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Hans Larwin(1873-1938) Soldat und Tod 1917

In 1983, Tony Ching Siu-Tung directed his first film and while others (like Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen) were focusing more on modern kickboxing-style stuff, he decided to go for a more traditional swordplay film. And in doing so, he made one of the best wuxia films ever made (in my opinion). Duel to the Death is known for its classic final fight scene…and it is definitely classic. But no one ever brings this fight scene up and I love it. Two swordsmen…in a forest…against a million ninjas? What’s not to love? And for an 80′s film, it still looks like the bee’s knees. This is as close to a live action anime as you’ll get from the 80′s. It feels very Ninja Scroll-ish. It’s not trying to be artsy like some modern swordplay films. It’s just straight up cool as shit. Sadly, this film is 40 quid on Amazon.co.uk (here) and $30 on Amazon.com (here) but I being you good news! It’s free on Prime Video. For those of you only dabbling with kung fu films, I recommend this one as a nice slice of swordplay. It’s entirely unpretentious and might open your eyes yo the wuxia sub genre.

character idea: Elf who was too BOMB for the traditional, dainty elves and left to become the strongest and angriest elf of all time.

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Sketch Rex who is in middle of training!

Original reddit post here

“Dragon and Tiger by Yoshimura Kōkei (1769-1863)

T-T-T-T-TINY HARUHIKO-KUN!!!!!! *dies from cute*

~dakazu

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