The Legend of the Swordsman (Xiao ao jiang hu zhi: Dong Fang Bu Bai) (Swordsman II) (1992)
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71% of critics liked it
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76% of users liked it
(7,538 ratings)
With an entirely new set of actors, this movie continues the story from Swordsman (1990). Blademaster and his martial arts school decide to retire to a distant mountain. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a tribe of snake-wielding women warriors. He finds that they have been attacked, and their… More With an entirely new set of actors, this movie continues the story from Swordsman (1990). Blademaster and his martial arts school decide to retire to a distant mountain. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a tribe of snake-wielding women warriors. He finds that they have been attacked, and their leader, Princess Yin-Yin, toward whom he has some romantic feelings, has been abducted. The attacker is her evil uncle Fong, who years before overthrew Yin-Yin's father and took over their sect. Fong also has possession of a sacred scroll which tells how to achieve ultimate martial arts power. Blademaster decides to help Yin-Yin and her imprisoned father, and his romantic complications deepen when his childhood chum and Yin-Yin are joined by a new rival. Blademaster thinks she is an innocent village girl he has saved, but in fact she is Fong! The process of gaining ultimate martial arts power requires self- castration and transmogrification into female form.
- Directed By
- Siu-Tung Ching, Stanley Tong
- Genres
- Art House & International, Action & Adventure
R,
- In Theaters
- Dec 31, 1992 Wide
Critic Reviews
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, Time Out
Camp it may be, and messy, but mundane it ain't.
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Douglas Pratt, DVDLaser
For the uninitiated, much of the action might seem confusing, but for those who have a familiarity with the conventions of the genre, the film's fight scenes are a real kick, getting even wilder and wilder as the film progresses.
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
One of the all-time great classic Hong Kong films.
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Daniel Eagan, Film Journal International
Re-titled Swordsman II is a wild genre ride with unbelievable action
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Robert Roten, Laramie Movie Scope
Dazzling photography and equally dazzling fight scenes.
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Cast
- Adam Cheng
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Jet Li
as Ling Wu Chung
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Brigitte Lin
as Asia the Invincible
- Rosamund Kwan
- Fennie Yuen
- Lau Shun
- Waise Lee
- Candice Yu
- Chin Ka-lok
