Legendary Weapons of China (1982)
- Original title
- 十八般武藝
- Directed by
- Lau Kar-leung
- Genre
- kung fu film
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Rated
- 15
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 52 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
During the late Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager sends agents to the Boxer Rebellion to find martial artists who claim to be bulletproof. When a faction leader disbands his group, assassins are sent to kill him for treason. The story features many fights using a variety of legendary Chinese weapons.
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What happens
Legendary Weapons of China (Chinese: 十八般武藝; pinyin: shí bā bān wǔ yì; Jyutping: sap6 baat3 bun1 mou5 ngai6, lit. 'Eighteen Martial Ways'; a.k.a. Legendary Weapons of Kung Fu) is a 1982 martial arts wuxia film or wuxia pian directed by Liu Chia-liang. It takes place during the late Qing Dynasty when Empress Dowager Cixi dispatches her agents to various factions of the Boxer Rebellion in order to find supernatural martial artists that are invulnerable to western bullets. When one of the leaders of these groups disbands his forces, assassins from the remaining factions are sent out to kill him for his apparent treason. As the title of the film suggests, a great variety of fights take place involving the "legendary weapons." Although Liu Chia-liang is known for showing "real Kung-Fu" in his films, he does take some artistic license by incorporating elements of Taoist Maoshan folk magic with hand-to-hand combat. This is similar to what he did in another of film of his, Heroes of the East (or Challenge of the Ninja). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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