A princess wants a sword, a family dies, and a fisherman won't stop fishing. Classic wuxia chaos.
A well-known family is wiped out when a princess is on the hunt for a special sword called "Witty Sword". The daughter in the family sent in the attack. But the princess's minions are soon her on the tracks. Amidst all the ports obliterated family adopted son and sword fighters on both sides. Also a mysterious fisherman settles in.
Stunts
Pao Hsueh-Li's Shaw Brothers-trained fight choreography
Costume
Princess's hunting ensemble screams power and petty
Direction
Family massacre staged with brutal Shaw Brothers efficiency
Director
Pao Hsueh-Li
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pao Hsueh-Li was a prolific Shaw Brothers director who specialized in female-led martial arts films, making the princess antagonist here a deliberate subversion of his usual heroines.
The 'orphed family adopted son' trope reflects Confucian tensions between filial piety (birth family) and gratitude (adoptive family), a common wuxia dilemma that 1970s Hong Kong cinema explored repeatedly.
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