Synopsis
The Storm Riders (1998) is Andrew Lau's Hong Kong wuxia fantasy, ready to watch online on iFILM. Adapted from Ma Wing-shing's hugely popular Fung Wan comic, it became one of Hong Kong's biggest hits of its year and a showcase for the territory's first real wave of digital effects.
A warlord known as Lord Conqueror is chasing a prophecy that promises him invincibility — but only with two elementally gifted youths at his side. So he kills their parents, takes the boys in, and raises Wind and Cloud as weapons, never guessing they might one day turn on him. Ekin Cheng and Aaron Kwok play the sworn brothers, Sonny Chiba their fearsome master, and Shu Qi threads a tragic romance through all the testosterone.
Flying-sword duels, summoned storms, and a tone pitched somewhere near opera: this is the film that set the template for turn-of-the-century epic wuxia. Watch it for scale and style rather than psychology. Stream The Storm Riders (1998) online on iFILM.
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