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King Hu’s landmark martial arts film is like getting several films in one. Hu combines a political mystery with a siege story with a ghost story with a metaphysical battle between good and evil. It was the first Chinese film to win a prize at Cannes; it won the technical grand prize and was nominated for the Palme d’or. Many martial arts fantasies, such as CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON and THE HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, were inspired by this wuxia classic.

Ku Chen Chai (Chun Shih, DRAGON GATE INN) is a clumsy scholar and painter who lives with his mother in an old abandoned fort. A traveling warrior Ouyang Nin (Tin Peng, MAGNUM FIST) comes to his stand and asks for his portrait painted… and for some questions answered. He’s looking for someone. Meanwhile, Chen Chai’s mother wants to introduce her son to their new neighbor Yang Hui-Ching (Hsu Feng, DRAGON GATE INN), because she is desperate for her son to marry and have kids so that the Ku name will carry on. When she mentions the government exams Chen Chai keeps avoiding, Ouyang offers his help, but Chen Chai is content with his simple life. But his simple life will be completely disrupted when he gets involved in the plot of a corrupt eunuch who wants to have the entire family of a whistleblower killed.
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