If you’re not familiar with Dynasty Warriors, it’s a series of games by Koei Tecmo which are set during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. Rather than dry historical retellings though, they’re fantastic romps in which you choose a character and then beat up hundreds or thousands of men on vast battlefields. Not too dissimilar to the trailer above, then. It’s obviously not uncommon for Asian movies to blend history and fantasy together, but it’s joyous to see Dynasty Warriors treated like the daft fun the games are. It’s also nice to see them made with an obviously considerable budget. I also enjoyed the combination of low tech solutions and high-tech digital fakery in this little behind-the-scenes clip: Unfortunately, there’s no announced western release date yet. The movie finished filming back in 2018, but Covid-19 has delayed its release in Hong Kong and China till later this month.
