Plot
Something that makes me angry is that when a movie comes out. Which is so beautiful that everyone should see. However no-one goes to see it, but then a movie comes out a few years later, wins worldwide praise despite ripping of the other movie and wins a host of awards without acknowledging the other movie at all.The over-rated Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon ripped of this classic movie. If you're a fan of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon then you will love this movie.Sang Sui directs the flawless masterpiece of cinema. Sang Siu highlights issues such as the gap between the rich and the poor and the injustice caused by corruption to the poor beautifully. Yuen Biao stars as Li San (who at night is the Swallow Hero, a sort of Robin Hood). Despite helping the poor, he yearns to find his loved one who was cruelly raped and put in a brothel. Yuen Biao, who was born for this movie, gives such a diverse performance filled with anger, love, sadness, and even sometimes happiness. It's really incredible that to this day Yuen Biao has not received one Best Actor nomination from the Hong Kong Film Awards and even the Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan. This really is a terrible indictment on both these awards. Also, Athene Chu, who plays his loved one, gives a beautiful performance filled with yearning, who also deserved at least a Best Actress nomination at the Hong Kong Film Awards. The whole cast is wonderful and complement Yuen Biao and Athene Chu beautifully.Wu Kam choreographs the fight scenes with such elegance that Yuen Biao seems fight like a twenty year old. Wu Kam also not only brings out the very best of every fighter but also emphasis beauty in the fight scenes. Some of the fight scenes that Wu Kam directs were ripped of by Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.Sang Siu, includes some wonderful wireworks as Yuen Biao flies, walks over walls and exhilarates. The wireworks in this movie had been directly ripped of by Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.The soundtrack is really wonderful too with the use of traditional Chinese instruments. Also, as this film was filmed in mainland China, the cinematography is beautiful, it really is wonderful and brings out the best of rural China.Sang Siu and Wu Kam will go very far on the evidence of this. Sometimes a person lives and dies without seeing unseen masterpieces. This is one of them. If you ever get to see just one film throughout your whole life, the make it your objective to see The Hero of Swallow. Ripped of by Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, this is a masterpiece that comes only once a generation, if even that.One of the things I like about Yuen Biao is that his movies are not bounded by the Hollywood conventional happy ending. This movie has a deeply sad but poetic and beautiful ending. The way Yuen Biao acts at the end will probably never be bettered. I dare you not to cry at the end of this beautiful and emotional movie.
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Directed by
Sang Siu
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Hong Kong
Production Companies
Golden Tripod Film Co., Hong Kong
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