Swordsman II (1992)

Original title

笑傲江湖II東方不敗

Directed by

Ching Siu-tung

Genre

fantasy film, action film, martial arts film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

R

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 131 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A swordsman from the Mount Hua Sect travels with a woman who secretly loves him. They get caught in a war between invaders and a cult whose leader has become a woman with near-invincible martial arts.

fast-pacedwhimsicaltragicvisually extravagantmelancholicdramaticdreamlikeaction-packedromantic

What happens

Swordsman II (笑傲江湖之東方不敗), also known as The Legend of the Swordsman, is a 1992 Hong Kong wuxia film loosely adapted from the novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer by Jin Yong. It was the second part of a trilogy: preceded by The Swordsman (1990) and followed by The East Is Red (1993). Directed by Ching Siu-tung, Swordsman II starred Jet Li, Brigitte Lin, Rosamund Kwan and Michelle Reis in the leading roles. None of the original cast from the previous film return except Fennie Yuen. Set in Ming dynasty China, the plot follows Linghu Chong, a swordsman from the Mount Hua Sect, who travels the countryside with Yue Lingshan, who secretly loves him. Caught in the war between the invading Japanese and the Sun Moon Cult, they discover that Dongfang Bubai, the evil leader of the Sun Moon Cult, has located the Sacred Scroll, which has transformed him into a woman while improving his martial arts prowess to near-invincibility. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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