Guo, a thief,...
“Wild Swords” is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival
The rather labyrinthal case revolves around the Nameless Sect, a renowned syndicate of assassins, whose members are considered to have been butchered by the rival Tang-men Sect, with the exception of the latest pupil, Chang Weiran, who is nowhere to be found. Ten years later, and as the story actually begins, Guo, a thief,...
- 29/10/2020
- de Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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