Today’s viewing: #TheMagicBlade (Chor Yuen, 1976) an entertaining and shadowy wuxia film from Shaw Brothers that was released at a time when the wuxia film was declining in popularity because of martial arts films. #filmsky
As the final entry in my #Wuxianuary 2026 retrospective—a curated historiographical journey through ten seminal wuxia films from the Shaw Brothers canon—Chor Yuen’s #TheMagicBlade stands as a fittingly transformative conclusion ❤️
The narrative exposes that in this cutthroat ecosystem, wealth offers no immunity against betrayal. Ultimately, #TheMagicBlade deconstructs the capitalist promise of upward mobility, revealing it as a cycle of systemic strife where individual ambition serves only to perpetuate a machinery of death.
The final entry of this year's #Wuxianuary! #NowWatching #TheMagicBlade #ShawscopeVol3 @arrowvideo.bsky.social
Tactical decor!!
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"After you've eaten, I'll sleep with you."
"Get her a bowl of noodles. And reduce my order to the smallest bowl you have."
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Puzzle Fu!!
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Fu's about to f**k that whole Devil Grandma gang up, no Peacock Dart needed at all!
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Devil Grandma deserves to be sent where all devil grandmas are sent, back to bed.
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TFW Devil Grandma wants to give you a hand.
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Mr Yu's dastardly plan to use Fu and Yen acquire the Peacock Dart is a stroke of evil genius, foiled only by the Dart's mystical monk keepers!
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Hung Hsueh and Yen Nan-Feh, who started this movie in a death duel, have teamed up to fetch Peacock Dart from Peacock Mountain?
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Mr Yu done accidentally released the dog of Kung fu war!
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This is like that time I played #Skyrim with the new expansion, and the damn assassins kept attacking randomly. At least Yen Nan-Feh gets a chance to spot them before they attack.
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Love the concept "swordplay world"
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Dangerous street. Even the kids. And now Evil Grandma.
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"I forget why I wanted to kill you."
This is why you just take an extra second and put short notations on your kill list.
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