Blind girl, dead family, one sword. Classic Shaw energy, zero mercy.
Cheung Ching Ching is superb, as usual, playing a blind girl who learns martial arts from an old master and who takes revenge on the Red Devil who murdered her entire family. Brilliant sword film as you'd expect from master auteur Joseph Kuo. —Wu Tang Collection
Acting
Cheung Ching-Ching sells blindness like she invented it.
Direction
Joseph Kuo: 90 minutes, zero fat, maximum sword trauma.
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI sword fights hit different when someone's actually bleeding.
Director
Joseph Kuo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Joseph Kuo directed over 70 films in 15 years, basically inventing the 'blind fighter' subgenre that influenced everything from Zatoichi to Daredevil.
Cheung Ching-Ching was 16 during filming and performed most stunts herself because insurance didn't exist in 1970 Shaw Brothers productions.
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