The Warrior's Way (2010)
Actors:
David Magdael (miscellaneous crew),
Danny Huston (actor),
Barrie M. Osborne (producer),
Geoffrey Rush (actor),
Andy Wickens (miscellaneous crew),
Jess Platt (miscellaneous crew),
Lung Ti (actor),
Tony Cox (actor),
Kate Bosworth (actress),
Javier Navarrete (composer),
David M. Rodriguez (miscellaneous crew),
Timothy White (producer),
Jed Brophy (actor),
James Acheson (costume designer),
Michael Peyser (producer),
Plot: Yang, the world's finest swordsman, packs it in and leaves Japan to find an old friend in the Wild West rather than kill the infant queen of a rival clan. He carries the baby to his friend's desolate, broken-down town; the friend has died, so Yang reopens a laundry and settles down, hanging wet clothes, growing flowers, raising the infant, and finding himself attracted to Lynne, a red-haired woman with a tragic past. As long as Yang keeps his sword sheathed, his rivals won't find him, but a band of reprobate gunmen terrorize the town and threaten Lynne. Showdowns are inevitable, but once the sword is drawn, can Yang find rest, a home, and a family?
Keywords: 19th-century, alcoholic, ambiguous-ending, anti-hero, assassin, attempted-rape, baby, bamboo-forest, bare-chested-male, bathtub
Genres:
Action,
Fantasy,
Western,
Taglines: A Hero Will Stand Assassin. Hero. Legend.
Quotes:
Lynne: Do we win?::Yang: We survived. Some of us.
[last lines]::Assassin: How much?::Yang: [frozen fish to the eye] Free.
Lynne: You are going to take me for a spin, or what?
Colonel: I'll see you in hell, little girl. Wear something nasty.
Saddest Flute: You came to me to be strong, I have made you the strongest.
[first lines]::Ronald: Okay, you settled down? You got your ears open? [clears throat] This is the story of the sad flute, a laughing baby, a weeping sword. A long long time ago, in a land far far away, there lived a warrior. A warrior with empty eyes.
Ronald: [narrating] The warrior learned there's a heck of a lot more pleasure making things grow, than there is in cutting them down.
Lynne: [throwing knives blindfolded] You dead?::Yang: Not yet.
Yang: We are called sad flutes because when you cut the throat, the last sound is like a sad flute.::Lynne: Dang! Skinny, you sure know how to throw a dang cat in a party room, don't cha.
Colonel: He's your ah, marito? My apologies. I am not the kind of man that sleeps with a married woman. No. [shoots them both dead] Oh, but their daughters. Oh, that's a completely different matter.