Swordsman 2 Archives

While we in the West are waiting for Tsui Hark's blockbuster adaptation of Jin Yong's wuxia classic Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants, another adaptation was released in China and Hong Kong days before the big event opened, namely Invincible Swordsman; it is, unfortunately, an utterly pointless and toothless remake of Swordsman 2, a hit[...]

He also transformed Brigitte Lin into a star when he cast her as the trans-martial artist Asia the Invincible in Swordsman 2 He helped launch the international career of John Woo when he produced the latter's A Better Tomorrow and The Killer He produced and directed the subversive Chinese military hit The Taking of Tiger[...]