Kung Fu Classic - Dragon Gate Inn
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DVD Review: A good movie with not-so-good DVD quality
Summary: 3 Stars
While living in the Far East, I first saw this movie, Dragon Gate Inn, at a movie theatre in 1967. When I found out that this DVD was available from Amazon, I bought it and enjoyed watching it again after more than 40 years, partly because of my nostalgia for those days in the 1960s. The storyline, taking place during the 15th century in the Ming Dynasty, is as follows. In an attempt to gain control of the country, a power-hungry First Eunuch, Zhao Shao Qin, executes his political enemies, including his main political rival Yu Qian, the Defense Minister, and expels Yu's three children from the country. Zhao plans to kill Yu's children at the Dragon Gate Inn, located near the border, by sending his team of assassins. Zhao's plot fails when swordsmen Xiao Shao Zi (played by Shih Chun), Chu Huei (played by Shankuan Lingfeng) and her brother, and two defectors from Zhao's assassin team defeat the assassins under the direction of the innkeeper Wu Ming, a former lieutenant of Yu's. Eventually Zhao himself, a very high-level swordsman, battles the heroes (Xiao, Chu, etc.), and is killed. The movie is filled with many beautifully-choreographed sword-fighting sequences.
Although not as well-made as King Hu's previous masterpiece, Come Drink with Me (Great Drunken Hero), this film is, in my opinion, perhaps one of the best wuxia films made in the 1960s. The picture quality of this DVD, however, is rather poor: All the files (15 chapters) of this DVD are less than 4 GB. A few minutes of the movie (in Chapter 12) are difficult to view because the DVD player (or computer) skips it. It appears that a small company has produced this DVD based on a Japanese version (the menu is in Japanese), with the addition of English subtitles. However, I liked the subtitles, displayed below the movie screen, which are easy to see in clear and straightforward translations. One interesting observation is that the title of this film in Chinese characters is written backwards on the side of the DVD case. (The title is written correctly on the front cover of the case, reading right to left.)
I'll give 4.5 stars for the film and 1.5 stars for the quality of the DVD. Therefore, I give this DVD a 3-star overall rating.
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