Unambitious and dull Ku Shen Chai (Chun Shih) helps support his elderly mother (Cheung Bing-yuk) by painting portraits in the village square. One day a stranger shows up in town and asks Shen Chai to paint his portrait. Around the same time, Shen Chai and his mother befriend a mysterious woman (Hsu Feng) who has moved in next door. What they don't know is that that woman, Yang, is a fugitive from the law, and the stranger has come to apprehend her and deliver her to archaic and prejudiced justice system. The fact is, Yang's father had tried to warn the Emperor about a corrupt official in his government, and now that official wants to wipe out the man's family, which of course includes Yang. Shen Chai enters into a relationship with Yang, after which he is transformed into a different, much stronger person, one who isn't afraid to plot the deaths of others to protect the woman he loves.
A milestone in martial arts cinema, A Touch of Zen is King Hu's most acclaimed and ambitious film.
Inspired by the aesthetics of Japanese samurai films, this poetic three-hour epic brought Chinese cinema to new technical and artistic heights, revolutionising the martial arts genre and influencing the works of directors like Tsui Hark (Swordsman II) , Ang Lee (Couching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and John Carpenter (Big Trouble in Little China).
A Touch of Zen has been named as one of Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Best Films. It also won a special technical award at the Cannes Film Festival and is one of the first Chinese films to gain recognition in the international film festival arena.
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