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Hong Kong film legend – and University of Texas graduate – Tsui Hark returns with an epic about a martial artist (played by Xiao Zhan) caught between the warring Mongols and Jin Dynasty. Based on a popular Fifties wuxia novel by Jin Yong.
This article appears in February 21 • 2025.
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