History Film / TheSwordStainedWithRoyalBlood

A post-modern adaptation is released in 1993, one which is mostly an InNameOnly adaptation with new characters, themes, and settings. It's not the first adaptation, but it is easily the most popularly remembered due to its over-the-top effects, extensive fight choreography, massive amounts of wire-fu, and featuring fan-favourite Creator/YuenBiao and Creator/DannyLee (Inspector Lee Ying of ''Film/TheKiller'' fame), the latter who plays a nigh-unstoppable killing machine and human thresher whose onscreen body-count totals up to at least a hundred.

* BladeOnAStick: Master Wen's preferred weapon is his trusty, massive, gold-bladed halberd.

* NiceHat:
** The Tibetan cultists all wears unique, Tibetan-style headgears.
** And also, Constable Yuen, who is never seen without his constable hat.

* BadassBeard: The Golden Snake Man, and he's not the only one. [[http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/images.mhtml?id=6211&display_set=eng Take your pick]].

** The WalkOnWater fight scene on the surface of the lake, pre-dating ''Film/{{Hero}}'' by 9 years.

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''The Sword Stained With Royal Blood'' is a 1993 {{Wuxia}} martial arts film, sharing a title with the ''Creator/JinYong'' novel of the same name, but is mostly an InNameOnly adaptation with new characters, themes, and settings. It's not the first adaptation of said novel (an earlier version was made by Shaw Brothers back in 1982) but it is easily the most popularly remembered due to its over-the-top effects, extensive fight choreography, massive amounts of wire-fu, and featuring fan-favourite Creator/YuenBiao and Creator/DannyLee (Inspector Lee Ying of ''Film/TheKiller'' fame), the latter who plays a nigh-unstoppable killing machine and human thresher whose onscreen body-count totals up to at least a hundred.

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''The Sword Stained With Royal Blood'' is a 1993 {{Wuxia}} martial arts film, sharing a title with the ''Creator/JinYong'' novel of the same name, but is mostly an InNameOnly adaptation with new characters, themes, and settings. It's not the first adaptation of said novel (an earlier version was made by Shaw Brothers back in 1982) but it is easily the most popularly remembered due to its over-the-top effects, extensive fight choreography, massive amounts of wire-fu, and featuring fan-favourite Creator/YuenBiao and Danny Lee (Inspector Lee Ying of ''Film/TheKiller'' fame), the latter who plays a nigh-unstoppable killing machine and human thresher whose onscreen body-count totals up to at least a hundred.

** The fight scene on the surface of the lake, pre-dating ''Film/{{Hero}}'' by 9 years.

** A meta ActorIllusion, an earlier Yuen Biao film, ''Film/EasternCondors'', also features Yuen killing a snake by biting.

** The ActionPrologue have Fifth Master Wan’s soldiers (all clad in red and InTheHood) assaulting Master Yuen’s hideout and battling Yuen’s guards (all in white uniforms), with plenty of casualties on both sides. Eventually Master Wan’s army emerged victorious, but suddenly Golden Snake arrives and wipes out the remaining forces, all 60-odd soldiers and Master Wan himself, in one fell swoop.

* EyeScream: In the opening action scene, after [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow witnessing first-hand the powers]] of the Golden Snake Sword and being the SoleSurvivor of Golden Snake’s rampage, Master Yuen immediately gouges out his own eyes while declaring he didn’t see a single thing, and have no clue about the Golden Sword’s true powers.

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''The Sword Stained With Royal Blood'' is a 1993 {{Wuxia}} martial arts film, sharing a title with the ''Creator/JinYong'' novel of the same name, but is mostly an InNameOnly adaptation with new characters, themes, and settings. It's not the first adaptation of said novel, an earlier version made by Shaw Brothers back in 1982, but is most popularly remembered due to its over-the-top effects, extensive fight choreography, massive amounts of wire-fu, and featuring fan-favourite Creator/YuenBiao and Danny Lee (Inspector Lee Ying of ''Film/TheKiller'' fame), the latter who plays a nigh-unstoppable killing machine and human thresher whose onscreen body-count totals up to at least a hundred.

Ming Dynasty police officer, Constable Yuen Ching Shi (Yuen Biao) stumbles across a conspiracy in the martial arts world during a seemingly-routine arrest and escort assignment of a young woman involved in a robbery, where a fateful encounter with the powerful swordsman and killing machine known as Ha Suet-Yee the Golden Snake (Danny Lee), responsible for a bloodbath days earlier where an entire clan of cultists ends up dead, had Yuen questioning the true powers of Golden Snake. After all, Golden Snake is reputed to be as elusive as he is deadly - nobody knows how he looks like, because whomever crosses path with Golden Snake will end up dying within seconds of facing him. After various run-ins and encounters between the two men, Golden Snake begins to recognize the sincerity of Constable Yuen to unveil the truth behind the true evils of the martial arts world, and both men are fated for the battle of their lives. And despite recognition of respect, Golden Snake remains a dangerous and powerful killing machine whose faith lies not in his friends, but his sword.