Cho Yi-Hang is the successor to the Wu-Tang clan but he's not really up for the job. The clan is fighting wars against different foreign tribes but their biggest enemies are the so-called evil cult. One day Cho Yi-Hang meets a beautiful girl and instantly falls in love with her and she falls for him as well, only to find out that he's part of the Wu-Tang clan while she's a member of the evil cult. So he wants out of his cult and she wants out of hers so that they can be together but their different cults does not like the fact that they are seeing each other and plan to leave the cults and a lot of problems arise for the young lovers.
Over the years I've seen The Bride with White Hair many times and it's surely is a HK favourite. Good thing about this movie except for the good story and so on is that it mixes many genres together and the way it comes out is just great.
It has a romantic story which actually is a tragic love story and mixes in everything from sword fighting and martial arts to horror and fantasy elements.
The Bride with White Hair is almost like a HK Romeo & Juliet story only with a lot of other elements in it too. It has a great atmosphere going and this fantasy feeling to the movie as well.
 
The are some over-the-top acting by the weird leaders in the evil cult but other than that the actors all do an ok job. There's one version with subtitles and one dubbed and I guess I don't even have to tell you since it's obvious which version to stay away from.
It actually has some gore but this is so not the main reason for watching it, but it's still nice to have a little to lighten things up I guess.
It's basically a romatic love story but with a lot of action and fighting in it so just because it's romantic does not make it a chick-flick or anything even remotely close to it. It's pure HK entertainment and the movie is fast paced and features some both stupid and too cute kind of humour at times but it's easy to ignore and some of the humour actually works quite well too so there's not really any bigger reason to complain.
If you want a HK flick that has a little of everything to offer, and is very entertaining, then this might be a good pick. From the man who later directed Bride of Chucky.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Bai fa mo nu zhuan
MOVIE YEAR: 1993
DIRECTOR: Ronny Yu
WRITING CREDITS: Kei To Lam, Yusheng Liang
GENRE: Fantasy, Horror, Adventure, Romance, Action
CAST: Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Francis Ng
COUNTRY: Hong Kong
RUNTIME: 92 min
RATING: 8/10
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