YMMV / Seven Swords

• Awesome Music: The end credits by Kenji Kawai. Give it a listen.
• Complete Monster: Fire-Wind is a brutal general and former Imperial torturer who takes the edict banning martial arts to engage in mass slaughter for profit. Fire-Wind has countless numbers of innocents slaughtered either for practicing or merely supporting martial arts, up to the elderly and the children, leading to entire villages of people put to the sword by his army. A ruthless abuser of his own subordinates in the meanwhile, Fire-Wind murders his own men for reasons stemming from failure to simply interrupting his private time, and takes glee in terrorizing and assaulting his Korean slave woman Green Pearl. When the noble swordsman Chu frees Green Pearl from Fire-Wind's torment, Fire-Wind attempts to have him ripped limb from limb by chains tied to horses right in front of his allies.
• Tear Jerker:
  • When the horses have to be turned loose—including Joy-luck, who keeps trying to follow Han back.
  • Green Pearl getting a glimpse of her far-off homeland.

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