CheerupSilver
Very Cool!!!
Acensbart
Excellent but underrated film
Pacionsbo
Absolutely Fantastic
Sameir Ali
Shaw brother produced a great number of Kung Fu movies. This is one of them. Hard to believe that this movie was made in the 60's with such a great quality and hard core actions.The story is about the kidnap of a the Governor's son by the bandits. Their demand is to free their leader in exchange. Golden Swallow is in charge to free him. She is a a great warrior, but the traps of the bandits puts her down. Then, she gets help from an unexpected person.Interesting movie with great martial arts sequences. Must watch for action film fans. #KiduMovie
t-van-rossum7
Da Zui Xia: I can really recommend this film. It's entertaining, humorous and fascinating. The martial art skills of Pei Pei Cheng are impressive. And the idea of a meat-eating monk as a bad guy interesting. The drunken fighter is a funny guy who had to put up with the apprehension of Golden Swallow (Pei Pei Cheng) but is meanwhile helping her whenever he can. It is just too bad that the films by Shaw Brothers were boycotted at the time in favour of Golden Harvest, where they had to start their own cinema as their films were not allowed to be shown elsewhere, because they really made very good movies in that era.
zetes
Having been very disappointed in King Hu's most famous film, A Touch of Zen, I was actually eager to see one of his other supposed masterpieces. I wanted to see if the guy just didn't work for me or what. Fortunately, his earlier film, Come Drink with Me, made for Shaw Brothers, impressed me a lot. I would still complain about the choppy editing during the kung fu sequences, which not only makes it difficult to understand what's going on, but also makes the martial arts magic less believable. But while there are a few brief scenes where I thought the editing was weak in such a way, there are three extended action sequences that are eye-popping and heart-stopping. Cheng Pei-Pei, best known now for her latter-day role in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, plays a powerful kung fu student trying to rescue her brother, who has been kidnapped by a gang of dissidents, led by the chalk-faced Hung Lieh Chen. He's one of the all-time great bad guys, and I love his cohorts, as well. The film is full of fantastic character design. Cheng teams up with Hua Yueh, a drunken beggar who is secretly a kung fu master. What really comes through is Hu's supreme visual sense. It definitely made me more interested in the man's works, and even in revisiting A Touch of Zen.
ConcreteSteelC
Da zui xia was a relief. I watched many kung fu movies as a child that were slightly reminescent of this one, and have stopped watching recent ones since the scope of their theme had narrowed down so much.Now, for the first time in many years, I am able to recover some of what I saw back then but did not fully understand. A recent tour throughout China and more familiarity with Chinese philosophy and culture gave me sudden insights in the director's message. This is very refreshing.
