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The Bodyguard

2016 · 98 min

A fast, earnest martial-arts melodrama that mixes bone-crunching fights with a rough-hewn romance and a revenge-driven undercurrent.

Directed by
Yue Song
Genres
Action, Crime, Adventure
Starring
Yue Song, Xing Yu, Li Yu-Fei
Overview
Wu-Lin is the successor of an ancient, once powerful Chinese clan, the "Iron Feet." After the death of his master, Wu-Lin leaves his rural village for the City of Stone-Cold looking for his fellow apprentice Jiang Li. Along the way, he becomes the bodyguard of Fei-Fei, the daughter of Jia-Shan Li, the richest family in the city, and quickly gets drawn into a mob war in order to protect her.

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Directed by
Yue Song
Genres
Action, Crime, Adventure
Starring
Yue Song, Xing Yu, Li Yu-Fei
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • revenge
  • love
  • loyalty
  • betrayal
  • violence
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
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ScaleValue0 to 10
Action8
Horror1
Humour3
Realism4
Romance5
Tension6
Darkness5
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Genres
action, crime, adventure
Directed by
Yue Song
Written by
Yue Song
Starring
Yue Song, Xing Yu, Li Yu-Fei, Collin Chou, Michael Chan Wai-Man, Jiang Baocheng, Xu Dongmei, Yuan Wu
Runtime
98 min
Country
China
Languages
Mandarin

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