1992 · wuxia · action · fantasy
Swordsman II
Directed by Tony Ching Siu-Tung1h 47m1992
Ling Wu Chung decides to hide from the chaotic world. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a tribe of snake-wielding women warriors. However, he finds that the tribe have been attacked, and their leader Yam Ying Ying has been abducted.
Our read: Swordsman II (1992) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal wuxia · action · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured wuxia / action, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
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