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* DavidVsGoliath: Invoked when the heroes takes on the hulking Mongolian giant brutes. It helps that formidable as they are, the brutes are DumbMuscle at worst.
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* BaldOfEvil: All four of the Mongol GIantMook PraetorianGuard warriors are bald, and the most dangerous among the mooks.
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* TheDividual: The Shi sisters are ''always'' together.
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''The Imperial Swordsman'' is a 1972 ''wuxia'' film produced by Creator/ShawBrothers, starring several lower-tier, mostly B-list members of the Shaw crew, including Shu Pei-pei (the discount Creator/ChengPeiPei, because the other more well-known Pei-pei is busy filming ''FIlm/TheLadyHermit''), Chuan Yuan (in a leading role affter playing third fiddle in the previous year's ''Film/DuelOfTheIronfist'') and Yue Wai (who only made a dozen movies during her time with Shaw Brothers).
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''The Imperial Swordsman'' is a 1972 ''wuxia'' film produced by Creator/ShawBrothers, starring several lower-tier, mostly B-list members of the Shaw crew, including Shu Pei-pei (the discount Creator/ChengPeiPei, because the other more well-known Pei-pei is busy filming ''FIlm/TheLadyHermit''), Chuan Yuan (in a leading role affter after playing third fiddle in the previous year's ''Film/DuelOfTheIronfist'') and Yue Wai (who only made a dozen movies during her time with Shaw Brothers).
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* ActionGIrl: The sisters Shi Xue-Lan and Shi Xue-Mei, who can take on loads and loads of enemies without a sweat. Especially the former.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Four Imperial Swords''men'' (and woman) crew.]]
''The Imperial Swordsman'' is a 1972 ''wuxia'' film produced by Creator/ShawBrothers, starring several lower-tier, mostly B-list members of the Shaw crew, including Shu Pei-pei (the discount Creator/ChengPeiPei, because the other more well-known Pei-pei is busy filming ''FIlm/TheLadyHermit''), Chuan Yuan (in a leading role affter playing third fiddle in the previous year's ''Film/DuelOfTheIronfist'') and Yue Wai (who only made a dozen movies during her time with Shaw Brothers).
A traitor in the Ming Palace had defected to support the incoming Mongol invaders, taking with him legions and legions of defectors. Now dominating a fort located on top of a cliff, the traitor - and his massive army of bandits and cutthroats - must be stopped. The Ming court responds by sending out their best warriors, the Shi sisters Shi Xue-Lan and Shi Xue-Mei, to organize a covert crew of warriors to infiltrate the fort. Along the way, the sisters attempts to recruit a local drunk and vagabond, Yin Shu-Tang of the beggar clan, who was once a hero and capable warrior, to join their battle for a noble cause.
And that's about it. One ('''of 83!!!''') of many films churned out by Shaw Brothers in 1972, ''The Imperial Swordsman'' is among their lower-grade efforts, with a script slapped together in weeks, featuring a bunch of the studios' lesser-known stars. But despite limitations, the movie is all sorts of entertaining, with an intensely long final battle lasting for maybe twenty minutes. Barely 90 minutes in length with a plot as thin as fine silk, and cramming action in probably every corner of it's runtime, it's everything a ''wuxia'' fan craving for action could ask for.
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!! ''The Imperial Swordsman'' contain examples of:
* ActionGIrl: The sisters Shi Xue-Lan and Shi Xue-Mei, who can take on loads and loads of enemies without a sweat. Especially the former.
* ArrowsOnFire: A flaming arrow shot into the sky from the parapets of the Mongol fort by Yin Shu-Tang is a signal for the gathered LaResistance nearby who opposes the Mongols that the coast is clear and they may launch their attack.
* BadassBookworm: Minister Fu Bing-Zhong, the main villain and Imperial traitor who defected to the invading Mongols, appears to be a simple magistrate and a non-combatant, but as Yin Shu-Tang and the Shi sisters confronts him in his quarters, Minister Fu grabs his sword, and surprisingly puts up one hell of a fight, giving the three heroes a difficult time.
* BadassCrew: The four Imperial Warriors easily defeats entire armies of bandits and enemy mercenaries with ease.
* BadassInDistress: Yin Shu-Tang gets captured by the Mongols and held in their cliffside fortress partway through the film, and the Shi sisters have to figure a way to bail him out before they can continue their mission.
* BaldOfEvil: All four of the Mongol GIantMook PraetorianGuard warriors are bald, and the most dangerous among the mooks.
* BigBadassBattleSequence: In the finale, the LaResistance - white-clad martial artists on the same side as the heroes - swarms through the secret entrance of the Mongol fort to back up the heroes, resulting in a massive battle sequence that takes up nearly the entirety of the third act, between loads and loads of extras everywhere in the fort.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: On Yin Shu-Tang and the Shi sisters during the final battle, after they've slain dozens and dozens of Mongol mooks. ''Each''. It's less noticeable on the sisters however, given their preference of red clothing in all their scenes.
* CarryABigStick: Zhi-yu, one challengers trying to confront the heroes, uses a mace with an iron ball on it's tip in an attempt to fight Yin Shu-Tang. He ends up having his weapon knocked out of his hands and quickly defeated. The Mongol GiantMook fighters use similar (but larger) maces as well.
* CaveBehindTheFalls: Part of the bandits' hideout is located behind a (relatively small) waterfall.
* ClimbingClimax: The Shi sisters need to climb up a cliff via rope when attempting to infiltrate the Mongol fortress.
* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: Shi Xue-Lan bit her sword between her teeth in the final battle while giving Yin Shu-Tang a boost into the air to perform an executing move.
* DestinationDefenestration: The tavern battle scene sees Yin Shu-Tang decking several mooks out of the tavern's windows. Said tavern is located facing a cliff, by the way.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Shi Xue-Mei doesn't survive the final battle, having been mortally injured, dying in Yin Shu-Tang's arms in her final scene]].
* EyeScream: The last of the Mongol GiantMook personal guards get his eyes slashed out by Shi Xue-Lan in the final battle, AFTER getting stabbed in the back. But as a testament to the brute's sheer strength, somehow that isn't enough to take him down.
* FurAndLoathing: The higher-ranked Mongol mooks, such as the GiantMook squadron, are all clad in heavy furs.
* GiantMook: The Mongol personal guards are a cadre of hulking, muscular, bald-headed thugs dressed in furs and uses massive hammers as weapons. They give the heroes a much harder time in the final battle compared to common mooks, being MadeOfIron and can take insane amounts of punishment.
* HighPressureBlood: All over the place.
* PaperMaster: Minister Fu can throw pages from books at his foes, which can slice through wood. Even the heroes are surprised at how dangerous the seemingly-harmless minister is.
* RedIsHeroic: The two Shi sisters are dressed in red in all their scenes.
* RedshirtArmy: Or ''white'' shirt army... the LaResistance defenders, on the same side as the Imperial crew, are all dressed in white, complete with white headbands. It helps the heroes (and the audience) tell them apart when battling hordes of Mongol mooks and bandits in the final battle sequence.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: During the inn ambush, an assassin disguised as a waiter tries attacking Yin Shu-Tang with darts from a distance. Yin however beats him by throwing a sword through his guts.
* TightropeWalking: After the battle on the cliffside tavern, the Imperial heroes have to escape enemy reinforcements by travessing a chasm, which they achieved by throwing a rope, latching it to a tree on the other side, and then walking across. It's easy for the Shi sisters given how nimble they are.
* MasterSwordsman: All four of the Imperial sword-fighters easily qualifies.
* NeverTrustATitle: The title might mislead audience into thinking that the film solely focuses on one character. In truth, the Imperial investigation crew consists of four members, all who receive equal amounts of screentime and development throughout the film.
* RasputinianDeath:
** The last GiantMook, who gets stabbed, slashed, have his eyes cut out, and somehow continues relentlessly trying to attack Shi Xue-Lan. She finally took him down by [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling him on a spike]].
** [[spoiler: Minister Fu Bing-Zhong, the main villain, dies from getting stabbed multiple times by Yin Shu-Tang, Shi Xue-Lan and Shi Xue-Mei, and somehow still remain standing until Yin delivers a CoupDeGrace in the form of a downward stab delivered from at least fifteen meters above]].
* SimpleStaff: In earlier scenes, Yin Shu-Tang is often seen carrying a bamboo pole - part of his BindleStick - around, using it as an impromptu weapon to fight bandits. He can impressively take names using it as well, despite his enemies using swords and him using a blunt stick.
* SwordCane: In the final battle, Yin switches his staff for a more practical sword sheathed in a cane instead.
* SwordFight: All over the place.
* WireFu: Yeah, it's that kind of movie.
* {{Wuxia}}
* YouAreAlreadyDead: Yin Shu-Tang's battle against half a dozen black-clad EliteMooks have him suddenly drawing his sword, making a bunch of flashy moves as his opponents charges forward, and all the moooks suddenly stop moving and remain standing. Yin sheathes his weapon, walks away and ten seconds later, every mook drop their weapons and collapses, dead.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Four Imperial Swords''men'' (and woman) crew.]]
''The Imperial Swordsman'' is a 1972 ''wuxia'' film produced by Creator/ShawBrothers, starring several lower-tier, mostly B-list members of the Shaw crew, including Shu Pei-pei (the discount Creator/ChengPeiPei, because the other more well-known Pei-pei is busy filming ''FIlm/TheLadyHermit''), Chuan Yuan (in a leading role affter playing third fiddle in the previous year's ''Film/DuelOfTheIronfist'') and Yue Wai (who only made a dozen movies during her time with Shaw Brothers).
A traitor in the Ming Palace had defected to support the incoming Mongol invaders, taking with him legions and legions of defectors. Now dominating a fort located on top of a cliff, the traitor - and his massive army of bandits and cutthroats - must be stopped. The Ming court responds by sending out their best warriors, the Shi sisters Shi Xue-Lan and Shi Xue-Mei, to organize a covert crew of warriors to infiltrate the fort. Along the way, the sisters attempts to recruit a local drunk and vagabond, Yin Shu-Tang of the beggar clan, who was once a hero and capable warrior, to join their battle for a noble cause.
And that's about it. One ('''of 83!!!''') of many films churned out by Shaw Brothers in 1972, ''The Imperial Swordsman'' is among their lower-grade efforts, with a script slapped together in weeks, featuring a bunch of the studios' lesser-known stars. But despite limitations, the movie is all sorts of entertaining, with an intensely long final battle lasting for maybe twenty minutes. Barely 90 minutes in length with a plot as thin as fine silk, and cramming action in probably every corner of it's runtime, it's everything a ''wuxia'' fan craving for action could ask for.
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!! ''The Imperial Swordsman'' contain examples of:
* ActionGIrl: The sisters Shi Xue-Lan and Shi Xue-Mei, who can take on loads and loads of enemies without a sweat. Especially the former.
* ArrowsOnFire: A flaming arrow shot into the sky from the parapets of the Mongol fort by Yin Shu-Tang is a signal for the gathered LaResistance nearby who opposes the Mongols that the coast is clear and they may launch their attack.
* BadassBookworm: Minister Fu Bing-Zhong, the main villain and Imperial traitor who defected to the invading Mongols, appears to be a simple magistrate and a non-combatant, but as Yin Shu-Tang and the Shi sisters confronts him in his quarters, Minister Fu grabs his sword, and surprisingly puts up one hell of a fight, giving the three heroes a difficult time.
* BadassCrew: The four Imperial Warriors easily defeats entire armies of bandits and enemy mercenaries with ease.
* BadassInDistress: Yin Shu-Tang gets captured by the Mongols and held in their cliffside fortress partway through the film, and the Shi sisters have to figure a way to bail him out before they can continue their mission.
* BaldOfEvil: All four of the Mongol GIantMook PraetorianGuard warriors are bald, and the most dangerous among the mooks.
* BigBadassBattleSequence: In the finale, the LaResistance - white-clad martial artists on the same side as the heroes - swarms through the secret entrance of the Mongol fort to back up the heroes, resulting in a massive battle sequence that takes up nearly the entirety of the third act, between loads and loads of extras everywhere in the fort.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: On Yin Shu-Tang and the Shi sisters during the final battle, after they've slain dozens and dozens of Mongol mooks. ''Each''. It's less noticeable on the sisters however, given their preference of red clothing in all their scenes.
* CarryABigStick: Zhi-yu, one challengers trying to confront the heroes, uses a mace with an iron ball on it's tip in an attempt to fight Yin Shu-Tang. He ends up having his weapon knocked out of his hands and quickly defeated. The Mongol GiantMook fighters use similar (but larger) maces as well.
* CaveBehindTheFalls: Part of the bandits' hideout is located behind a (relatively small) waterfall.
* ClimbingClimax: The Shi sisters need to climb up a cliff via rope when attempting to infiltrate the Mongol fortress.
* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: Shi Xue-Lan bit her sword between her teeth in the final battle while giving Yin Shu-Tang a boost into the air to perform an executing move.
* DestinationDefenestration: The tavern battle scene sees Yin Shu-Tang decking several mooks out of the tavern's windows. Said tavern is located facing a cliff, by the way.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Shi Xue-Mei doesn't survive the final battle, having been mortally injured, dying in Yin Shu-Tang's arms in her final scene]].
* EyeScream: The last of the Mongol GiantMook personal guards get his eyes slashed out by Shi Xue-Lan in the final battle, AFTER getting stabbed in the back. But as a testament to the brute's sheer strength, somehow that isn't enough to take him down.
* FurAndLoathing: The higher-ranked Mongol mooks, such as the GiantMook squadron, are all clad in heavy furs.
* GiantMook: The Mongol personal guards are a cadre of hulking, muscular, bald-headed thugs dressed in furs and uses massive hammers as weapons. They give the heroes a much harder time in the final battle compared to common mooks, being MadeOfIron and can take insane amounts of punishment.
* HighPressureBlood: All over the place.
* PaperMaster: Minister Fu can throw pages from books at his foes, which can slice through wood. Even the heroes are surprised at how dangerous the seemingly-harmless minister is.
* RedIsHeroic: The two Shi sisters are dressed in red in all their scenes.
* RedshirtArmy: Or ''white'' shirt army... the LaResistance defenders, on the same side as the Imperial crew, are all dressed in white, complete with white headbands. It helps the heroes (and the audience) tell them apart when battling hordes of Mongol mooks and bandits in the final battle sequence.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: During the inn ambush, an assassin disguised as a waiter tries attacking Yin Shu-Tang with darts from a distance. Yin however beats him by throwing a sword through his guts.
* TightropeWalking: After the battle on the cliffside tavern, the Imperial heroes have to escape enemy reinforcements by travessing a chasm, which they achieved by throwing a rope, latching it to a tree on the other side, and then walking across. It's easy for the Shi sisters given how nimble they are.
* MasterSwordsman: All four of the Imperial sword-fighters easily qualifies.
* NeverTrustATitle: The title might mislead audience into thinking that the film solely focuses on one character. In truth, the Imperial investigation crew consists of four members, all who receive equal amounts of screentime and development throughout the film.
* RasputinianDeath:
** The last GiantMook, who gets stabbed, slashed, have his eyes cut out, and somehow continues relentlessly trying to attack Shi Xue-Lan. She finally took him down by [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling him on a spike]].
** [[spoiler: Minister Fu Bing-Zhong, the main villain, dies from getting stabbed multiple times by Yin Shu-Tang, Shi Xue-Lan and Shi Xue-Mei, and somehow still remain standing until Yin delivers a CoupDeGrace in the form of a downward stab delivered from at least fifteen meters above]].
* SimpleStaff: In earlier scenes, Yin Shu-Tang is often seen carrying a bamboo pole - part of his BindleStick - around, using it as an impromptu weapon to fight bandits. He can impressively take names using it as well, despite his enemies using swords and him using a blunt stick.
* SwordCane: In the final battle, Yin switches his staff for a more practical sword sheathed in a cane instead.
* SwordFight: All over the place.
* WireFu: Yeah, it's that kind of movie.
* {{Wuxia}}
* YouAreAlreadyDead: Yin Shu-Tang's battle against half a dozen black-clad EliteMooks have him suddenly drawing his sword, making a bunch of flashy moves as his opponents charges forward, and all the moooks suddenly stop moving and remain standing. Yin sheathes his weapon, walks away and ten seconds later, every mook drop their weapons and collapses, dead.
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