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Ich werde im Rahmen des #Wuxianuary versuchen mΓΆglichst viele Wuxia Filme zu schauen! Mal sehen wie gut mir das gelingt, mit #DemonOfTheLute ist aber wenigstens der Anfang gemacht β€οΈβοΈ
#DemonOfTheLute feels less like a dead end than a messy crossroads. It captures the moment when classical wuxiaβs old certainties fall apart, but it also shows the genre refusing to vanish quietly. Instead, it explodes into color, noise, jokes, and impossible ideas. What survives isnβt a tradition intact, but an attitudeβa stubborn insistence that wuxia can still be playful, excessive, and alive, even if it has to become a little childish to stay that way. https://boxd.it/cn6E9H
A β β β Β½ review of Demon of the Lute (1983)
To all Children Seen as part of Arrow Videoβs Shawscope Vol. 4, Tang Tak-cheungβs βDemon of the Luteβ (ε ζη΄ι) no longer feels like a strange footnote from the tail end of Shaw Brothers history. Instead, it plays like a film that accidentally wandered into the future of the genre. What once looked like excess, confusion, or desperation now reads as a moment of wild possibility, when wuxia was shedding old obligations and testing how far it could stretch before snapping. The restoration and careful framing of the set encourage us to take the film seriouslyβnot as a guilty pleasure, but
