Bandit

This film (drama)Also known as山賊，is aHong Kong, ChinaProducerwomen sex，At1966Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin Chinese，Current Douban rating6.9(For reference only)。

In the early Republic of China, bandits roamed the northeastern regions. The wandering hero Xiao Kai accidentally met the wanderer Zhu Jingxu, and the two formed a bond, traveling together to Zhongyuan Village in the Old Dragon Valley. Kai and Xu stayed at an inn and encountered the innkeeper’s daughter, Mu Cuiying. Ying harbored a secret affection for Kai, but due to Kai's unknown identity, she remained wary. In the village, the merchant Ding Sibao conspired with the bandit leader Hong Laoda, allowing the bandits to plunder the village, causing the villagers great suffering. Kai and Xu could not stand idly by and bravely helped the villagers fend off the bandits. Unexpectedly, a Xinjiang horse trader who was friendly with the villagers mistook Kai for a horse thief, forcing Kai and Xu to leave Zhongyuan Village. Seeing the situation was ripe, Hong launched another attack on the villagers; fortunately, at a critical moment, Kai and Xu returned and annihilated the bandits. Film Review Excerpt: "Bandit" has been too directly influenced by Japanese cinema, so much so that while it somewhat expresses the toughness of the northeastern mustachioed men and the vast snowy mountains, it still lacks a Chinese national style. Without screenwriter Hu Jinquan's extensive use of northeastern dialect in the dialogues to enhance the regional flavor, one might even suspect that it is a product of a Japanese martial arts film mixed with an American cowboy movie shoddily transplanted to China. The greatest asset of Pan Lei is the flexible use of the camera; regarding the momentum of the galloping horse herd... one side boldly employs skilled techniques of shooting in sync with the horses' movements, capturing the thundering hooves and swift dust clouds, while the other side appropriately uses medium and long shots to capture the vibrant and gallant postures of the reined-in horses. (He Sen: "Bandit," China Student Weekly, February 11, 1966, Issue 708) Filmed in Taiwan's Daxueshan. The film utilized one hundred and fifty fine horses, costing up to one hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars, and hired a demolition expert from Japan's Nikkatsu Corporation to participate in the production of the battle scenes in the film.