Cathay Studios

A martial-arts student learns the iron fist and death grip techniques to avenge his teacher's death.

A Cathay Studio production

Jiang Lizhen's husband, Wang Gensheng, went to Nanyang to make a living. After ten years of separation, there was no news. Jane took her daughter to find her husband, but found out that she was born into a wealthy family.

The Northern and Southern Champion swordsmen discover the Tartars have murdered their families and the only thing on their minds is revenge.

Chor Yuen was Gu Long before he started filming Gu Long. The director's first wuxia film, made at Shaws' rival Cathay, finds him relishing in a mode of expression that would later become the signature style of the 'martial-arts suspense thriller' mini-genre. Chor grafts the quasi-psychological stylishness of his Cantonese melodrama onto this actioner, laying on thick the atmosphere by dialling up the fog machine and unleashing the colours from his camera's palette. He also stages his fights in modern dance-like choreography, with moves that are more graceful than ferocious and paused poses that are longer on expressive narcissism than continuity of action. Cold Blade is the quiet beginning of an aesthetic.

Mat lives on Ghost Island and is an amateur magician who always makes mistakes in all his performances. One day at sea, he meets a troupe led by a famous American magician, John Calvert, and invites them to perform at the birthday party for the King of Ghost Island.