The Eight Dragon Swords (1972)
- Original title
- Long xing ba jian
- Directed by
- Sheng-En Chin
- Genre
- action film, adventure film, martial arts film, Eastern
- Country
- Taiwan
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 3.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
This is a Taiwanese martial arts film from 1972. A young swordsman is tricked into stealing a magical ball from a mansion. He must learn to use eight special swords to fight a masked villain and rescue a woman.
fast-pacedaction-packedclassiclighthearteddramaticsword-fightingenergeticstraightforward
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The Fist That Kills (1972)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.
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