Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)
In the fifth century, constant civil war scars western China. To escape death, Ti, a young scout, jumps through a crevice in the Zu mountains where he meets and becomes the apprentice of Ting Yin, a spiritual man with great fighting powers. They encounter a monk, Hsiao Yu, also a great fighter and a good man, but unfriendly to Ting. Because Ting and Hsiao can’t work together, it falls to Ti to team with Hsiao’s acolyte Yi Chen: they have 49 days to travel far to claim two swords that are the only weapons that can defeat the Blood Demon, who has decided the wreak havoc on the world. They get help from Long Brows, Ting falls in love with a countess, and civil war still rages.
Tsui Hark
Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Adam Cheng, Moon Lee, Mang Hoi, Brigitte Lin, Norman Chu, Damian Lau, Corey Yuen, Chung Fat, Dick Wei, Ha Kwong-Li, Ka Lee, Fung Hak-On, Yuen Miu, Sai Gwa-Pau, Judy Ongg, Tsui Hark
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