| Synopsis: The Jade Tiger, a bloody and expansive martial arts epic, follows the self-destructive standoff between the Zhao and Tang clans in ancient China. It opens at the wedding of Zhao Wuji (Ti Lung), when a traitorous assassin working for the Tang clan beheads his father at the Zhao's Dafeng Hall. Wuji seeks revenge, but is poisoned by a member of the rival clan. He is saved by another swordsman and a mysterious brother and sister who live in an ethereal realm of peace and harmony called the Hate Free ... Full Synopsis
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| As one character warns another, "your enemy in the morning might not be at night." This is good advice for the protagonists of Chor Yuen's The Jade Tiger, an entertaining if completely convoluted and overwrought wuxia about two rival clans. The fight scenes, choreographed by Huang Pei-Chi and Tong Gaii, are inventively staged with swords and kookier weapons like exploding eyeballs. This makes up for ... Read Review | |
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