9 Broken Sword The Blade (1995)
A busted blade wielded by a one-armed swordsman. On a chain. Jet Li's sword-with-a-hole-in from Hero is a nifty gadget for disarming your opponent, but its trumped by Tsui Hark's unusual vision of the sword as a blunt instrument: why enter into close combat when you can whack someone round the head from a distance? Plus, the idea of a damaged sword and a damaged swordsman amounting to a whole being is, like, deep, man. If daft.
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