An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty

A sword through a silk screen. A poem written in wine on a tavern wall. In the decadent twilight of the Tang Dynasty, a woman named Yu Xuanji chooses freedom over the gilded cage of a concubine. She becomes a courtesan poet, wielding her intellect and desires as sharply as any blade, navigating a world of scholars, rebels, and assassins. This 1984 romantic action-drama paints a vivid, unapologetic portrait of a woman defying the strictures of her time, where passionate affairs and violent intrigue are intertwined verses in the epic of her life.