1993 was the year of the explosion of Martial Arts movies in Hong Kong, and many martial arts movies were released in Hong Kong, and most of these martial arts movies became classics.
It can be said that 1993 was the year of the explosion of martial arts movies, why is it 1993? This has to mention a person Xu Ke.
In 1991, Xu Ke found Jet Li who opened a martial arts museum in the United States, and invited Jet Li to shoot the movie "Dragon Walks the World", but unfortunately, this movie was hidden in the snow and did not have the opportunity to be released.
At this time, Xu Ke did not give up, because he always wanted to remake the classic "Huang Feihong", and soon after Xu Kelian and Jet Li made "Huang Feihong", the film was a box office hit as soon as it was released.
Later, Xu Ke took advantage of the victory to pursue and Jet Li cooperated to shoot "Huang Feihong 2" and still sold well at the box office, and since then, Hong Kong has set off a wave of martial arts.
It is also in this big market environment that Luo Wei, a big director who once worked with Bruce Lee, took out his coffin and found Hong Jinbao to shoot a martial arts movie. In this way, "A Knife to the City" was born.
The movie "A Knife In the City" invited director Hong Jinbao at the time, starring Dillon, Yang Fan, Zhao Changjun, and Guan Zhilin, who relied on the popularity of "Huang Feihong", who thought that this movie would be a box office hit after its release, but Luo Wei did not think that it was this movie that directly hit the street after the release of the film, and his coffin was lost.
Although this movie lost the movie box office, but won the word of mouth, in the past ten years after the netizens found that this "a knife in the city" is a classic in martial arts movies, is a rare martial arts movie
The movie mainly tells the legendary story of the Great Knife King V, and it has another name, "The First Knife of Shenzhou". The story takes place in the late Qing Dynasty, when Wang Wu was the captain of Liu Yongfu's large knife team of the Black Flag Army, who was highly skilled in martial arts, and was defeated in an assassination attempt to assassinate the commander of the Japanese army, and the entire army was destroyed. Because he saw that his brothers had died tragically, Wang Wu also jumped off a cliff on horseback.
Fortunately, Wang Wu did not die, and later Wang Wu met Tan Sitong in the process of saving a child, and Tan Sitong felt that Wang Wu was a rare talent, so San gu Maolu asked Wang Wu to come out of the mountain.
At the same time, the two of them became acquainted with the scheming Yuan Shikai, and the three of them went to Beijing together, and Wang Wu, with the help of Tan Sitong, founded the Qiangwu Society, preparing to train a group of talents for the country.
In the process, Wang Wu became acquainted with the beauty Yan Xi, and the two became confidants, but the other was Prince Yi's concubine, and after Wang Wu was arrested and imprisoned, Yan Xi managed to rescue Wang Wu.
In the turbulent environment of the country, Yuan Shikai, Tan Sitong and Wang Wu also embarked on different paths in life. After Tan Sitong was arrested and generously righteous, Wang Wu sought revenge on Yuan Shikai and could be outnumbered. In the end, Wang Wu died under the gunfire.
This movie can be said to be a classic in martial arts movies, and after many years of watching it, there will still be a feeling of blood boiling, whether it is martial arts design or camera use, it has achieved the ultimate.
The most memorable thing for netizens may be the movie lines, the lines of this movie are extremely elaborate, making it easy to resonate.
Guan Zhilin is also very beautiful in the movie, giving people a sense of otherworldliness, completely unable to see the shadow of the thirteenth aunt, I have to say that Guan Meiren's acting skills are also quite remarkable.