Return of the One-Armed Swordsman is the sequel to the highly successful Shaw Brothers Chinese sword fighting action movie, The One-Armed Swordsman.
Plot
The eponymous character, still played by Jimmy Wang
Yu, has hung up his signature broken sword and is living peacefully with his
wife. However, a band of tyrannical sword masters take over the country, using
their own signature styles and unique weapons to conquer all the sword fighting
schools. They capture all the masters and teachers of the schools and deliver an
ultimatum: all the students must cut off their sword arms and surrender the
severed limbs to the evil warlords, or the students' beloved teachers will all
die. The students turn to the legendary One-Armed Swordsman, who is at first
reluctant but is convinced when a student actually does sacrificially chop his
own arm off when he refuses to help. The One-Armed Swordsman must contend with
the unique styles and weapons of the warlords, which is what makes the movie.
Winged Blade (or Flying Dragon in another translation dub) and his henchmen are
able to jump or glide, a power that One-Arm foils by scattering calthrops where
they land. Whirling Blade and his henchmen wield and throw two bladed bucklers,
which return to them like Captain America's shield. Thunder Blade's sword both
emits a smoke screen and is actually a shotgun. Thousand Blade (or One Thousand
Fingers) has long false fingernail blades that she can throw. And Unseen Blade
(the Unseen) first appears to have an invisible sword, then suddenly has a sword
that can unexpectedly grow longer. In the end the One-Armed Swordsman defeats
the warlords and their armies, but by that time all of the sword fighting
students who were helping him are dead. He leaves the last evil swords master,
Unseen, to be chopped into chutney by the vengeful freed masters and teachers of
the schools, and goes back to his wife.
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