Section 03
The Fights
The reason most people are here. Sequence by sequence, with what the choreography is asking of the space.
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The Ladder Fight, Broken Down
The film's signature sequence, taken beat by beat.
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What Wire Work Brought to Dumas
Hong Kong action grammar applied to seventeenth-century swordplay.
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Swordplay Against Stunt Work
Where fencing ends and choreography begins.
Released
7 September 2001
Running time
104 minutes · PG-13
Director
Peter Hyamsalso his own cinematographer
Fights
Xin-Xin Xiongstunt choreographer