Return of the One-Armed Swordsman, also known as One-Armed Swordsman Return, is a 1969 Hong Kong wuxia

Wuxia

Wuxia is a broad genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of literature, its popularity has caused it to spread to diverse art forms like Chinese opera, manhua , films, television series, and video games...

film directed by Chang Cheh

Chang Cheh

Chang Cheh was Shaw Brothers Studio's best known and most prolific film director, with such films as the Five Venoms, the Brave Archer , the The One-Armed Swordsman, and other classics of wuxia and kung fu film.-Career:Referred to as "The Godfather of Hong Kong cinema", Chang Cheh directed over 100...

 and produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio

Shaw Brothers Studio

The Shaw Brothers Studio , owned by Shaw Brothers Ltd., was the foremost and the largest movie production company of Hong Kong movies.From their distribution base in Singapore where they founded parent company Shaw Organization in 1924, and as a strategic development of their movie distribution...

. The film is a sequel to the 1967 film One-Armed Swordsman

One-Armed Swordsman

One-Armed Swordsman is a 1967 Hong Kong wuxia film produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. Directed by Chang Cheh, it was the first of the new style of wuxia films emphasizing male anti-heroes, violent swordplay and heavy bloodletting...

, with Jimmy Wang and Lisa Chiao Chiao

Lisa Chiao Chiao

Chiao Li Na or Lisa Chiao Chiao, often credited Chiao Chiao, is a Taiwanese film actress best known for her work in Hong Kong cinema. She was employed by the Shaw Studios between 1966 and 1972, where she appeared in films such as A Cause to Kill in 1970.In 1972 she briefly returned to Taiwan,...

 reprising their roles.

Plot

The eponymous character, played by Jimmy Wang, has hung up his signature broken sword and is living peacefully with his wife. However, a band of tyrannical sword masters take over the country, using their own signature styles and unique weapons to conquer all the sword fighting schools. They capture all the masters and teachers of the schools and deliver an ultimatum: all the students must cut off their sword arms and surrender the severed limbs to the evil warlords, or the students' beloved teachers will all die. The students turn to the legendary One-Armed Swordsman, who is at first reluctant but is convinced when a student actually does sacrificially chop his own arm off when he refuses to help. The One-Armed Swordsman must contend with the unique styles and weapons of the warlords, which is what makes the movie. Winged Blade (or Flying Dragon in another translation dub) and his henchmen are able to jump or glide, a power that One-Arm foils by scattering calthrops where they land. Whirling Blade and his henchmen wield and throw two bladed bucklers, which return to them like Captain America

Captain America

Captain America is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 , from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby...

's shield. Thunder Blade's sword both emits a smoke screen and is actually a shotgun. Thousand Blade (or One Thousand Fingers) has long false fingernail blades that she can throw. And Unseen Blade (the Unseen) first appears to have an invisible sword, then suddenly has a sword that can unexpectedly grow longer. In the end the One-Armed Swordsman defeats the warlords and their armies, but by that time all of the sword fighting students who were helping him are dead. He leaves the last evil swords master, Unseen, to be chopped into chutney by the vengeful freed masters and teachers of the schools, and goes back to his wife.

Cast

• Jimmy Wang as Fang Gang, the One-Armed Swordsman
• Lisa Chiao Chiao
  Lisa Chiao Chiao
  Chiao Li Na or Lisa Chiao Chiao, often credited Chiao Chiao, is a Taiwanese film actress best known for her work in Hong Kong cinema. She was employed by the Shaw Studios between 1966 and 1972, where she appeared in films such as A Cause to Kill in 1970.In 1972 she briefly returned to Taiwan,...
  
   as Xiao Man
• Lin Chia as Hua Niangzi (Thousand Hands King)
• Chung Wa as Lu Da
• Cheng Lui as Lu Tong
• Hoh Ban as Lu Long
• Tien Feng
  Tien Feng
  Tien Feng is a Hong Kong actor for 60 years. He left for Hong Kong from Taiwan and started his career...
  
   as Furtive King Ling Xu
• Ku Feng as Hercules King Jiao Feng
• Tung Li as Poisonous Dragon King Duan Shu
• Tong Gai as Spinning Wheels King Song Wen
• Lau Kar-wing as Hell's Buddha King Shi Fu
• Lau Kar-leung
  Lau Kar-leung
  Lau Kar-Leung is a famous Hong Kong martial arts filmmaker, choreographer, and actor.Lau Kar-Leung is best known for his movies which he made during the 1970s and 1980s for the Shaw Brothers Studio...
  
   as Ape's Arms King Yuan Qian
• Yuen Cheung-yan
  Yuen Cheung-Yan
  Yuen Cheung-Yan is an actor, director, stuntman, and fight choreographer who has worked for many years in the Hong Kong film industry. During the 1970s and early 1980s, he worked with Yuen Woo-Ping and other members of the Yuen family on several films, some of them bizarre kung fu comedies such as...
  
   as Flying Fighter King Deng Fei
• Ti Lung
  Ti Lung
  Tommy Tam Fu-Wing, also known as Ti Lung , or Dik Lung, is a Hong Kong actor.-Background:He studied Wing Chun under the martial arts master Chu Wan. In 1969, Ti was found by the Shaw Brothers and cast in Return of the One-Armed Swordsman opposite Jimmy Wang Yu, a role which would launch his career...
  
   as Lu Hong
• Wang Kuang-yu as Lu Chun
• Wu Ma
  Wu Ma
  Wu Ma is a Chinese actor, director, producer and writer. Wu Ma made his screen debut in 1963, and with over 180 appearances to his name , Wu Ma is one of the most familiar faces in the history of Hong Kong Cinema...
  
   as White Swordsman Guan Shun
• Fong Yau as Black Swordsman Guan Heng
• Cliff Lok
  Cliff Lok
  Cliff Lok, also Koo Lung, Ku Lung, Gam Tung, Chin Tong, Chin Tung, Lung Goon-Ting, Lung Kuan-Ting, Kan Tung, Kam Tung and Cliff Lok Kam Tung is a retired Chinese film actor and martial artist who worked in the Cinema of Hong Kong. He began his career at the Peking Opera...
  
   as Mu Jun
• Chan Sing as Shan Xiong
• Lee Ho as Xu Long
• Fong Yue as Ding Sheng
• Yau Ming as Lu Chong / Lei
• Lau Gong as Yan Yun
• Yau Lung as Mu Jun
• Lui Ban as Lu Yuan
• Nam Wai-lit as King's gate guard
• Tong Tin-hei as chief
• Chin Chun as chief killed by Furtive King
• Yee Kwan as chief
• Wong Ching-ho as Uncle Mu
• Hao Li-jen as village representative
• Luk Chuen as victim of poisonous dragon
• Cheung Hei as inn servant
• David Chiang
  David Chiang
  John Chiang is a Hong Kong actor. His Chinese name is Chiang Da-wei . He is sometimes credited as David Chiang.-Biography:...
  
   as Yin
• Tang Tak-cheung
• Wong Pau-gei
• Chan Chuen
• Yen Shi-kwan
• Wong Mei
• Yuen Woo-ping
  Yuen Woo-ping
  Yuen Woo-ping is a Chinese martial arts choreographer and film director, renowned as one of the most successful and influential figures in the world of Hong Kong action cinema. He is one of the inductees on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong...
  
  
• Lo Wai
  Lo Wai
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• Wong Chung
• Chui Chung-hok
• Tam Bo
• Ng Yuen-fan
• Ho Bo-sing
• Lee Siu-wa
• Yeung Jan-sing
• Fan Dan
• Fung Hap-so
• Chan Seng-tong
• Yuen Shing-chau
• Chan Keung
• Hsu Hsia