Liu xing hu die jian (1976)

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The premise of Killer Clans is simple: Warring clans try to take each other out, often through the use of sleeper agents. The plot is anything BUT simple however. The character of Uncle, whom everyone is trying to kill, believes in being prepared to the point of putting over-prepared Batman to shame. His schemes are completely crazy. And he's not the hero here. He's a bad dude. Is there a hero? We weren't sure. The butterfly-catching assassin who falls for the girl in the forest is probably the closest, and his relationship to that girl rather sweet, especially after the film makes a couple of false steps with sexual scenes early on. While I'm still getting Dragon Dynasty's every release, I do wish they'd include at least minimal extras these days, just something to identify why the film is important to the kung fu canon or something. My own research shows that the film is based on Gu Long's wuxia novel "Meteor, Butterfly, Sword" (just as Michelle Yeoh's Butterfly Sword was, though they are clearly completely different bits of the novel), which explains some of its poetry. 8 years 8 months ago