Honoring his father's dying words, a young man comes to the dusty desert village of Double Flag Town to claim his bride. Everyone looks down upon him because he looks inept and ignorant. When he kills a man who is attempting to rape his bride, he provokes the wrath of the Lethal Swordsman who is the rapist's brother and also a famous killer. Will our hero choose to escape with his bride or face the Lethal Swordsman? A highly stylized martial-arts film, in the style of Sergio Leone meets Hiroshi Teshigahara.
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Swordsmen in Double Flag Town or The Swordsman in Double Flag Town is a 1991 Chinese film directed by He Ping, starring Gao Wei, Zhang Manna, Chang Jiang, and Sun Haiying. The film is a mix of the wuxia and spaghetti western genres and is the first of director He Ping's thematic trilogy set in the west in China, followed by Sun Valley and Warriors of Heaven and Earth.
