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The Magnificent Swordsman (1968)

The Magnificent Swordsman (1968)

Action Adventure
Release Date: 1968, May 1
Directors: Griffin Yueh Feng, Cheng Kang
Countries: Hong Kong
Production: Shaw Brothers
Cast: Wei Ping-Ao, Huang Tsung-Hsun, Little Unicorn, Tien Feng, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Fan Mei-Sheng, Ching Miao, Shum Lo, Shu Pei-Pei, Chao Hsiung, Ma Ying, Ng Wai

Overview:

Lone swordsman Jiang Dan-Feng (Wong Chung-Shun) is ambushed by a pair of bandits and quickly despatches them. One of them, as he is dying, asks Jiang to take his personal effects to his sister. This being a Wuxia film, our hero is bound by a strict code of honour, and he agrees. The bandit’s sister, Xiu Xiu (Shu Pei-Pei), is surprisingly forgiving and tells him that he got mixed up in a bad crowd of robbers before he died. As it happens, these self-same bandits are threatening to tear up the village at any moment, and Jiang prepares to defend it despite being despised by the town folk for killing Xiu Xiu’s brother.