The Sentimental Swordsman (1977)

Original title

多情劍客無情劍

Directed by

Chor Yuen

Genre

drama film, action film, martial arts film

Country

British Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

16

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A skilled swordsman with a romantic heart returns to his homeland and gets entangled in a web of rivalry and old flames. He must navigate treacherous alliances and deadly duels while protecting those he loves.

melancholicaction-packeddramaticromanticswordsmantragicheroicnostalgic

What happens

The Sentimental Swordsman (多情劍客無情劍) is a 1977 Hong Kong wuxia film written and directed by Chor Yuen and produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. It starred Ti Lung, Derek Yee, Ching Li, Elliot Ngok, Fan Mei-sheng, and Ku Feng. The film is adapted from the novel Duoqing Jianke Wuqing Jian of the Xiaoli Feidao Series by Gu Long. The Sentimental Swordsman was one of the Shaw Brothers Studio's highest grossing films, and was followed by a 1981 sequel, Return of the Sentimental Swordsman. In 1982, the Shaw Brothers Studio released Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman, which is not related to the Xiaoli Feidao Series but adapted from the Lu Xiaofeng Series also by Gu Long. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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