1971 · wuxia · shaw-brothers · swordplay
The Lady Hermit
Directed by Ho Meng-Hua1h 45m1971
A young Kung Fu student seeks a reclusive teacher so that she may learn to defeat the evil Black Demon. She doesn't realize that the servant woman she befriends is actually the kung fu master she seeks. After Black Demons henchmen attack, the master reveals herself and eventually takes on the student to train her so that they may both defeat the villain. A love triangle complicates things when another student asks for training as well.
Our read: The Lady Hermit (1971) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive wuxia · shaw-brothers · swordplay entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured wuxia / shaw-brothers, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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