Dragon Inn (1967)

aka Dragon Gate Inn

If you've not seen a King Hu film before, you might be tempted to start with what most critics consider to be his masterpiece, A Touch of Zen (1971), but my recommendation would be to start instead with Dragon Inn (1967), so as not to waste three hours of your life if it turns out that you don't like Hu's style.
Set at a distant outpost during the Ming Dynasty (1457), it receives more than an expected number of off-season visitors. Each of the main players have an agenda, political or otherwise, that they generally want to hide from the other guests. With regards the action scenes, they're inventive, but in order to appreciate their genre-defining importance a modern viewer will be required to put them into context by becoming aware of the era's limitations. That being said, the speeded up footage is more comical than anything else.

3 disturbances out of 5