The Swordsman (1990)

Original title

笑傲江湖

Directed by

Raymond Lee, Yeung-Wah Kam, King Hu, Ching Siu-tung

Genre

action film, martial arts film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

2h

Rated

16

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 93 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A loyal swordsman stumbles on a conspiracy involving a hidden martial arts manual and a powerful court eunuch. He gets caught in a violent struggle between rival factions seeking the manual for themselves.

fast-pacedswashbucklingintensedramaticchaoticvisually ornatenostalgicvengeful

What happens

The Swordsman (笑傲江湖), also known as Swordsman, is a 1990 Hong Kong wuxia film loosely adapted from the novel The Smiling Proud Wanderer by Jin Yong. King Hu was credited as the director although he allegedly left the project midway, and the film was completed by a team led by producer Tsui Hark. It was followed by two sequels: Swordsman II (1992) and The East Is Red (1993). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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