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Last night Eryn and I went to Bastard Swordsman at the Trylon.  It's a Shaw Brothers film.  Usually those are slightly rooted in reality.  This one was downright strange and almost scifi-ish.  The main character, the bastard, learns "silkworm style" with his sister, girlfriend, and mother.  He finds out he's a bastard because while his non-biological father was sequestered for two years conserving energy for his "lethal style", his mother slept with his biological father.  Hence....bastard.

The trick to silkworm style is that it requires a male virgin and three women.  I'm not sure if anyone else was a virgin, but none of them seemed to have simultaneous access to three women.  They work together to fill him with feminine power.
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Why? Because it results in silkworm skills.  Including an actual cocoon where he fights the bad guy.
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And he can spin silk like a silkworm.  Sort of.  More like a ribbon dancer.

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Eryn and I enjoyed it, but it was definitely different than 36th Chamber or Five Elements Ninjas.