Butterfly & Sword (1993)
新流星蝴蝶劍
Director: Kevin Chu
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Tong Leung
An honorable, brave farmer volunteers to help
defend the Ming Dynasty against a gang of dissembling eunuchs with a
coup d'etat on their minds. Featuring Hong Kong superstars Michelle Yeoh
and Tony Leung.
During Ming
Dynasty, there was a power struggle between Eunuch Tsao and Eunuch Lee.
Tsao teamed up with Lady Kao, the head of "Happy Wood", to intercept a
confidential letter sent by Lee to Sun Yu-Po, the owner of Hill Villa,
in order to reveal Lee's conspiracy.
Ko's pal, Mon,
sneaked into the villa and was put to an important position by Sun who
even arranged his concubine to marry him. On the night of
Mid-Autumn Festival, Lady Kao and her two pals attacked the villa and
succeeded in acquiring the letter. However, they discover that
the disturbance was provoked by Tsao ...
DVD:
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Language:
Cantonese / Mandarin
Subtitle:
English / Traditional Chinese
/ Simplified Chinese
All Regions
(Can be played on any DVD player in the
world)
Letter Box
Rating:
II -
"May be Inappropriate For Children" (Broad
rating may be roughly equal to an MPPA rating of
"PG-13" to "R". In the late 1980s
this rating splintered in two ratings: IIA and IIB) Films
rated Category II may contain mild to strong violence,
nudity that is usually not sexually oriented, explicit
language and adult situations.
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