1967 · wuxia · taiwanese
Dragon Inn
Directed by King Hu1h 51m1967
China, year 1457. The Minister of Defense is executed, and his children are sentenced to exile by order of the tyrannical Tsao. Fearful of future revenge from the young people, Tsao sends cruel soldiers to murder them, but a brave group of swordsmen can change the course of the battle at the Dragon Inn.
Our read: Dragon Inn (1967) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded wuxia · taiwanese entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured wuxia / taiwanese, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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