Yen shi kwan biography of williams

Yen Shi-Kwan – Evil Master; Chen

Great blog Steve. I find this film to be fascinating especially the relationship between Asia and Jet's character as you mentioned above. I can understand why it inspired you to blog. Thanks also for including my blog in the list on the right hand side of this page. I noticed that someone used the link here to find my blog so thanks for that.

For my fourth entry into Jetruary I decided to review what is essentially Jet's first entry into the fantasy martial arts genre. In the sequel to the classic Wu Xia epic directed by King Hu, Jet Li replaces original star Sam Hui as the swordsman Ling in what is seen as a film that not only manages to be a worthy follow up to the original but surpass it in many ways.

Ling is a man who has a love for drinking, singing and women. Along with his faithful companion Kiddo Michelle Reis they both retreat to the mountains intent on retiring from the martial arts world and lead a quiet life. However they soon get involved in a plan to rescue Master Wu Yen Shi-Kwan who has been imprisoned by the mysterious Dawn Brigitte Lin who plans on ruling over Asia using his new abilities gained from a powerful scroll granting the user supernatural abilities.

At this point in Jet's career he had mostly done realistic and traditional martial arts action and this is the first time we see him donning wires and flying through the air with all the charm and grace he possesses. The style of action is very different to that of Shaolin Temple or Dragon Fight but it's easy to see why Jet would end up going this route in his later films.

While he looked incredible doing more grounded kicking and punching, here we see him doing amazing flying kicks and lightening fast sword displays, it's the type of action that would go on to define his on-screen style well into his career and Swordsman II is where it all started. First of all, his on-screen persona is very different to what he has displayed previously.

In Dragon Fight he was very much the stoic hero, down playing his emotions for the most part.