“Butterfly and Sword” is an insane, mixed up film, featuring insane, mixed up action. Sing is engaged to Butterfly (Joey Wang), who has no idea that he is actually a trained assassin. They formulate a plan and go at it, in typical action movie style. Your email address will not be published. Meanwhile, Ko has feelings for Sing but naturally Sing isn’t interested, seeing Ko as an ‘older sister’ more than anything. I just wished this drama had more episodes 30 was too short. It's not surprising why it was eventually rated 6.2, this movie is guaranteed to hold your interest for the 6.2 as you notice that you are relating to the characters. One of the men, Meng Sing Wan (Tony Leung), is in a relationship with a girl named Butterfly. © Letterboxd Limited. Butterfly Sword is a non-stop barrage of shots with super-wide angle lenses and canted angles (which always feel designed rather than gimmicky), and assembled together with a breakneck pace to the cuts. And though the cuts are…. Michael Mak(SEX AND ZEN,ISLAND OF GREED0 directed this spectacular and violent martial arts period piece that explores the world of adult siblings Michelle Yeoh and Tony Leung Chui-Wai(HERO,TOKYO RAIDERS,BULLET IN THE HEAD) who are on a mission(courtesy of a sinister ruler) to take out an evil king,his bratty son,and their heavily amred forces,with both Donnie Yen and Jimmy Lin Chih Ying helping them out. If any of those three sentences intrigues you give it a watch. List in progress. Not really sure what this movie was about....as the action comes fast and furious in this one. There’s even the odd occasion where a fighter flies through the body of another fighter, blade first and they crumble into bits a few seconds afterwards! ‘新流星蝴蝶劍’ Opens with a face being ripped off and wuxia hijinks causing humans to explode into dusty messes and then Michelle Yeoh tells Tony Leung he's got a small organ while Donny Yen pathetically creeps on her and from there it. A decent wire-fu movie with some cool fighting, but a little long on the romance angle for my tastes.I'd be curious to learn what caused the transition from gushing blood drenched deaths of the 70s and 80s to the exploding powder/ash deaths of the 90s in Chinese genre cinema. More Information. As complete as I can remember them/have them logged on…, I was planning on making my own Wuxia list, then I found End of Cinema's 30 Essential Wuxia Films, a…, For my 100th list I planned to do something special. The leader of Happy Forest is Lady Ko, played by Michelle Yeoh. Film data from TMDb. The list includes legally released cassetts only. I think if the movie would have slowed up just a little bit I would have (a) enjoyed it more and (b) understood all the plot devices being used. You might only see a shot for a second, but the shot will goddamn count. Ko’s brothers and sisters are ‘sworn’ siblings and are of no blood relation to each other, but all grew up on the streets. All in good fun and the humor doesn't get as over-the-top and silly as it does…. Region Free (All Countries) Top Martial Arts Movie Stars Training Background, Top 21 Female Martial Arts Movie Stars of All Time, The Top 13 MMA Themed Martial Arts Movies. Everything you want from a wu-xia wrapped up in one package: tearing off faces, bodies ripped in half (vertically and horizontaly), human bodies exploding, dismemberments of limbs, decapitations, impalements, human pin-cushions stabbed by hundreds of flying swords, and romance! The abilities of the characters is over the top – for example, people aren’t just cut in half, their body parts fly off in different directions once cut! Mobile site. ), How to Never Run out of Martial Arts Movies to Watch. For more information see our Privacy Policy. When Sing infiltrates Master Suen's clan, he meets his childhood friend, Ho Ching (Yeh Chuan-chen), who is also working undercover for Sister Ko. Limbs flying everywhere, decapitations galore. Jun 13, 2007. disclaimer: watched this 90s Hong Kong action movie as god intended, as an illegally uploaded rip of the dub on youtube. Story...what now? not. Required fields are marked *. Martial Arts Action Movies The action is the obvious standout, though during this period action director Ching Siu Tung had basically trademarked fast cutting, wire-work and what amounted to people in billowy robes flailing at each other, so it may not be to everyone's taste. 90s wuxia is too pure for this world. This is more of a movie about special effects and crazy looking scenes rather than martial arts action, which is kind of disappointing when you have Donnie Yen in a movie, but if you look at this as a crazy movie you'll find enjoyment.a group of assassins being impaled by bamboo, Yeoh shooting her scarf like a spear, Tony Leong being shoot like an arrow through a log and another dude. As an action film it’s definitely not realistic and is based more in fantasy, as a way of demonstrating ‘other-worldy’ skill in the martial arts of the main characters.

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