The New One-Armed Swordsman

1971 • 94 minutes

About this movie

Jimmy Wang Yu was One-Armed Swordsman. But he had moved on to become The Chinese Boxer. So Chang Cheh, the man who had helped make him a star, wasn’t kidding with the title of this fondly remembered epic (which deservedly won a prestigious Golden Horse Award for Editing). He took his charismatic new star, David Chiang, and made him an all-new-one-armed hero - a man who chops off his right arm rather than live with dishonor. But when the love of his life is kidnapped and his best friend is murdered at a gang’s stronghold on Tiger Mountain, its one-armed chopping time. The climatic battle on an amazingly engineered moat bridge is a particular favorite among true fans of martial art masterpieces.

Ratings and reviews

David Chiang and Ti Lung are so young here yet at the top of their game. this movie like all SB is legendary and at the top of my list.

One of the iconic movies from the Shaw Brothers studios. Good storyline and good action.

A classic martial art movie