The Blood Sword

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Traditional Chinese 中華英雄
Simplified Chinese 中华英雄
Literal meaningChinese Hero
Hanyu Pinyin Zhōnghuá Yīngxíong
Jyutping Zung1 Waa4 Jing1 Hung4
Genre Wuxia
Based on Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blood Sword
by Ma Wing-shing
Screenplay byLo Wing-kwong
Directed byYuen Yan-hong
Wong Wai-yan
Wong Kum-tin
Starring Kenny Ho
Veronica Yip
Yeung Chak-lam
Esther Kwan
Lau Wun-fung
Kwan Chan-nei
Eric Wan
Chan Tung-mui
Law Chung-wah
Theme music composerTam Tong-lei
Opening themeChung-wah Ying-hung (中華英雄) performed by Kenny Ho
Ending themeChung-wah Ying-hung (中華英雄) performed by Kenny Ho
ComposerWong Bong-yin
Country of originHong Kong
Original languageCantonese
No. of episodes25
Production
ProducerChiu Chun-keung
Production locationHong Kong
CinematographyWong Ka-kuen
Lok Cheung-mun
Tai Kwok-chai
EditorTam Kit-leung
Running time20 minutes per episode
Production company ATV
Release
Original networkATV
Original release11 June 1990 (1990-06-11)
Related
The Blood Sword 2 (1991)

The Blood Sword is a Hong Kong television series adapted from the wuxia manhua series Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blood Sword by Ma Wing-shing. The series was produced by ATV and first aired in June 1990. It was followed by a 1991 prequel, The Blood Sword 2 .

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Plot

The series is set in the jianghu (martial artists' community) of early 20th-century China. A grey-haired Wah Ying Hung (Hua Yingxiong) travels alone to an island to settle an old feud between the Wah and Chi families. He has been separated from his family for over 20 years after they were ambushed by enemies while sailing back to China from America. Ying Hung's wife, Kit Yue (Jieyu), was killed by the attackers; their daughter, Hua Wenying, was thrown overboard and presumed dead; their son, Wah Kim Hung (Hua Jianxiong), was raised by their servant Shengnu.

Wah Kim Hung becomes bitter enemies with Situ Mowen after the latter killed Shengnu. He also encounters Taxue by chance, falls in love with her, and marries her. However, they incur the jealousy of Si-ao, the daughter of the Hua family's servant Guipu, because she has a crush on Wah Kim Hung. In the meantime, Wah Ying Hung resolves the feud and becomes an ally of Chi Lianyingwang, the Chi family patriarch. He also accepts Chi's son, Chi Yan, as his apprentice. He also develops a crush on Ziyi, one of the Chi family's mercenaries, because she resembles Kit Yue in appearance.

Hua Wenying had actually survived and was renamed Qiongtian. She was raised by Yuanlaowang of the Hell School and groomed to become the school's leader. She developed a cruel and treacherous personality under Yuanlaowang's influence and eventually murdered her foster father to secure her position in the Hell School. She pretends to love Situ Mowen and manipulates him to help her. With support from Situ Mowen and the Japanese Iga School's ninjas, Qiongtian leads the Hell School to attack other martial arts schools in her ambition to dominate the jianghu. She also incites conflict between Situ Wuliang (Situ Mowen's "father") and the Iga School, after discovering that Situ Mowen is actually the biological son of the Iga School's leader.

The Huas combine forces with the Chi family and other schools to resist the Hell School and its allies. Wah Ying Hung restores peace in the jianghu after defeating and reluctantly killing his evil daughter.

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