Shaw Brothers

Jimmy Wang Yu plays a young kid who heads off to Dragon Valley to meet the childhood friend who was promised as his bride. When he gets there, he finds that the family of the bride might not be an entirely honest bunch of people though. What is the story behind their feud with the monks at the Temple Of The Red Lotus, for a start?

Expect plenty of hard-edged action in The Twin Swords in which Jimmy Wang Yu and Chin Ping play a couple who stumbles on to a kidnapping plot at the Red Lotus Temple. Will they be able to foil the bad guys?

Bandits kidnap a governor's son and demand their imprisoned leader to be set free in exchange. The governor's daughter, a skilled martial artist, is sent to rescue him, but eventually finds herself overmatched and in need of assistance.

During the late Ming Dynasty a heroic swordsman named Lu Fang (Jimmy Wang Yu) returns from battle to discover that several poor farmers have kidnapped a ruthless local magistrate's only daughter. Lu Fang soon joins their cause after learning that this is simply an act of desperation to improve their horrifically low standards of living and extremely high taxation. The magistrate also holds an important petition from the townspeople. Becoming increasingly frustrated, the magistrate hires bandits, assassins, and another fighter named Huang Liang (Cheng Lui) to get his daughter back. Huang quickly recognizes Lu from past battles in the frontier and joins him in fighting the bandits and assassins. The standoff comes to an abrupt end when the magistrate threatens the life of one of the farmer's daughters. Lu convinces the magistrate to punish him in place of the farmers. Then Lu finds out that he has been lied to. The magistrate's daughter (Chin Ping) and a peerless fighter (Lo Lieh), along with Huang help Lu to escape and recover the petition. Finally, our heroes make sure that the petition will get to a higher-ranking official so that the town's suffering, starvation, and unfair taxation can end.

Tiger Boy, an itinerant young knight-errant bent on revenge for his father's death 15 years earlier rescues a young maiden after her brother is killed protecting her from the advances of a band of bandits. While the heroes escape the band's clutches and seek refuge in the forest, Tiger Boy discovers that her perpetrators are led by the son of his father's killer who also has a yen for the maiden. As fate would have it, she instead falls in love with our hero who pledges to return to her after vanquishing all his enemies. To accomplish this, he sets out to singlehandedly crash a large birthday party held in his father's killer's honor. Meanwhile, Tiger Boy's chivalric quest is complicated when the maiden also sets out after him straight into peril in the enemy's own stronghold.

A patriotic young master swordsman, who is betrayed by a jealous rival, flee with his mother and sister, and leads a simple life, until a chance encounter with another affluent patriot sets him back on the road to bloody, brutal vengeance.

A noble swordsman, whose arm had been chopped off, returns to his former teacher to defend him from a villainous gang of rival swordsmen.

The adventures of a young married sword fighting couple, Lianzhu and Gui Wu, and the sword fighting members of their different clans.

Two young swordsmen are sent by their peaceful clan to retrieve a powerful sword to prevent its misuse. Along the way, they separately meet a young, impetuous swordswoman from a rival clan, who poisons one and falls in love with the other.

A young aristocratic knight Li Yueh renounces his sword, identity and the woman he loves after going on the lam for assassinating a corrupt official responsible for his father's demise. While living incognito as a lowly stable-hand in a country tavern, Li's past catches up with him when he meets by chance Fang Chun Chao, a platonic benefactor of Li's betrothed whom he assists to reunite with Li. Meanwhile Fang himself is trailed by his own sworn enemies, the Tu clan of Flying Fish Island who would all converge to Li's sanctuary and is forced out from his undercover existence and back to the way of the blade.

Wei Fu is a seemingly unremarkable woodcutter but when his family is wiped out by psychotic marauders, Wei undertakes extensive martial arts training at the hands of an expert swordsman and sets out to exact revenge on the evildoers.

A master swordsman leaves behind a female colleague's signature, a Golden Swallow, when killing villains, in order to lure her to his side, as he's madly in love with her, but his ego won't allow him to express it properly.

A fearsome swordswoman known as The Jade Raksha begins mercilessly killing people who belong to the Yan clan as revenge for her family's killing. Matters get complicated when she meets a master swordsman who's on his own revenge journey.

A heroic sword master's disciple shows his true colors by killing the parents of a young girl then fleeing. His master takes their young daughter under his wing, along with another victim's young boy, and teaches them swordsmanship.

A young master swordsman is entrusted by his master with protecting a powerful sword from falling into the wrong hands, but his treacherous former colleague will stop at absolutely nothing to retrieve the sword for himself.

After stealing a powerful sword for her power-obsessed husband, a martial artist is banished to an infamous swamp. 20 years later, her daughter, who looks exactly like her, is searching for the same sword after it got stolen, again.

After killing his evil son, a martial arts clan incurs the wrath of a rival clan's chief, who's determined to exterminate all of them, but a vagabond, who's a knife throwing expert, intervenes.

One night, a clan patriarch takes his Golden Sword and disappears with two mysterious riders. 9 years later, his son meets a female martial artist, falls in love, and they get married. The next day, his father's sword suddenly shows up.

Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor, is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200,000 taels of silver to the capital each year. This year, however, he is afflicted with an infirmity that renders him unable to use his sword. Rather than give up this important commission and let the martial world know of his precarious health he means to entrust the consignment to two young knights in his manor, Hsiang Ting and Yun Piao-Piao. As it happens, these two are also betrothed; clearly they have their swordsmanship in common. At Peerless Manor, everyone is suspicious of malevolent strangers who may be sniffing around the silver transport. So when Le I appears astride a high-quality charger but otherwise clearly down on his luck, Hsiang Ting thinks Le I may be a spy for the bad guys in the Flying Tiger Manor. It doesn't help that Le I and Yun Piao-Piao hit it off right away. Even or especially when Le I saves Yun Piao-Piao from a Flying Tiger thug, Hsiang is not assuaged. Yun Piao-Piao is torn, though it seems that a certain sisterly compassion finally wins the day when she arranges to reunite Le I with his horse. It's a cute horse, and Le I seems rather attached ... When the silver convoy passes by a pagoda that happens to house the Flying Tiger gang, Chiao Hung, the Flying Tiger chief, tries to steal the shipment. To win the day, Hsiang and Le must fight together, despite their mutual disaffection.

A heroic bounty hunter, his partner and their men are desperately searching for a band of brutal robbers operating around the area, oblivious to the fact the gang is operating right under their noses.

The One-Armed Swordsman is forced out of retirement by a criminal organization consisting of eight swordsmen, who has forced every clan to send their best to compete against them for swordsman supremacy.

A young female sword master sets out to reunite five long missing brothers in order to destroy a fearsome martial arts master and his gang of killers who have murdered their father in the past.

The "iron triangle" of director Chang Cheh and protégés David Chiang and Ti Lung make The Heroic Ones a quintessential action epic, set during the waning years of the Tang Dynasty and centering on a royal family rife with intrigue.

China 1925, a man returns to track down a kill the men who murdered his brother.