The One-Armed Swordsman, the first important film by martial arts director Chang Cheh (aka Zhang Che), introduced realistic fight scenes in place of ones whose moves were drawn from Peking Opera.

Fans of the John Wick franchise need to check out The One-Armed Swordsman, a 57-year-old kung-fu movie that's still an amazing watch. Directed by Chang Cheh, The One-Armed Swordsman was the first ...

This month the Gene Siskel Film Center presents a retrospective tribute to Shaw Brothers Ltd., the studio that defined Hong Kong action cinema, and this gory 1971 epic, showing in ...

The film was the result of an argument between Shaw Brothers and Jimmy Wang Yu, who had become the studio's biggest male star after the megahit One-Armed Swordsman in 1967, and by 1970 wanted to ...

Born in Shanghai in 1943, Wang established his film career in Hong Kong, where he became a household name thanks to films including Chang Cheh’s 1967 classic “The One-Armed Swordsman,” which ...

One-Armed Swordsman is a 1967 Hong Kong wuxia film produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. Directed by Chang Cheh, it was the first of the new style of wuxia films emphasizing male anti-heroes ...

One-Armed Swordsman is a 1967 Hong Kong wuxia film produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. Directed by Chang Cheh, it was the first of the new style of wuxia films emphasizing male anti-heroes ...

Followed by many sequels — my favorite being the Japanese-Hong Kong co-production “Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman” — but the original still has the sharpest blade of all.

The film was the result of an argument between Shaw Brothers and Jimmy Wang Yu, who had become the studio’s biggest male star after the megahit One-Armed Swordsman in 1967, and by 1970 wanted to ...

Jimmy Wang Yu, best known for martial arts blockbusters One-Armed Swordsman and The Chinese Boxer, died on Tuesday at a Taipei hospital, Deadline reports. He was 79.