Butterfly and Sword

Butterfly and Sword (1993)

  • 45% of users liked it
    (1,914 ratings)

Michelle Yeoh (aka Michelle Khan) began her comeback bid with this flamboyant Hong Kong action film from director Michael Mak and choreographer Ching Siu-tung. Based on a novel by Ku Long, previously filmed in 1976 as Killer Clans, the film stars Yeoh as Sister Ko, part of the Happy Forest clan led… More

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Art House & International, Action & Adventure
In Theaters
Jan 16, 1993 Wide
Tai Seng

Critic Reviews

  • Paul Chambers, Movie Chambers

    It would have been less of a yawn to watch more fully-developed characters and plotting. More substance and less midair kicks.

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  • Tsubaki S


    Throw-everything-at-your-face old school wuxia crazyness. The credits say it was written by just one person, but you can tell there was probably a dozen of hands writting everything from stand alone scenes to one or two dialogues. What truly gives the movie it's juice is the… More

  • xGary X


    In these post Hero and House Of Flying Daggers (which actually has some ideas and sequences in common with this) times we have come to expect rather more from martial arts stories. The action is non-stop and impressively staged, and it has all the same ingredients; balletic fight… More

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