Dragon Gate Inn

Dragon Inn (Chinese: 龍門客棧, also known as Dragon Gate Inn) is a 1967 Taiwanese wuxia film written and directed by King Hu. The story of eunuch from the imperial court who orders the execution of the respected General Yu and then tries to wipe out the last vestiges of his family. A small, disparate band of warriors engage the tyrant's secret police force at a far away isolated inn. King Hu had recently left Hong Kong to Taiwan where he set-up the short-lived Union Film Company. The film was shot in 1966. The film was released in 1967, and set box‐office records in Taiwan, Korea, and the Philippines. Dragon Inn received positive retrospective reviews in Empire, Radio Times and Sight & Sound, with critic Michael Brooke of the latter magazine referring to the film as "one of the most important wuxia pian films to emerge from the Chinese-speaking world prior to the great martial arts boom of the turn of the 1970s." The film was remade in 1992 as New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) and Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011).