![]() In its baroque orchestrations and macho codes (laced with a liberal dash of Freud), it’s the antithesis of the other film that kickstarted the wuxia wave in the late 60s, King Hu’s female-centric, released the previous year. Taking its thematic cues as much from Japanese samurai films as the American western, One-armed Swordsman sees Chang lift the in-house Shaw Bros studio-shot aesthetic to new levels of artifice and abstraction. ![]() The One-armed Swordsman (1967) It’s difficult to underestimate the influence Chang Cheh’s classic would have on the Chinese martial arts film. ![]()
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