Return of the Sentimental Swordsman


Return of the Sentimental Swordsman, also known as The Flying Blade, is a 1981 Hong Kong wuxia film written and directed by Chor Yuen and produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. Adapted from the second half of the novel Duoqing Jianke Wuqing Jian by Gu Long, it starred Ti Lung, Alexander Fu, and Derek Yee.
It is a sequel to The Sentimental Swordsman and one of the Shaw Brothers Studio's highest-grossing films, surpassing the first film at the box office. An in-name-only "sequel", Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman, was released in 1982, with no relation to the Xiaoli Feidao Series. Instead, it is adapted from the Lu Xiaofeng Series which is also by Gu Long.

Synopsis

Li Xunhuan comes back to his home after three years of wandering. He has decided to have a normal life, but a group of skilled fighters and leaders are bent on killing him, so they can be ranked in the list of best fighters in the jianghu. Li battles them as he searches for his estranged friend Ah-fei, who is now married and living in seclusion. Li asks Ah-fei to join him in countering the Money Clan, which has emerged as a new threat to the jianghu.

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