Ling long yu shao jian ling long

I came across this movie on Youtube and thought I would do a quick review here, With a title like WITTY HAND, WITTY SWORD, one would think this is a Kung FU comedy. But, actually this Taiwan made production has a dead serious tone. WITTY SWORD stars Tien Peng and Pearl Cheong who must join forces to overcome the tyrannical regime that did their characters wrong. I wont go into the plot too much because it is similar plot you've seen before in action cinema. What really took me by surprise, was the big budget production with production values similar to a Shaw Brothers movie. Speaking of the Shaw studios, this movie also has a major role for Shaw Brothers superstar, the great David Chiang. In this movie, he portrays Tien Peng's brother and also gets to kick a lot of ass! The film is full of well done sword fights scenes, and visually speaking, WITTY SWORD is a masterpiece!

Many have received a secret invitation to master's house and one arrives mortally wounded. The master denies sending out the invitations. The son of the dead man demands an answer. A group of women arrive to deliver revenge and the master is killed just as his adopted son arrives. The women have come for the Witty Sword but the one they get is a fake. Flashbacks begin to answer questions about what is really going on here but the plot only thickens.

The movie starts intensely on all levels of plot, action, and characters. Plus the set seems worthy of Shaw Brothers studios. My copy is widescreen with Chinese and English subtitles typical of a laser disk converted to computer file. The resolution seems a bit short of laser disk quality though but I can't complain for a movie from 1978. The translation to English of the subtitles is minimally comprehensible.

I appreciate the other reviewer's effort but must make a correction as David Chiang is not in this movie. Overall I rate this above average and recommend it for all fans.