The Legend of the Swordsman

(1992)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 132 votes

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Adventure

Year: 1992

Runtime: 107 мин

Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan

Director: 程小東

Cast: 林青霞, Джет Ли, 關之琳, 李嘉欣, Ли Цзы Сюн, 余安安, 袁潔瑩, 刘洵, 任世官, 錢嘉樂

Plot

Ling Wu Chung decides to hide from the chaotic world. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a tribe of snake-wielding women warriors. However, he finds that the tribe have been attacked, and their leader Yam Ying Ying has been abducted.

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.