Film Screening: The Valiant Ones
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A righteous husband-and-wife swordfighting duo is called to protect China from the machinations of Japanese pirates and corrupt officials in King Hu's masterly work, noted for its forest fight scene set to the moves of a Go match. "A muscleman is not enough; we need a schemer," one character muses, illuminating the film's intricate web of betrayals and plots. Pai Ying and Hsu Feng are elegance incarnate as the married couple, a suave, sword-wielding Bogart/Bacall act catching arrows out of midair, foiling assassins, or coolly demonstrating their fighting techniques on an assortment of Ming dynasty stooges.
