{"id":16694,"date":"2024-08-28T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16694"},"modified":"2024-08-26T19:50:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T23:50:39","slug":"blade-of-fury-1993-sammo-hung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16694","title":{"rendered":"Blade of Fury (1993, Sammo Hung)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to my copy’s wonky subtitles and my general lack of historical context and, uh, my inability to pay close attention to plots and alliances in movies, I dunno what exactly happened, but I know they all died heroically in the end, for the future of China.<\/p>\n

The Big Sword lays waste to the Japanese:<\/em>
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Wang Wu (Yang Fan) is our main furious swordsman, getting his entire Big Sword troop killed by the Japanese in the opening scenes. He meets young masters Ti Lung (A Better Tomorrow<\/a><\/em>) and Cynthia Khan (star of a Yes Madam<\/a><\/em> sequel\/ripoff the same year), they team up with some government guys who are trying to “reform” the government (sword-involved reform).<\/p>\n

Our Boy Sammo:<\/em>
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Plenty of wire jumps and trampolines, swordfights and beheadings, people getting shot in the face, Sammo over\/under-cranking every action scene. Clearly made in the wake of the Once Upon a Time<\/em> movies, with its mix of action and historical politics – and from the writer of parts II<\/a> and III<\/a>, and with a small role for Rosamund Kwan as a rich lady who thinks Wang is quite nice. Sammo gives himself one fight playing a prison guard – it’s great, but all the fights are great. Not sure where James Tien appeared – one of the camel riding raiders? – but this movie notably has the same ending as his Fist of Fury<\/a><\/em>, which I should’ve seen coming from the title.<\/p>\n

Nefarious Ngo (Master Wong’s dad in OUATIC3) loses to The Big Sword:<\/em>
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Due to my copy’s wonky subtitles and my general lack of historical context and, uh, my inability to pay close attention to plots and alliances in movies, I dunno what exactly happened, but I know they all died heroically in the end, for the future of China. The Big Sword lays waste to the Japanese: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,2448,32,1766,2940,2711],"class_list":["post-16694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-decapitation","tag-hong-kong","tag-kung-fu","tag-sammo-hung","tag-sword"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16727,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16694\/revisions\/16727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}