Synopsis

Master of the "swordplay thriller" genre, this film featured mystery melodrama amid amazing atmospheric sets and exceptional characterizations. Renowned kung-fu choreographer Tang Chia teams with Huang Pei-chi to lead an all-star cast of more than a dozen martial artists in a fabulous tale of the "Fastest Swordsman in the World" facing the "1000 Face Devil" and no less than seven murderers. In tone, ambition, plot, and title, this may be the ultimate example of an entire genre -- which was, for years, labeled the "Cinema of Vengeance."