Meaningful Name: Mud Buddha's name comes from the Chinese adage "a mud buddha, if brought across a river, cannot protect itself".Love Triangle: Wind, Cloud, and Charity encouraged by Lord Conquer in an effort to turn Wind and Cloud against one another. ![]() Cloud tears the arm off and uses the blood to attack Lord Conquer. Life-or-Limb Decision: When Cloud fights Lord Conquer in the tomb, Lord Conquer breaks all the bones in his arm.Improvised Weapon: Lord Conquer and Wind's father Whispering Prince duel in a bamboo grove with said bamboos, which get whittled from massive 10-foot affairs down to 3-foot slivers.Gotta Catch Them All: Lord Conquer is obsessed with collecting the world's four best swords.Wind specialises in kicks while Cloud and Frost deliver palm strikes and punches. Extremity Extremist: Detailed by the martial arts techniques and even lampshaded at one point.Evil Hand: Summit Yu's Fire Beast Arm acts like this because he isn't its true master."Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The main theme is sung by Cheng Ekin, who plays Wind, and the tune you hear when Charity is laid to rest is sung by Aaron Kwok, who plays Cloud.Clash of Evils, in following comic canon, reveals that he survived. Disney Death: Cloud in Storm Warriors.Close-Call Haircut: Phoenix's arrow cuts a few strands of hair from Cloud's head.Casting Gag: the sequel features Kenny Ho, who starred in Hongkong's early manhua Live-Action Adaptation of Chinese Hero as lead character Hua Yingxiong - who was played by Cheng Ekin (Wind) in the movie version.Bloody Murder: Cloud can manipulate water, including his own blood if necessary.Blood Magic: The Life's Best Sword can only be awakened (read: made to extend itself out of the ground to epic soundtrack) with the blood of Cloud and his father.Actor Allusion: Conquer shatters the bones of Cloud's arm with an X-ray view of the damage, borrowed from Sonny Chiba's The Street Fighter movies.There is a 2009 sequel titled The Storm Warriors and an Animated Adaptation, Storm Riders: Clash of Evils. The English-dubbed version released in the United States was badly Macekred, with large cuts making the plot nearly impossible to follow the uncut subbed version is far superior. The movie is notable for being the first Wu Xia movie to extensively use CGI special effects. Then Mud Buddha reveals the prophecy for the second half of his life: as Wind and Cloud were responsible for his rise to power, so too will they be responsible for his downfall. Ten years later, he is well on his way to conquering the world. Lord Conquer sets out to find Wind and Cloud, killing their fathers and raising them himself. Lord Conquer ( Sonny Chiba) is a warlord who is told by the prophet Mud Buddha that if he finds and trains two young martial artists, Cloud and Wind, then he will be invincible for the first half of his life. But most important is who is using the sword.įung wan: Hung ba tin ha (known in English as The Storm Riders), is a 1998 Wuxia movie based on a long-running Manhua by Ma Wing Shing (writer of Chinese Hero). However, Wind and Cloud soon discover their true past and unite to defeat the evil Conqueror.A good sword can help a novice, and make an expert really powerful. They helped Conqueror to dominate the world. Golden Harvest (China) Company Limited (Hong Kong)Ĭonqueror (Sonny Chiba) adopted the two boys Wind and Cloud and taught them important skills.
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