The Sword of Many Loves

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The Sword of Many Loves
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Traditional Chinese 飛狐外傳
Simplified Chinese 飞狐外传
Hanyu Pinyin Fēi Hú Wài Zhuàn
Directed byPoon Man-kit
Screenplay byLee Ying-kit
Johnny Mak
Stephen Shiu
Based on The Young Flying Fox
by Jin Yong (credited as Louis Cha)
Produced byJohnny Mak
Stephen Shiu
Starring Leon Lai
Michelle Reis
Sharla Cheung
Elvis Tsui
CinematographyChiu Foo-keung
Wong Bo-man
Edited byFan Kung-ming
Music byWilliam Hu
Production
company
Distributed byGala Film Distribution Limited
Release date
  • 20 August 1993 (1993-08-20)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguagesCantonese
Mandarin
Box officeHK$6,859,835.00

The Sword of Many Loves, also known as The Sword of Many Lovers, is a 1993 Hong Kong film based on Jin Yong's novel The Young Flying Fox . The film was produced by Golden Harvest and directed by Poon Man-kit.

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Plot

Wu Fei (Leon Lai) and his uncle Ping travel together as brick salesmen. They find themselves traveling to the home of Ling (Michelle Reis) to deliver bricks for the grave of Ling's recently deceased master, who himself was the mastermind behind a sect of poisoner's and as such was in possession of a medical manual.

Other members of his poisoner's sect now want the medical manual for themselves, this results in an absurd assassination attempt on Ling, featuring a lot of slapstick comedy.

After witnessing this trouble, Fei and Ping run away and end up in Nanking, it is here that they learn their friend Chung has been framed by Young Fung, son of the local crime boss Master Fung. Fei and Ping intervene against the crime boss which leads to the death of Ping. Fei retreats from the scene but vows revenge for the murder of his uncle, after this Fei meets Purple Yuen who aims to stop the martial arts leaders from being distracted and return them back to their task of restoring the Ming Dynasty through a government-backed martial arts contest. Yuen wishes to beat all the leaders and claim the title for herself.

Fei and Yuen then travel together, developing a romantic relationship with several elements of comedy. Fei then confronts Master Fung, Fei almost kills Master Fung but is stopped by Yuen, who is Master Fung's daughter. It is revealed that Fung killed Yuen's mother's family which caused her mother to commit suicide. Yuen only stops Fei from killing Fung so that she may kill Fung herself as revenge. However Yuen is poisoned by Fung (causing her bottom to inflate), Fei then takes her to Ling to be cured.

Ling has now fallen in love with Fei and will only cure Yuen if Fei breaks off his romantic relationship with Yuen. This leads to several comedic scenes and catfights until Yuen is finally cured. All three then attend the martial arts contest together with the aim of killing all the martial arts sects, culminating in a final showdown between Master Fung and Fei.

Cast

Note: The characters' names are in Cantonese romanisation.

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