Long cheng shi ri

The narrator explains that power has changed hands in Dragon Town and the new mayor is looking for traitors to execute. Hsu Feng travels by palanquin. She meets the local druggist to continue her undercover rebel plan to kill the mayor. She finds a survivor hiding then she is surrounded but a voice in the dark ends the encounter. Cut to a crowd watching the troops searching a house for secret plans. Hsu Feng is subsequently captured, tortured, an imprisoned. This part of the movie seemed to drag on. The final fight did not save this movie either. Chen Hui-Lou's villain character has a stupid weapon that just makes noise. The fights are filmed in the dark and there are no special moments at all. I cannot even recommend this movie for the most hard core fan. I watched it once to say I did and I am unlikely to ever watch it again.

The story takes place in a feudal China where the main protagonist is a woman... totally revealing (a unique and recurring aspect in Oriental cinema) without the need to be framed in the speeches of "politically correctness" the director develops the film with innovative shots and a very personal aesthetic taste. Low angle shots, detailed shots, character design and open shots when the plot calls for it.

There is special care in the dialogue, especially so that the film tells us most of it in images and it is the viewer who develops the details by ellipsis, thus achieving a commitment and identification with the plot from beginning to end.

Great battles and action. Good effects and actors. 10/10.