The Magic Blade (Tien ya ming yue dao) (1976)

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Bill Gibron, DVDTalk.com
The Magic Blade fulfills all the requirement of the genre - it has amazing stuntwork and an almost mystical sense of what makes for eye-popping action.

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Tsubaki S

A good ol "you think your kung fu is better than my kung fu?" wuxia extravaganza, with fights almost every five minutes. Ti Lung goes around with a poncho and a kickass spinning blade, there are fights involving chinese human chess formations, and piles of enemies forming… More
A good ol "you think your kung fu is better than my kung fu?" wuxia extravaganza, with fights almost every five minutes. Ti Lung goes around with a poncho and a kickass spinning blade, there are fights involving chinese human chess formations, and piles of enemies forming chinese characters. Don't even try to follow the plot or you'll get a headache, enjoy the wuxia madness, plain and simple.