The film’s violence is not merely spectacular but dialectical—each wound inscribes social antagonism onto the body, transforming combat into a materialist register of class and gender struggle #TheOneArmedSwordsman
A ★★★★½ review of The One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
Class Antagonism and the Anti-Hero as Ideological Figure Chang Cheh’s „The One-Armed Swordsman” represents a fundamental ideological rupture within the wuxia genre, inaugurating what can be understood...
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January 11, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Hierarchy operates through exclusion, wherein institutional roles naturalize inequality. When the chief selects six students for advanced training, excluding Yun despite his potential, #BastardSwordsman dramatizes how meritocracy functions as ideological cover for predetermined social positions.
A ★★★★ review of Bastard Swordsman (1983)
The Fantasy of Social Mobility Lu Chun-Ku’s „Bastard Swordsman“ represents a critical juncture in Hong Kong wuxia cinema, emerging during Shaw Brothers Studio’s late period when the genre underwent a ...
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When real ghosts emerge, they disrupt the economic arrangement entirely. This intrusion of the genuinely uncanny into the realm of commercial fraud suggests a limit-point of commodification, a domain resistant to market logic #TheFakeGhostCatchers
A ★★★ review of The Fake Ghost Catchers (1982)
Supernatural Economy Viewed as part of Arrow Video’s Shawscope Volume 4 collection, Liu Chia-Yung’s The Fake Ghost Catchers (1982) presents itself as a supernatural comedy within the Shaw Brothers stu...
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January 3, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Ich werde im Rahmen des #Wuxianuary versuchen möglichst viele Wuxia Filme zu schauen! Mal sehen wie gut mir das gelingt, mit #DemonOfTheLute ist aber wenigstens der Anfang gemacht ❤️⚔️
January 2, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Ich werde im Rahmen des #Wuxianuary versuchen möglichst viele Wuxia Filme zu schauen! Mal sehen wie gut mir das gelingt, mit #DemonOfTheLute ist aber wenigstens der Anfang gemacht ❤️⚔️