ONE ARMED SWORDSMAN TRILOGY 獨臂刀系列 (Mandarin Movie) 3 X DVD ENGLISH SUBTITLES (REGION 3)
ONE ARMED SWORDSMAN TRILOGY 獨臂刀系列 (Mandarin Movie) 3 X DVD ENGLISH SUBTITLES (REGION 3)
Cast: : Jimmy Wang , Ti Lung , David (John) Chiang
Director : Chang Cheh
Language : Mandarin
Subtitles : English, Traditional Chinese,
System : NTSC
Disc Format : 3 X DVD
Screen Format : Widescreen
Sound System : Dolby Digital
Duration : 110 mins, 101 mins, 93 mins
Release Date : 2010
Publisher : IVL HK
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One Armed Swordsman (1967)
When the Golden Sword School finds itself under siege, it is up to a faithful disciple (Guk Fung) to put his life on the line to protect both his master and his fellow students. Tragically, the brave hero is killed in the process, but before he dies, he passes on his precious Broken Sword and convinces Master Qi Rufeng (Ting Fung) to accept his son Fang Gang as his own. The film then flashes forward to follow the adventures of a now grown-up Fang (Jimmy Wang Yu), who has become the top student at the martial arts school. Even so, he is hated by his jealous classmates. One snowy evening, a dejected Fang meets up with a group of students led by the master's spoiled daughter (Pan Yin Tze). When Fang refuses to fight her, the daughter becomes enraged and chops off his arm!
Miraculously, Fang escapes with his life and crosses paths with a pretty country girl named Hsiao Man (Chiao Chiao). She plays nursemaid to the fallen hero and eventually shares her father's half-burned kung fu manual with him as well. With renewed determination, Fang Gang adapts to his handicap, becoming a formidable warrior in his own right. But his newfound mastery of martial arts is challenged when he discovers that the Golden Sword School is once again under attack by the same villains who murdered Fang Gang's father! Will he return to the school to defend it as his father did before him? Or will he retire from the world of martial arts as he promised Hsiao Man?
Return of the One Armed Swordsman (1969)
Everything is bigger than ever in this action-packed sequel that brings the retired one-armed hero Fang back into the jiang hu world. After the events of The One Armed Swordsman, single-arm hero Fang (Jimmy Wang) went into retirement with his wife. However, a band of brutal sword masters have taken over the jiang hu world, forcing the masters of all schools to cut off their arms. Out of the desperate pleads of the students, Fang agrees to help. With each of the sword masters taking a unique style, Fang will have to figure out how to take them down one by one.
The New One Armed Swordsman (1971)
For the grand finale of the influential trilogy, Chang replaced Jimmy Wang with the rising duo of David Chiang and Ti Lung, who would go on to become big stars in their own right and a regular fixture in Chang's films celebrating the aesthetics of masculinity and heroic violence. The evil Lung I-Chi (Ku Feng) fears Lei Li's (David Chiang) famous twin swords, so he hatches a plot to frame him and make him cripple his own right arm. After that, Lei is determined to stay away from the martial world, and he hides in a small inn incognito. There, he finds companionship in the blacksmith's daughter Ba Jiao (Li Ching). One day, a couple of thugs working for Lung make unwelcome advances on Ba, fortunately a righteous swordsman named Feng Chun-Chieh (Ti Lung) helps beat them off. Feng and Lei become sworn brothers, and when Lung murders Feng in a duel, a devastated Lei vows to avenge him with his only arm and single blade.