1984 · martial-arts · action
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter
Directed by Lau Kar-leung1h 38m1984
The Yangs are betrayed by a government official conspiring with the Mongols. All of the Yang family males except the 5th and 6th brother are killed. Fu Sheng loses his mind after the death of his family, while the other brother takes refuge in a Buddhist temple.
Our read: Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded martial-arts · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme martial-arts / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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