Your wedding day: ruined by evil needles and a ghost mom. Classic 1964.
Yiu But-fan marries on the day his father Yan-kit retires as a distinguished swordsman when Yan-kit's nemesis 'Ghostly Mother Blue Flower' Chiu Choi-wan and her foster son Lai Chun-wah gatecrash the party, striking dead the elder and But-fan's wife with the White-bone Soul-thrashing needles. Having pledged his alliance to the anguished son, Taoist Tranquil of Emei vows to eradicate the menace at Mid-Autumn Festival when his junior disciple Kau Suet-mui is challenged to a duel with Chiu. Kau's fellow disciples Hung Tin-bo and Chuk Yuk-heung follow the orders of their master to roam the martial world and tumble into a bandit lair. Extricated from danger by the Taoist, the duo join hands with the passer-by Yiu to thwart Lai's assault on Kau by sorcery, again aided by the Taoist. Yiu, Kau and her peers head back to the Kau Fortress where a martial contest is being held to select a prospective groom for the daughter. Kau overwhelms Lai in the ring but concedes defeat to Chiu.
Practical Effects
White-bone Soul-thrashing needles: practical effects at their campiest.
Stunts
Mid-Autumn Festival duel choreography before wires went digital.
Costume
Ghostly Mother's blue flower aesthetic: villainy as brand identity.
Director
Yeung Kung-Leung
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part One of a two-part adaptation of a wuxia novel—Hong Kong studios loved serialized storytelling to maximize ticket returns.
Sek Kin, who plays villain Lai, later became iconic as the ultimate antagonist in 1970s Bruce Lee films—this is him sharpening that persona.
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