Original title:一代劍王 / Yī dài jiàn wáng
Year: 1968 / 1979
Country: Taiwan
Region code: B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5060000705256
Image: 2.35:1 (1080p)
Audio: Mandarin - LPCM Mono
Subtitles: English
Rating: 18
Genre: Action
Cast: Tien Peng, Tsao Tsien
Director: Joseph Kuo
Synopsis:
A tale of honor and revenge by a celebrated master of wuxia cinema, Joseph Kuo!
Having witnessed the brutal slaying of his entire family as a small child, Tsai Ying-jie (Tien Peng, A Touch of Zen ) spends several years wandering in search of those responsible. After years in training, he intends to use his expert swordsmanship to exact violent revenge on Yun Chun-chung (Tsao Tsien, Dragon Inn ) and his four accomplices, who murdered his father in order to obtain a legendary weapon known as the Spirit Chasing Sword . But after dispatching several rival swordsmen that stand in the way of his righteous vengeance, Tsai comes to contemplate the futile nature of revenge after Yun Chun-chung's daughter, Flying Swallow (Polly Shang-Kuan Ling-Feng, Back Alley Princess ), saves his life.
Followed by The Bravest Revenge and The Ghost Hill , The Swordsman of All Swordsmen is the first entry in Joseph Kuo's Tsai Ying-jie trilogy and a landmark work in the wuxia genre. Eureka Classics is proud to present the film for the first time ever in the UK from a new 2k restoration, along with Kuo's influential kung fu masterpiece The Mystery of Chess Boxing, available ONLY in this Limited-Edition set.
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