1972 · wuxia · shaw-brothers · epic
The 14 Amazons
Directed by Cheng Kang, Charles Tung Shao-Yung2h 3m1972
The Yang family, men and women, have served their country loyally for generations. During the war General Yang is ambushed and killed. His widow and the entire family set out to avenge his death and defend the country.
Our read: The 14 Amazons (1972) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded wuxia · shaw-brothers · epic entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme wuxia / shaw-brothers, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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