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The Lost Bladesman
By kidnapping their women, a tyrant forces the greatest warrior in the world to fight his closest friend. The civil war then leads to the collapse of Han Dynasty & the establishment of Shu Han of the 3 Kingdoms.
17 March 1978, Guizhou, China
7 November 1976, Beijing, China
25 September 1989, Taiwan
17 March 1963, Portuguese Macau
11 May 1977, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
20 September 1982, Beijing, China
5 January 1963, Tangshan, China
6 September 1971, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
December 13, 1968 in Jiangxi, China
26 January 1963, Hong Kong
26 September 1982, Shanghai, China
27 July 1963, Canton, China
15 February 1968, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
April 27, 2011
Problems of scale limit the film's clarity and its emotional power.April 23, 2011
I found the storytelling a little confusing, mostly due to the plethora of characters who are mentioned in the context of the wars that are taking place or about to. But aside from that, the film works as a well made genre pieceApril 28, 2011
There's something really robust about actually seeing a fight rather than the cutaways and the illusion of a fight rather than a real fight.April 27, 2011
While the action is impressive, the human drama and characterisation of the potentially fascinating warrior General Guan Yu is sadly one-dimensional.April 28, 2011
The Lost Bladesman starts off big and rather cool and ends up an intimate epic hot and heavy with spent passions and an aura of sadness that's unexpectedly moving.May 05, 2011
An epic historical martial arts film with thin characters, a tepid love story and some excellent fight sequences with the long-handled crescent-moon blade.April 27, 2011
After a while it all becomes a bit predictable, especially as the political motivations are, to the uninitiated, more than slightly opaque.