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Combat At Heaven Gate

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Combat At Heaven Gate	label	Combat At Heaven Gate
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Combat At Heaven Gate	comment	Combat At Heaven Gate is a 1993 action film starring Sibelle Hu, heavily inspired by the Indiana Jones movies.Sibelle Hu plays Jean Fong, a student in 1940s China who is an Adventurer Archaeologist in training, and one of two proteges of her explorer father, Professor Chen, the other being her half-Japanese friend and partner Kawatomo. When an ancient scroll of great power from the Three Kingdoms era surfaces in the rural Chinese mountains, the Yakuza wants to get it, and it's up to Jean and Kawatomo to stay ahead of them, but for Kawatomo in particular, an old, long-forgotten enemy of her past is coming back to haunt her.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_138d573	type	Knows the Ropes
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_138d573	comment	In the final scene, while being cornered by mooks, Kawatomo shows that she Knows the Ropes by using her flail to grab two heavy-machine guns held by two mooks, pulling those weapons close to her which allows her to start shooting back.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Jean, in spite of being a fighter and all-round badass, still clings rather closely to her father, a single parent.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_262861e1	type	Blade on a Stick
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_262861e1	comment	Blade On A Stick: Takaji's weapon, which he seems to whip from out of nowhere (Hammerspace?) whenever he needs it,
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_2bfb1856	type	Beard of Evil
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_2bfb1856	comment	Beard of Evil: On Kanko, the Big Bad.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_36ed5d0b	type	Rule of Sexy
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_36ed5d0b	comment	Rule of Sexy: There isn't really a reason why Lin-lin needs her own Walking Swimsuit Scene-slash-Shower Scene, where she gets herself completely wet while wearing a tight figure-hugging one-piece (and clearly wearing nothing underneath) just to distract Mr. Lan. Other than because it's sexy, and action films need a bit of Fanservice every now and then?
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_44dd01be	type	Tagalong Kid
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_44dd01be	comment	Tagalong Kid: Paul, the son of Mr. Lan, who ends up tagging along in the adventure for the scrolls.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: When Kawatomo and Kanko finally faces each other one-on-one, Kanko braces himself for a big fight, making a bunch of flashy martial arts moves and prepares to intercept Kawatomo's attacks. Kawatomo whips out a small pistol and shoots Kanko in the kneecap instead.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: Jean and her father, Professor Chen, a father-daughter team of Adventurer Archaeologist and elite fighters.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_5c0902e7	type	Boyish Short Hair
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_5c0902e7	comment	Boyish Short Hair: Jean, being played by Sibelle Hu, as usual, but this time she's not the only one, with Kawatomo sporting a similar fashion.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_5c91635a	type	Bare-Handed Blade Block
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_5c91635a	comment	Barehanded Blade Block: Kanko somehow managed to block Takaji's massive halberd with his bare hands, and then snap its blades. Before using it to stab Takaji through his chest using his own blade.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_6f66bef7	type	But Not Too Foreign
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_6f66bef7	comment	But Not Too Foreign: Kawatomo, the other half of the Action Girl duo, is only half-Japanese. Professor Chen actually reminds her not to forget her Chinese heritage from her mother's side after their mission.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_967809be	type	Small Girl, Big Gun
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_967809be	comment	Small Girl, Big Gun: Kawatomo in the penultimate shootout, where she hijacks a heavy-machine gun almost as big as her and uses it to take names and wipe out a small platoon of Kanko's mooks.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Kawatomo's vendetta towards Kanko becomes one-on-one after Kanko killed her mentor and brother-figure, Takaji.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_a966949	type	TeamNormal
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_a966949	comment	Team Normal: Lin-lin, Jean's college friend who inexplicably gets dragged into the adventure, a non-combatant and regular girl who spends most of the adventure babysitting Paul (see below).
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_a971e83c	type	Hidden Elf Village
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_a971e83c	comment	Hidden Elf Village: Partway through the film, Jean, Kawatomo and their gang had to stop over in an isolated, Japanese-populated village in the Chinese mountains, which is stuck in the Sengoku-era whose denizens are completely unaware the world beyond the mountains have moved on.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_aff29d6f	type	Beauty, Brains and Brawn
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_aff29d6f	comment	Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: In a film with three leading female characters, in respective order: demure and sweet feminine Lin-lin, intellectual star student and genius Jean, and ass-kicking badass who is an expert with firearms Kawatomo.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Lin-lin, being the token Girly Girl in a film whose main characters are all ass-kicking action babes, she spends most of her time in tight-fitting jeans, wearing her long hair loose... and then there's THAT Shower Scene.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_bb040b01	type	Cool Guns
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_bb040b01	comment	Cool Guns: Being set in the 1940s, Mausers are the preferred weapon of Kanko's mooks. Kawamoto ends up using one to kill him.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_bc8271df	type	In a Single Bound
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_bc8271df	comment	In a Single Bound: Jean and Kawatomo can both scale long distances and great heights simply by jumping, evidently in their first scene when they climb up a pagoda to retrieve a pair of sacred orbs on its top level.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_bcac7f63	type	Distant Prologue
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_bcac7f63	comment	Distant Prologue: The opening scene is set in the Three Warring Kingdoms era, and depicts the origin of the scrolls and how they end up entombed in the ancient shrine.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To the entire Indiana Jones trilogy. The scene where the keys to the vault gets chucked into a burning fire, before being stuck into a henchman's forehead, leaving a mark behind, is a rather obvious reference to the medallion being burned in to Toht's palm in Raiders of the Lost Ark. And then there's Kawatomo and Kanko about to fight each other to the death, but Kawatomo instead opts to shoot Kanko on the spot. Just like what Indy did to the swordsman who challenged him. The cavern where the ancient scroll is located should be familiar to anyone who has watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The chamber where the scroll is kept can only be accessed by an invisible bridge, and upon reaching it the scroll turns out to be guarded by a few thousand-year-old guardians from dynasties ago, made immortal by the scroll's powers until someone retrieves it. And the real scroll is hidden in more than 50 dummy scrolls. After escaping the collapsing scroll chamber, Jean and her team ends up tethering on the edge of a cliff while the chamber collapses on the other side, not unlike the same predicament Indy, Wille and Short Round ends up in the end of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Jean Fong and Kawatomo, the badass duo of the film.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_e913fe74	type	Epic Flail
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_e913fe74	comment	Epic Flail: Jean and Kawatomo both can use rope darts as weapons with lethal accuracy, or simply use it to retrieve objects (such as two glass orbs in the middle of a booby-trapped room) from a distance. In the final scene, while being cornered by mooks, Kawatomo shows that she Knows the Ropes by using her flail to grab two heavy-machine guns held by two mooks, pulling those weapons close to her which allows her to start shooting back.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_f018c5cf	type	Offhand Backhand
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_f018c5cf	comment	Offhand Backhand: How Kawatomo takes down Kanko in the aftermath of their one-on-one battle. Using a Mauser.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Lan, who is too preoccupied in watching Lin-lin showering herself while in a very tight and revealing one-piece, complete with a bit of Show Some Leg. To the point that he's still gazing her before getting knocked out by a Tap on the Head.
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Combat At Heaven Gate / int_f8600b	type	Cool Big Sis
Combat At Heaven Gate / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: Lin-lin, after spending quite some time with token little kid Paul, ends up becoming quite fond of him. The feeling is pretty mutual, with Paul quickly following Lin-lin wherever she goes.
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