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Do fans used as weapons appear in any good martial arts films?

Chinese and Japanese martial arts use different kinds of fans with different techniques for combat. In The Last Samurai, we briefly see someone practicing with one, and you can find it frequently in anime, but I don't know of any live action films where we see a display of fan combat comparable to what we've seen with other weapons in kung-fu movies. I'm hoping there are some well-done wushu films from China where the fan gets a good action sequence.

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1. You can try movies like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and House of Flying Daggers. You should also check out The Young Master: http://imdb.com/title/tt0081499/ There's a very infamous iron fan fighting scene in this movie. It took 329 takes.