Abstract:

The story of Lin Ch`ung, the chief training instructor of four-hundred thousand imperial troops, who is forced to become an outlaw through a series of conspiracies engineered by a high-ranking courtier. Based on an episode from Shi Nai-an's classic novel, Shui hu chuan. One of the best of the period sword epics, lavishly produced and photographed in compositions often resembling Chinese landscape paintings come to life. With Tony Leung and Joey Wang.