Synopsis
The One-Armed Swordsman (1967) is a landmark Shaw Brothers martial-arts film you can watch online on iFILM. Fang Gang, the lowest-ranked student at the Golden Sword school, is treated as a nobody by his fellow disciples.
In a fit of jealous rage, his master's daughter slices off his right arm. A farm girl nurses him back from the brink, and from her late father's manual he slowly teaches himself to fight left-handed. He wants nothing more to do with the blade — until a masked killer sets out to wipe the school from the map, and his debt to his old teacher outweighs every grudge. Jimmy Wang Yu plays him quiet and grim, and that stillness cuts deeper than any shout.
Chang Cheh used this picture to forge a harder, more masculine style of wuxia, and it became the first Hong Kong production to take in over a million HK dollars. It's the cornerstone half of Asian action cinema is built on. Stream The One-Armed Swordsman online on iFILM.
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