Swordsmen in Double Flag Town

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Swordsmen in Double Flag Town ★½ 1991

Stylized martial arts flick best-appreciated by aficionados. Young Hei Ge (Gao) enters the village of Double Flag Town to claim his promised bride. He kills a man trying to rape his intended and provokes the wrath of the man's brother, a well-known killer called the Lethal Swordsman. Naturally, there's the Chinese equivalent of a showdown at high noon. Mandarin with subtitles. 90m/C DVD . CH Wei Gao, Mana Zhao, Jiang Chang, Haiying Sun, Gang Wang; D: Ping He; W: Ping He, Zhangguang Yang; C: Deling Ma; M: Long Tao.

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