1994 · wuxia · shaolin · action
Burning Paradise
Directed by Ringo Lam Ling-Tung1h 44m1994
An exotic, legendary battle between the forces of good and evil comes to life as the celebrated disciples of the Shaolin Temple -- monks who practice a lethal and spiritual form of martial arts -- fight the evil followers of China's Manchu rulers.
Our read: Burning Paradise (1994) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive wuxia · shaolin · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme wuxia / shaolin, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
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