RED Heroine, a kung fu feast uniting silent film and live music, visits Lighthouse on Wednesday with a live original score performed by the Devil Music Ensemble from the USA.

Wen Yim’s 1929 silent film is the only surviving complete Chinese silent kung fu movie left from the silent era and a prime example of the popular Chinese swordplay genre, wuxia pian, banned after Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

A lively tale of the rise of a woman warrior, it features a blend of kung fu action, humour, drama, revenge, pulp and mystical derring-do.

The Devil Music Ensemble score pulls from the traditions of Chinese classical and folk music, as well as soundtracks from classic kung fu cinema.

It is the only modern score made expressly for this film.