He's Back!
After defeating The Long-Armed Devil and his armies, our nubbed hero has been living in retirement as a farmer, but circumstances causes him to come out of retirement and take on The Eight Kings, each warrior with their own unique fighting style. The time has come for the one armed swordsman to return.
Before Chang Cheh was making his "Five Deadly Venoms" films, he was perfecting the wuxia with the One-Armed Swordsman series. Is part two better than the first? Maybe, maybe not. But it is at least as good, with some more solid villains -- including a woman with a thousand blades! The martial arts genre, at least under the direction of Chang Cheh, is interesting in how steady and consistent it remained -- even up through the 1980s, the use of scenery, camera tricks and more remained largely unchanged. But, as they say, if it ain't broke, why fix it?
Before Chang Cheh was making his "Five Deadly Venoms" films, he was perfecting the wuxia with the One-Armed Swordsman series. Is part two better than the first? Maybe, maybe not. But it is at least as good, with some more solid villains -- including a woman with a thousand blades! The martial arts genre, at least under the direction of Chang Cheh, is interesting in how steady and consistent it remained -- even up through the 1980s, the use of scenery, camera tricks and more remained largely unchanged. But, as they say, if it ain't broke, why fix it?
- gavin6942
- 10 jul 2016