Plot
The eponymous character, played by Jimmy Wang, has hung up his signature broken sword and is living peacefully with his wife. Meanwhile, a band of tyrannical sword masters called the Eight Sword Kings are challenging the masters of all rival schools in an effort to take over the martial arts community. Any that refuse are murdered by the Eight Kings' twin enforcers, the Black and White Knights. After capturing all the rival masters, the Eight Kings deliver an ultimatum; all the rival schools' students must cut off their sword arms and surrender the severed limbs to the Eight Kings, or the students' beloved teachers will all die. The students turn to the legendary One-Armed Swordsman, who is at first reluctant, especially when one student kidnaps his wife to force him to help, but is convinced when a student actually does sacrificially chop his own arm off in despair. The One-Armed Swordsman joins with the students to defeat the Eight Kings and rescue their masters, contending with the unique styles and weapons of the Eight Kings:
- Winged Blade (or Flying Dragon in another translation dub) uses his speed and leaping prowess to attack from the air. One-Arm bests him and his students with a variety of ground-based traps.
- Hooking Blade wields a chained sickle. One-Arm defeats him by hanging him by his own weapon from a tree, allowing One-Arm to eviscerate him.
- Buried Blade hides in pits before leaping out to ambush his opponents. One-Arm bests him by chopping down bamboo to pin down his students and then standing atop the trunks, keeping him out of reach of Buried Blade's attacks to stab him with a bamboo spear.
- Whirling Blade wields a pair of bladed bucklers which can also be thrown as projectiles. One-Arm catches the blades on his sword and flings them back at their owner.
- Mighty Blade uses his immense strength and giant two handed sword to overpower his opponents. After luring him outside the Kings' fort, the students drop a net over him to restrain him as they mutilate him.
- Thunder Blade wields smoke bombs and a sword whose blade conceals a smoke sprayer and a shotgun. After using water to douse the smoke, One-Arm uses a cloth shield to block the pellets before cutting him down.
- Thousand Blade (or One Thousand Fingers), the only female King, uses her sexuality to lull her targets into lowering their guard before killing them with the many knives concealed in the sleeves of her robe. After failing to seduce One-Arm, she is fatally stabbed by one of the students she seduced and wounded.
- Unseen Blade (the Unseen), the leader of the Eight Kings, uses deception and distraction to confuse his opponents. He wields a sword that resembles One-Arm's broken sword, but is secretly a collapsible sword whose blade can extend during battle, and also has a hidden hook.
The One-Armed Swordsman and the students rescue their masters, though many students die in battle, and defeat all of the Eight Kings except for Unseen, whom they do not encounter at the Eight Kings' fort. They leave the fort and celebrate their victory over the Eight Kings, but Unseen and his men attack in the night after their revelry. All of the students die in the battle as Unseen duels the One-Armed Swordsman, who uses his skill in close range combat and left handed sword fighting to get inside Unseen's range and slice off his sword arm. He leaves Unseen to be killed by the vengeful masters as he and his wife return home.
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