There is a "Raiders of the Lost Ark" swordsman feel to it.
Metal god, actor, novelist, swordsman, pilot, DJ - and now screenwriter.
Gladiator, ( Latin: "swordsman," from gladius, "sword") professional combatant in ancient Rome.
Legend has it that General John J. Pershing deterred devout juramentado swordsmen by firing bullets dipped in pig's blood: Muslims don't eat pork and contaminated martyrs don't go to Paradise.
So this scene exists for only one of two reasons: Either (A) we are now supposed to believe Indiana Jones shoots swordsmen all the time -- which kind of dilutes the fun of that Raiders scene -- or (B) it's there so that people watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom will say, "Oh, I get it".
(My translator, Chie, expressed surprise when I declined to book an eight-thousand-yen private room for my weeping session; I assured her that, though the swordsman was a novelty, it would be neither my first nor, in all likelihood, my last time crying in public).
Instead, the swordsman and the duke hit it off and go to Paris together, where there is an illegitimate baby and an impending wedding.
The discarding of body armour made it necessary for the swordsman to be able to parry with his weapon, and the thrust-and-parry rapier came into use.
He took it even further in "Swordsman II" (1991), in which the action-choreographer Ching Siu-Tung staged fights on top of stalks of grass and combatants swirled in the sky.
If it was four swordsmen vs 2 owlbears though then it's the sword guys each double teaming the owlbears, drastic difference in expected tactics.
