The Warrior's Way is a 2010 New Zealand-South Korean fantasy action film written and directed by Sngmoo Lee and starring Jang Dong-gun, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush, Danny Huston and Tony Cox.
Its plot concerns a 19th-century warrior named Yang (Jang Dong-gun), who is ordered to kill the last member of an enemy clan — a baby girl.
In 19th century Asia, Yang is a warrior and member of Sad Flute's clan, the cruelest assassins in the east.
His personal goal to become the greatest swordsman in the entire world is accomplished when he kills the former champion and leader of the enemy clan.
Among the townspeople Yang meets are a gang of carnival members led by the dwarf Eight-Ball, town drunk Ron and Lynne, a spunky young woman who was friends with Smiley.
Back in the East, Yang's former master Saddest Flute and his warrior army board the same boat to America, killing the entire crew in the process.
His preference to rape women with healthy teeth prompted him to choose Lynne as his victim, but she was able to escape by throwing a pan of boiling grease in his face.
Yang shows her his jedok geom (a Korean single-edged sword), but Lynne notes it is welded to its scabbard.
The Colonel returns to the town to terrorize the people, sporting a frightening mask to hide the grotesque scar from the hot grease.
The Colonel then inspects a lineup of women for their teeth, and chooses a Hispanic woman whose husband begs for mercy.
Eight-Ball and the other carnival members tie Lynne up in a cellar for her own safety and Yang removes her blades, but she manages to free herself with a knife hidden in her boot.
The people are worried they don't have the means to defend themselves, but Eight-Ball has Ron's secret stash of guns and explosives unburied.
Ron is shown to be an expert marksman, shooting a bowling pin down amidst his best liquor from hundreds of feet away.
Perched at the top of the Ferris wheel, Ron is sniping sticks of dynamite hidden in the garden as riders come.
The hooded man, revealed to be Yang, stands up and goes to his shack, where he takes the pendant he had been given by Lynne, his sword disguised as a snowman's broom and April's pacifier before setting the hut on fire.
The website's consensus reads, "Perfectly, thoroughly divisive, The Warrior's Way will either be delightful or unbearable, depending on your tolerance for surreal, shamelessly over the top collisions of eastern and western clichés.
[6] The film grossed $11,087,569 worldwide and had a production budget of $42 million, making the movie a box office bomb.