The Warriors Way

A $45 million USA-New Zealand co-production from producers Barrie M. Osbourne (Lord of the Rings), Lee Joo-ick (Battle Of Wits) and Michael Peyser (Speed 2).

This effects-heavy, English-language fantasy actioner stars Jang Dong Gun (The Promise), Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns) and Geoffrey Rush (Pirates Of The Caribbean).

The world’s greatest swordsman abandons his warrior clan to start a new life in the American Badlands in The Warrior’s Way, a visually dazzling modern martial arts adventure with stunningly choreographed fight sequences and gravity-defying stunts. In an original, gorgeously realised journey into a mythical past, writer and director Sngmoo Lee seamlessly marries the cinematic traditions of East and West. Korean superstar Jang Dong Gun, Kate Bosworth, Danny Huston and Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush star in this epic story of revenge and redemption.

Yang (Jang Dong Gun) must betray his clan to save his final enemy – a young baby girl. He travels from Asia to a dying gold rush town in the American West where he goes into hiding by working as a lowly laundryman. Yang attempts to put his past behind him while befriending the local eccentrics of the once-thriving town, the fiery tempered knife-thrower Lynne (Bosworth) and Ron (Rush), the town drunk with a secret past. When Lynne is threatened by a gang led by a Colonel (Danny Huston), Yang comes out of hiding to protect her and the town with his sword skills and finds himself forced to face the past he was hoping to put behind him.