Post by enflover on Nov 2, 2020 22:52:14 GMT
Hello everyone!
For years I've been looking for this movie and it's driving me crazy!
- I watched it as a kid, probably around 1990-1993, so it can't be older than that. It's probably form the 70s or 80s
- I saw on TV in France, don't think it was subbed
- it's most likely from China/HK (but I'm not 100% sure)
- I believe the fighting was mostly done with swords than with fists and kicks
I roughly remember the plot, tho I might remember some details wrong as I've only seen it once almost 30 years ago:
The story is pretty classic:
it's set in a feudal time, in a village that's bullied from a local lord.
A stranger comes in, and he's like super strong and begins kicking the ass of all the lord's goons...
What I liked was that he was (as a remember) a pretty reluctant hero; in the end he faces against the lord in a swordfight in front of the latter's army, and the lord has the upper hand the whole fight.
It's really the ending that stroke me: the lord injures the hero badly (slashing at his legs if I recall), but of course the hero ends up winning. He then turns to face the army smiling at them, and they flee because he was badass enough to beat their leader.
The hero then immediately falls and dies.
While my memory of most of the plot is to be taken with a grain of salt, that final scene is probably pretty close.
I've done a bit of research, it might be a Shaw Brothers movie, maybe by Cheh Chang as I've read that heroes dying standing up is a thing he does a lot, but couldn't find it in his imdb page (but I might have missed it).
Also I've found this John Woo movie, and the ending fight seems close to what I remember:
Tho in the movie I'm looking for, there was only one hero, and they were fighting in a more open scenery, like a field. And maybe there was a sunset when we saw the silhouette of the hro falling? but the "wounded hero being overpowered by the bad guy" thing seems close to I'm looking for.
Anyway, that's the best I can remember, if I find new leads I'll post them here.
Thank you very much if you've read all that, and if you help me finally find it, you have no idea how grateful I'll be, as it's something that's been bugging me my whole life!!
For years I've been looking for this movie and it's driving me crazy!
- I watched it as a kid, probably around 1990-1993, so it can't be older than that. It's probably form the 70s or 80s
- I saw on TV in France, don't think it was subbed
- it's most likely from China/HK (but I'm not 100% sure)
- I believe the fighting was mostly done with swords than with fists and kicks
I roughly remember the plot, tho I might remember some details wrong as I've only seen it once almost 30 years ago:
The story is pretty classic:
it's set in a feudal time, in a village that's bullied from a local lord.
A stranger comes in, and he's like super strong and begins kicking the ass of all the lord's goons...
What I liked was that he was (as a remember) a pretty reluctant hero; in the end he faces against the lord in a swordfight in front of the latter's army, and the lord has the upper hand the whole fight.
It's really the ending that stroke me: the lord injures the hero badly (slashing at his legs if I recall), but of course the hero ends up winning. He then turns to face the army smiling at them, and they flee because he was badass enough to beat their leader.
The hero then immediately falls and dies.
While my memory of most of the plot is to be taken with a grain of salt, that final scene is probably pretty close.
I've done a bit of research, it might be a Shaw Brothers movie, maybe by Cheh Chang as I've read that heroes dying standing up is a thing he does a lot, but couldn't find it in his imdb page (but I might have missed it).
Also I've found this John Woo movie, and the ending fight seems close to what I remember:
Tho in the movie I'm looking for, there was only one hero, and they were fighting in a more open scenery, like a field. And maybe there was a sunset when we saw the silhouette of the hro falling? but the "wounded hero being overpowered by the bad guy" thing seems close to I'm looking for.
Anyway, that's the best I can remember, if I find new leads I'll post them here.
Thank you very much if you've read all that, and if you help me finally find it, you have no idea how grateful I'll be, as it's something that's been bugging me my whole life!!