A Chinese action/fantasy film from director
Tsui Hark set in the fifth Century on Zu Mountain, a place of strategic military importance. A soldier longing for peace stumbles into a world of magic, comedy, flying demons, scary white sheets, swords (many), virgins, skulls, and er… eyebrows. It's completely bonkers but was hugely influential to the supernatural xianxia genre.
Tsui himself would go on to use the same techniques many times in later years to better effect. I'm not as fond of it as I am of some of those later films, but I acknowledge its importance and won't contest its place in film history.
3½ colourful battles out of 5
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