It deals with the unrequited love of two seasoned fighters, revenge for a murdered master, and the love and thievery of a governor's daughter. The plot was enough to keep me interested, but the score and fight scenes were what I found especially fantastic. The best of the fight scenes is one in which one of the aforementioned seasoned fighters is battling the aforementioned governor's daughter in a field of giant bamboos. Naturally, the trees are constantly swaying back and forth under their weight, and I must say it was pretty cool to see them swing at each other whenever they made a sway past each other. The only thing I was disappointed with was the death of one of the characters at the end (I'm only partially ruining it for you - at least I'm not saying who died). I got to spend the whole movie seeing people fly around because they were so well trained as fighters, and yet when someone is on the verge of death, the person seeking the antidote rides a horse. Maybe there's a limit to the distance one can fly, but it seems reasonable to me that flying would be much faster. At any rate, this is definitely a movie I would see again.