Tuesday, June 15, 2010

The Sword (1971)

Directed by Lei Pan
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Crash Cinema)

A sword collector realizes that the "greatest sword in the world" is not in his possession. He tracks the owner down in a remote mountain cabin. It's an old man and his daughter, who have withdrawn from the world because of the bad luck the sword brought them. Unable to buy the sword, the collector seduces the daughter. He leaves the next day, vowing to return in a year, after he has trained himself as a fighter. He returns a different man (with one big, black eyebrow), and tragedy results. A moral story about the emptiness of worldly pursuits and their ultimate cost.

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