Specme me some good old sword on sword action!

Phatjayunoi said:
The films you mentioned are more of the modern "Wuxia" genre, i.e. historical fantasy, honourable swordsman with wire-fu. It is quite hard to find certain films that are not of this genre, and based more on grounded historical realism like Red Cliff.

Only other films I can think of is "The Warlords" (2007) which ironically also star the same actors from those listed films, Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro. This film is set in around Qing Dynasty 1860's.

Another historical fiction film, is "A Battle of Wits" (2006), set around 370 B.C during the Warring States Period. This also staring Andy Lau :D!

If you want another Wuxia film, there is what would be like a Chinese version of the Seven Samurai called appropriately, ..... "Seven Swords" (2005), directed by Tsui Hark. This film is set in the mid-1600's just around the beginning of the Qing Dynasty itself. Its also originally supposed to be 4 hours long but got cut in half.

Meh...., too many Chinese films don't you think? But then when it comes to old fashioned epic sword films, they have the rich history and decades of period pieces to back it up.

One film I still haven't seen yet but took my interest is 2007's "Mongol". Apparently the first of a trilogy about Genghis Khan, so hopefully that is interesting. And its directed by a Russian :p.
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Cheers, I'll be checking them out :D

I saw Mongol and thought it was okay, there wasn't that much action. I guess I was a bit dissapointed because I thought it would be full of action, but it wasn't :(
 
Arjun806 said:
Cheers, I'll be checking them out :D

I saw Mongol and thought it was okay, there wasn't that much action. I guess I was a bit dissapointed because I thought it would be full of action, but it wasn't :(
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Yeah I picked up the movie and watched it today and it seems to be more about building up the young adult life of Genghis Khan, although very historically inaccurate in many parts, its still an interesting take on the famed conqueror. The small amount of action that it has is actually quite good, very close up and quite violent. I guess we will have to wait for the next two sequals to hopefully see some epic large scale battles, and I'm especially looking forward to the Mongol invasion of China.


Looks like some people mentioned Versus and I can say it is damn good for a low budget film. Very stylish and the director, Ryuhei Kitamura, also made the first Azumi film (Which was already mentioned before). This same dude also directed the cutscenes in Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes for the Gamecube for people who didn't know that.
 
Surfer said:
nobody mentioned CONAN :eek:

the Barbarian
the Destroyer

Red Sonja

etc :D
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You just made me realise something else......

For the biggest cheesefest of them all and its recently been on ITV2 a couple times,

"Masters of the Universe"!!

The film is just so bad that its awesome, if you know what I mean. Granted that its not exactly old fashioned since theres a lot of pew pew lazers, its still a hilarious piece to watch though :D.
 
Surprised no one has mentioned Flesh & Blood

It has everything required for sword based cheesy action!

Made by Paul Verhoeven -check
Stars Rutger Hauer -check
Has Landsknechts -check
Has Sieges -check
Has raping and pillaging -check

See all the required items are present and correct \0/

:D
 
Phatjayunoi said:
Yeah I picked up the movie and watched it today and it seems to be more about building up the young adult life of Genghis Khan, although very historically inaccurate in many parts, its still an interesting take on the famed conqueror. The small amount of action that it has is actually quite good, very close up and quite violent. I guess we will have to wait for the next two sequals to hopefully see some epic large scale battles, and I'm especially looking forward to the Mongol invasion of China.
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So I watched Red Cliff and The Warlords and I liked them.

I'm waiting for A Battle of Wits to be released on DVD and I'm trying to get Seven Swords.. do you have any other films you can reccomend? :) :D
 
Arjun806 said:
So I watched Red Cliff and The Warlords and I liked them.

I'm waiting for A Battle of Wits to be released on DVD and I'm trying to get Seven Swords.. do you have any other films you can reccomend? :) :D
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Red Cliff 2 should be out this month in China, so a few months on later this year until the DVD/Blu-Ray of it comes out. Trailer here for Part II. The 2½ hour version for Western release will also be out this month too. Hopefully this version has been cut and edited decently and no doubt all the battles and action from both complete films will be in this one. Also means less filler and character development.

Another I could recommend is Warriors of Heaven and Earth which has a wonderful take on the Tang Dynasty era where Buddhism was at its height and is a major plot to the story.

EDIT - Better trailer for Red Cliff 2 here, although it only has Korean subtitles but has the recognisable epic American movie anouncer guy :eek:
 
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Phatjayunoi said:
Also means less filler and character development.
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Less is better? Having seen the first part (yay korea) and currently trying to find a cinema here that shows english subs for part 2, I would say try to get the orginal as cutting the first film in half would really be to the detriment of the story.

Im not even sure how they could do it ...

Back on topic, if you like sword-play howabout the zatoichi or, baby cart from the river styx? They are lacking an epic feel though.
 
Well I already have the first part on Blu-Ray which I prefer anyways. I still will be getting the Western cut version though just to see how it is done.

I would recommended Zatoichi as well, especially the 2003 version with Takeshi Kitano. And seeing as he directs and stars in it, it has his own brand of comedy/whackiness in it i.e. the tap dancing festival at the end.
 
There is a 1972 movie of the same name but there was a show aired in the UK between 76 and 78 called ‘The Water Margin’ with plenty of episodes and mucho sword play.
 
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