When Nameless (Ti Lung) witnesses the death of a swordsman at the hands of the mysterious Lu Tien Kang (who keeps his face covered so no one will know who he is; a great way to avoid answering for whatever problems you might cause others), he is shocked to see the swordsman's wife commit suicide to be with her dead spouse. Being a kid, this leaves quite an impression on him (he is haunted by visions of the dead woman) and he grows to manhood driven to meet and one day kill the mysterious Lu. He kills anyone who gets in his way (or who stumbles across his path). "My worth is my sword," he proudly proclaims at one point. "There are three kinds of people," he learns: "Men, women, and the dead." When he encounters an elderly priest, whose flexible sword "is long but flaccid," he leaves the man pinned upside down to a temple gate. "Leaves when dead will fall..." Because he is attacked while in a bath, he thereafter refuses to take a bath "without holding my sword." (...) He meets and falls for Miss Ho- but can a man driven to be the best swordsman in the Martial Arts World measure up...?
Review of Soul of the Sword
