1980 · kung-fu · shaw-brothers · venoms
The Rebel Intruders
Directed by Chang Cheh1h 39m1980
China is ripped apart by a civil war, and thousands of displaced refugees swarm into towns not yet ravaged by war. Three such refugees arrive in one town. They join forces with local rebel leaders to escape to the south before getting into trouble with Lu Feng who is out to exterminate all rebels.
Our read: The Rebel Intruders (1980) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded kung-fu · shaw-brothers · venoms entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured kung-fu / shaw-brothers, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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