Wuxia-riffic

On the sorts of whims I shouldn't be entertaining, I got a movie at Borders (using a nice coupon) called Joong-cheon (aka The Restless).

It's a Korean wuxia flick. It's awfully purdy.

I just started it. In a nutshell, this guy Yi Gwak, who can see spirits/ghosts/whatever watched his wife, Yon-hwa, get burned alive as a witch for being able to see ghosts (the crazy villagers confused him for her? I dunno...). Later, Yi Gwak was recruited into the Chuhyongdae, a corps of royal demon hunters.

At some point, the royal government outlaws the demon hunters and has them all put down. Yi Gwak escapes and lives as a vagabond, hunting demons. After he rids a village of some demons, some villagers betray him for the price on his head and drug him. He escapes, passes out, and wakes up in an afterlife place called "Joong-cheon" or "Midheaven". In Joong-cheon, souls rest for 49 days before getting an opportunity to reincarnate.

Yi Gwak isn't dead. This causes a bit of bafflement for about ten minutes until a bunch of white-clad warriors (the White Reapers) arrive led by a white-clad young swordswoman who (of course) is the spitting image of Yi Gwak's dead wife.

And then a horde of demons attack, killing all the White Reapers. Yi Gwak rescues this woman, So-hwa, but she can't remember him and... well, it gets more complicated.

And I'm not even done yet.

It's pretty ass-kicking so far. Me likey.