The Blazing Temple
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
Sombre, breathless, measured kung-fu / independent, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Young men, angered by the repressive and corrupt Ching government, come to the Shaolin Temple to study. Fearing that the Shaolin Temple is a harbor for rebels wanting to overthrow the government, the Ching Emperor Yungzheng kills the monks wherever he can find them. After the Emperor orders the destruction of the Shaolin Temple, his name becomes the most feared and hated in China. After years of struggling, the surviving Shaolin disciples, led by Carter Wong, move to assassinate the Emperor. This epic tale of Manchu China has all the scope and action you'd expect from Hong Kong master Joseph Kuo.
Our read · The Blazing Temple (1976) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded kung-fu · independent · shaolin entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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