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MARTIAL ARTS SALE! For a Limited period, selected Martial Arts and Wuxia titles from ONLY £9.99 each!A quintessential entryway into the highly stylized, tightly choreographed wuxia genre of martial arts cinema, Dragon Inn was a global breakthrough for the form’s greatest practitioner, King Hu. Its influence remains incalculable, from its annihilation of traditional expectations of what kind of role an actress should inhabit (also chipped away at by Hu’s previous masterpiece Come Drink with Me), to the formation of many of the genre’s archetypes – such as the Eunuch, the Swordswoman, and the Family of Murdered Loyal Officials – that are still recognizable in the martial arts films of today.It’s the middle of the Ming Dynasty. The powerful eunuch Cao (Pai Ying) has killed the Loyal Minister Yu, and Yu’s children are exiled to the border, whereupon Cao undertakes efforts to massacre the remnants of the family. As Yu’s children take refuge in the Dragon Gate Inn, Xiao the righteous swordsman (Shih Jun) and the surviving loyalists of Minister Yu engage in a series of battles to the death against the forces of the blood thirsty eunuch.After having returned to the spotlight in 2003 as the backdrop for Tsai Ming-liang’s modern classic Good Bye Dragon Inn, Hu’s film is again resurrected by way of the dazzling 2014 4K restoration presented here. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Dragon Inn for the first time in the UK in a Dual Format special edition.Reviews“A facinating reminder of what martial arts cinema looked like before the rise of Bruce Lee” – Neo Magazine“a touchstone of martial arts cinema ★★★★☆” – Total Film“riotously entertaining” – Sight & Sound
Original Release
10/21/1967
US Release
09/17/1968
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Polly Ling-Feng Shang-Kuan | (as Lingfeng Shangguan) / Miss Chu Huei |
Chun Shih | Xiao Shaozi / Hsiao Shao-Tzu |
Ying Bai | (as Pai Ying) / Tsao Shao Chin |
Feng Hsu | |
Chien Tsao | |
Han Hsieh | Chu Chi |
Ah-Tsai | |
Ying-Chieh Han | Mao Zong-Xian |
Simon Hsu | (as Hsu Yao-kuang) |
Fei Kao |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Polly Ling-Feng Shang-Kuan | (as Lingfeng Shangguan) / Miss Chu Huei |
Chun Shih | Xiao Shaozi / Hsiao Shao-Tzu |
Ying Bai | (as Pai Ying) / Tsao Shao Chin |
Feng Hsu | |
Chien Tsao | |
Han Hsieh | Chu Chi |
Ah-Tsai | |
Ying-Chieh Han | Mao Zong-Xian |
Simon Hsu | (as Hsu Yao-kuang) |
Fei Kao | |
Ming Kao | |
Hsiao-Pao Ko | |
Chieh Li | |
Chu Liu | General Wu Ning |
Shih Lu | |
Miao Tien | (as Tien Miao) / Pi Shao-Tung |
Peng Tien | |
Wei Tsai | |
Paula Tsui | |
Chung-Shan Wan |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jung-Feng Sha | Executive Producer |
L.S. Chang | Producer |