Teng Wei-Hao

The titanic team of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung wisely chose to give their hero a whole new, non-stop, cliffhanger-fraught adventure featuring a mystery swordsman, a sensual swordswoman, an imperial assassin, a Ghost Mansion, the Bat Island, a booby-trapped tunnel, double crosses, and secret missions.

The master of the modern day crime thriller lends his directing skills to this amazing kung-fu crime fantasy. Hua Shan impressed audiences with such films as The Criminals trilogy, then dazzled them in an entirely different way by helming the superheroic Super Inframan and Flying Guillotine 2.

A cotton dealer's brash son makes the decision to learn kung fu rather than follow in his father's trade.

In order to restore order to China, who has been under the rule of the tyrannical Emperor Ching for 50 years, a rebellious brotherhood makes it their mission to disturb the throne.