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Rating: 7 stars

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All movies seen on 04/03/2024

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Swift Sword (1980)

Directed by Ho Meng-Hua

Action | Adventure | Eastern

Overview

Starring a menagerie of established Shaw Brothers’ talent like kung-fu comedienne, Wang Yu, female kung-fu fighter Hui Ying-hung (the lady Michelle Yeoh tries to emulate) and perennial bad guy Lo Lieh, it’s a movie about cross people and crossed swords where our heroes discover that gold is not as precious as friendship.

Length 85 minutes

Actors

Yue Wong | Nau Nau | Lo Lieh | Lily Li Li-Li | Ling Yun | Kara Hui | Chiang Tao | Bruce Tong Yim-Chaan | Wai Wang | Dick Wei | Chan Shen | Ng Hong-Sang | Teresa Ha Ping | Austin Wai

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Another v good Shaw Production that hasn’t yet found its way to any of the recent Shaw sets but hopefully it will get a future release bc it’s a lot of fun. This badass dude portrayed by Ling Yun gets F’d over by the Cold-blooded Five led by Lieh Lo to start this adventure that fast forwards 10 years into the future. Then it becomes the usual plotting to get revenge on those evil five. The daughter portrayed by Esther Niu Niu is great even tho she’s masquerading as a man which is always amusing bc it’s obvious she’s not.

The only story error (unless the subtitles are incorrect) is that her mother notes that the daughter wasn’t born yet when her father was killed by the evil five… ten years after he was killed when the daughter is clearly older than 10 years. ofc I can let little things like that slide but just weird they didn’t just write a different story or advance the timeline 15 years, which would’ve been more plausible. No matter this is still quite fun and even gives my fave Kara Wai a nice supporting role (plus the friction between her and the daughter is hilarious).

Watched via youtube a very standard edition w/burned in subs first half on my phone where it appeared fine then viewing the second half on my macbook and it looked muddy but watchable. Fingers crossed this gets a restored HD release. Slight but very fun for the adventure story and cast (also love the attack formations of the evil five).

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