VENGEANCE IS A GOLDEN BLADE is another fine Shaw Brothers adventure story from the studio's golden age of productions. This one teams up Chin Ping and Yueh Hua as the usual virtuous youths who find themselves drawn into a murky story involving family secrets and betrayal, a vicious clan of rapists and murderers, and a powerful blade against which all others are fated to fail. It's a typically action-packed story that mixes together intense and intriguing drama (and sometimes melodrama) with lavish spectacle, including a forest fire and plenty of one-versus-many fight scenes. The actors are perfectly chosen for their parts and there's plenty of plot to get your teeth into. What's not to love?
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