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Fist and Sword
Bodyguards and Assassins
Dir. Teddy Chan. 2009, 139 mins. 35mm print. With Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Xueqi Wang, Tony Leung, Nicholas Tse. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Set in 1900s Hong Kong, Sun Yat-Sen’s life is threatened and it is up to a scrappy team of misfits led by Chen (Leung) to protect the influential revolutionary. The film, which won eight Hong Kong Film awards, combines an ambitious and stunning hour-long battle sequence with insight into the turbulent political climate of turn-of-the-century Hong Kong.
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