Golden Swallow

Original title: Jin yan zi

1968
R
1h 49m

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Hsin-Yen Chao, Pei-Pei Cheng, Lo Lieh, and Jimmy Wang Yu in Golden Swallow (1968)

Kung Fu Martial Arts Wuxia Action Adventure Romance

A master swordsman leaves behind a female colleague's signature, a Golden Swallow, when killing villains, in order to lure her to his side, as he's madly in love with her, but his ego won't ... Read allA master swordsman leaves behind a female colleague's signature, a Golden Swallow, when killing villains, in order to lure her to his side, as he's madly in love with her, but his ego won't allow him to express it properly.A master swordsman leaves behind a female colleague's signature, a Golden Swallow, when killing villains, in order to lure her to his side, as he's madly in love with her, but his ego won't allow him to express it properly.

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6.7/10

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Silver Roc Hsiao Peng: [Poem written on wall, read aloud] With a sword, I travel alone. / The roc soars high in the clouds. / The land is vast, but where is my home? / O swallow, where are you nesting?

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Featured in Chop Socky: Cinema Hong Kong (2003)

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9/10

Watch it take flight.

Kung-fu at its innovative best and one of the finest the genre has to offer. The Shaw Brothers produced "Golden Swallow" mixes a melancholy romance with violent martial arts caught by its handsomely earthy direction and inventively novel camera placement during the excitingly expansive set-pieces. The dazzling imagery in some sequences is marvellously projected, like the vigorous fighting craftsmanship in the woods and the vivid colour plateau accompanying it. The arresting sword fights are quick, ruthless and meticulous without a drop of sweat being spilt however blood is plentiful in its many awesome showdowns! The story's groundwork is quite simple, but well-told with its ominous edge and suitably paced even though I did find some of the editing in between sequences to be rather jumpy. The score is kinetic, but elegantly impulsive. There are illustratively able performances from the likes of Pei-pei Cheng (who provides one strong character), Yu Wang, Lieh Lo, Hsin Yen Chao and Chia-Liang Liu. Wang is quite memorable as the unstoppably cold-blooded warrior Silver Roc that really has a bone to pick, while in the quest to find his true love.