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For me the most moving deaths are in Twin Warrior starring Jet Li.
Basically Jet Li's closest friend Jin Bo (they were Buddhist Monks together) has joined the oppressive army in his quest for power, and of course, Jet Li has to fight for good with his band of 'merry men'. Jin Bo, at the early stage, however, still has the element of trust (he had just joined, he would sneak out to be with Jet Li, etc) and was considered a good guy. Then he tells Jet Li about a military attempt to invade a province and that if they acted now and attacked the sparsely attended war camp it would be prevented. So, Jet Li, trusting his oldest and closest friend, goes with his merry men and attacks, only to find that it's a trap. He has been betrayed. All of a sudden you see an absolute OCEAN of soldiers surround Jet Li's people, and on the word, Jin Bo fronts the attack on them. They are absolutely surrounded. If you saw the film you'd think "shit, this is fucking hopeless". So they fought on bravely, nine or ten vesus a couple hundred thousand (tha ones at the back fill the spaces of fallen soldiers, thus maintaining the formation), and they are one by one by one slain. One guy takes a barrage of spears in his torso and keeps on fighting, then he collapses, and anotha guy jumps in to keep him upright, and he gets slain, until all but Jet Li and the cowardly doctor (who smears himself with blood and feigns death!) and another guy are left, and are saved by a lasso and a horse. The scene zooms out with the sight of one girl fighting on bravely while the formation of soldiers gets tighter and closer.
She, of course, is slain, but in person by Jin Bo (who used to love her).
Fucking sad shit man. I don't care.
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