Sunday, April 15, 2012

Broken Sword (1971)

Directed by Yang Sun
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Crash Cinema)

Master An is given a scroll with important information for the government by a dying man in a cave. He is tasked to deliver it safely, but must deal with attacks from rivals who will stop at nothing to get it. Master An is an overweight, jolly fellow, not very good at fighting, in fact he carries a sword that regularly falls apart. Luckily two women, expert sword fighters, take up his cause and protect him. A bounty hunter of sorts gets involved and considers taking the huge reward offered for Master An's head. The fight scenes are rather routine, if bloody, and characters are not well-developed, in other words a typical early 70s martial arts product out of Taiwan.

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