Magic Braid filmed the novel by Feng Tszitsaya (1942). The film tells about a rustic merchant soy bad Second owning family style battle scythe, which, due to circumstances became embroiled in a conflict with the underworld Tianjin.
Practical Effects
The scythe fight choreography is genuinely inventive for its budget.
Production
Recreated 1940s Tianjin street markets on 1980s resources.
Director
Zien Zhang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Feng Tszitsaya's novel was banned during the Cultural Revolution for depicting 'petty bourgeois' merchants as heroes; the 1986 film adaptation arrived during China's opening-up period, making its commercial protagonist suddenly acceptable.
Director Zien Zhang allegedly cast actual Tianjin street performers as extras for authenticity, then discovered several were descendants of the real 1940s underworld figures depicted in the story.
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