Valley of the Shadow of Death
Anthony Wong stars as a church pastor torn between his beliefs and his desire to take revenge on the man who killed his daughter
BFI Southbank, NFT2 | 19 June, 2025 6:20 pm
On a snowy night, a colourful collection of thieves and murderers gather at a remote tavern to rob a visiting corrupt official in this criminally underseen Shaw Brothers classic. A gleefully dark spin on King Hu’s Dragon Inn, the film sees Teddy Yip subverting the genre at every step with a non-stop barrage of devious plot twists, Hitchcockian character reversals and stunningly imaginative kung fu action that mark it as one of the very best wuxia of the early 1970s.
Supported by the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office, London.
