When the women of her time had their feet bound to please men, Qiu Jin was already questioning the sexual inequality of feudal traditions. Free-spirited and well-educated, she grew up practicing martial arts and was as well versed in poetry as she was in sword-fighting. When this rebellious girl moved to Beijing with her husband, she witnessed how her country was raided and ravaged by foreign powers. With the encouragement of her neighbor Wu Zhiying, the wife of righteous magistrate Li Zhongyue, Qiu Jin left her family behind to pursue study in Japan. There, she met some like-minded schoolmates who shared her ideals, including revolutionary leader Xu Xilin, and secretly joined his anti-Qing cause. After returning to China, Qiu Jin participated in the uprisings staged by Xu Xilin, leading a small group of hot-blooded students against the armed forces of the corrupt Qing government...
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The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake was released in 2011 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 5 reviews, giving The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake (2011) an average rating of 55%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 76%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 55%, The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2011, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2011 with similar scores include films like The Thing, I Am Number Four and Johnny English Reborn.
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