Swordsman III: The East Is Red

1993 [CANTONESE]

Action / Romance

9
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 1817 1.8K

Plot summary

A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat of the evil Invincible Asia, who attained supernatural abilities by following the sacred scroll and castrating himself.

Director

Siu-Tung Ching Photo
Siu-Tung Ching

Top cast

Brigitte Lin Photo
Brigitte Lin as Asia the Invincible / Dong Fong Bat Bai
Mike Leeder Photo
Mike Leeder as Spanish Priest
Dion Lam Photo
Dion Lam
Rongguang Yu Photo
Rongguang Yu as Gu Cheong Fong
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
883.19 MB
1280*720
Cantonese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds ...
1.77 GB
1920*1072
Cantonese 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by abbiewu 5 / 10

terrible

I wanna rate it 1. but I gave it 5 stars. Only because the soundtrack is great. actually one of the best that year. Sarah Chen sings a great song here (The Mundane World aka Xiao Hong Chen). She sang two theme songs for Hong Kong movies that year. actually both Hark Tsui's movies. this one and Green Snake (Dance of Sunlight aka Liu Guang Fei Wu). both songs are classics. you could still hear the music for these two movies featured in many TV serial nowadays. Brigitte Lin is OK in this movie, and has some memorable scenes. but Rongguang Yu is such a terrible actor, you just wanna hit him on his face~ and the script is really bad, no one could rescue it from that. of course, if you just wanna see some action, it's a OK movie for you. buy it on sale or just go buy the soundtrack.
Reviewed by bornenasty 7 / 10

Crazy film that nearly hits the mark

Having missed any preceding films, I knew from the genre that this was going to make little to no sense to me at points, but right from the off I was confused...Making no attempts to explain itself, it gets straight into the action. Fantastical fighting and some incredible wire work really do make this film a visual spectacle, but the absence of continuity at times does hinder it.Certain scenes appear to have been either cut completely, or just parts of them left in, which again doesn't help the mix. If you watch the trailer you'll see that Jet Li is in it... but when you watch the film, you realise he has been left on the cutting room floor...! Overall it makes for a very enjoyable, if not inexplicably odd/hard to follow film - but it's certainly made me want to watch the earlier instalments!!
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