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 | | The protagonists travel endlessly, fight their foes at cross-roads, spend the night in sinister inns, arrive uninvited in glamorous mansions, jump through windows, are kidnapped, drugged, insulted, challenged to a duel, ambushed, and even killed. |
 | | Based on a novel by Ngai Hong (Ni Kuang). |
 | | Even in its visual details the film announces the arrival of a new kind of hero: Wang Yu wears simple, functional clothing modeled on the dusty homespun of the samurai films that inspired director Zhang and screenwriter Ni Kuang. |
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