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Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau ( A Chinese Ghost Story II, Once Upon a Time in China, Ashes of Time) as Au Yeung/Ouyang Quan. The main characterĬecilia Yip Tung ( The White-Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom) as Kiddo (Skinny Boy)/Yue Lingshan Samuel Hui Koon-Kit (Laughter of the Water Margins) as Ling Wu Chung/Linghu Chong. Tsui Hark, Director (uncredited), Producer The Subtitles move a little too quickly for me and I found myself rewinding several times to catch missed dialogue. It has original Cantonese as well as English dubbed and English subtitles. My DVD is the “Hong Kong Legends” a UK distributor that ran between 1999 – 2007. Light stepping, exploding bodies, amazing swordplay, specialised martial arts like Blue Phoenix’s use of poisonous animals and more. The action choreography is fantastic and there is plenty off it! It has all the hallmarks that made me fall in love with Wuxia. This kind of confusion is common in older movies from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. Depending on which distributor and production company made the DVD will determine if the subtitles/audio uses Cantonese or Mandarin which will give a slight change in the characters names.
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So there is no difficulty following one movie to the next as each actor portrayed the character properly. Although it should be noted that Lau Shun (who plays the evil Eunuch) plays a different character in all three films. Together they must survive as three factions attempt to retrieve the Sacred Scroll (the name varies depending on subtitles ( Sunflower Manual, Chrysanthemum Manual) which will give those who study it great power.Īlthough the actors change in each movie of the Trilogy (With the exception of Blue Phoenix), the characters themselves do not change. Which is by far my favourite Wuxia sect of all time. Together they get mixed up with an unorthodox martial arts sect the Sun Moon Sect.
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His sidekick “Kiddo” (sometime referred to as Skinny boy depending on the subtitles) played by Cecilia Yip is the youngest member of swordsman from Mount Hua Sect. He is a happy swordsman who likes women, wine, and swordsmanship.
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Set in the Ming Dynasty, Ling Wu-Chung played by Sam Hui, is the main protagonist. Doubly so when you complete it with the next two films. The story is, as you would expect from Jin Yong, very entertaining. However those are not severe enough to ruin the experience of the film. That could explain some of the little issues with the film. After that you have four other directors that are uncredited for completing the film. The legendary King Hu is the credited Director but he left half way through the film. However I think that is more to do with too many directors. However one reviewer did say they tried to put too much into the movie, giving it a slight disjointed feel. The Smiling, Proud Wanderer so I cannot comment on how well it follows the book. I’ve not read Smiling and Proud in the Martial World a.k.a. The Swordsman Trilogy wasn’t packaged that way in North America as they focused on the sequels Swordsman II, and The East is Red. I first watched this film about twenty years ago only after realising it was the first in a trilogy of films. The Swordsman, based on the Jin Yong (Louis Cha) wuxia novel Xiao Ao Jiang Hu (Smiling and Proud in the Martial World) is credited along side Once Upon a Time in China of making wuxia films popular again in Hong Kong in the 90’s.