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''The Sentimental Swordsman'' is a 1977 ''wuxia'' film written and directed by Chor Yuen and produced by Creator/ShawBrothers. Based on the ''Xiaoli Fei-dao'' (小李飛刀 "Li, the Little Flying Dagger") Taiwanese bestselling series of novels by the writer Gu Long, the movie chronicles the adventures of the eponymous martial artist and swordsman, Li Hsun-huan, known as "Li the Little Flying Dagger". Boasting a massive cast from Shaw Brothers' stable of actors, including Creator/TiLung, Creator/DerekYee, Creator/YuehHua, Creator/KaraWai, Li Ching, Fan Mei-sheng, Anthony Liu and several more, the movie is a box office success, known for being the highest-grossing Shaw Brothers film in the studio's history, spawning a sequel and an InNameOnly follow-up.
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''The Sentimental Swordsman'' is a 1977 ''wuxia'' film written and directed by Chor Yuen and produced by Creator/ShawBrothers. Based on the ''Xiaoli Fei-dao'' (小李飛刀 "Li, the Little Flying Dagger") Taiwanese bestselling series of novels by the writer Gu Long, the movie chronicles the adventures of the eponymous martial artist and swordsman, Li Hsun-huan, known as "Li the Little Flying Dagger". Boasting a massive cast from Shaw Brothers' stable of actors, including Creator/TiLung, Creator/DerekYee, Creator/YuehHua, Creator/AlexanderFuSheng, Creator/KaraWai, Li Ching, Fan Mei-sheng, Anthony Liu and several more, the movie is a box office success, known for being the highest-grossing Shaw Brothers film in the studio's history, spawning a sequel and an InNameOnly follow-up.
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* BadassCape: Li Hsun-huan dons a magnificient black cape that matches his clothing. Most of his opponents have similar capes as well, which is pretty much a given for ''wuxia''.
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* BadassCape: Li Hsun-huan dons a magnificient magnificent black cape that matches his clothing. Most of his opponents have similar capes as well, which is pretty much a given for ''wuxia''.
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* OfCorpseHesAlive: The first movie has a scene where Li Hsun-huan and his travelling companions enters a tavern full of people, but for some reason is entirely quiet, with the occuppants merely sitting in circles, nobody touching their foods. Then Li notes that everybody's dead - they're merely propped in their seats to look like they're alive, because it's a trap.
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* OfCorpseHesAlive: The first movie has a scene where Li Hsun-huan and his travelling companions enters a tavern full of people, but for some reason is entirely quiet, with the occuppants occupants merely sitting in circles, nobody touching their foods. Then Li notes that everybody's dead - they're merely propped in their seats to look like they're alive, because it's a trap.
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* SnakesAreSinister: The first movie features the villanious Black Snake Sect, whose motif are based on snakes, and frequently use snake venoms in their weapons to poison their enemies.
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* SnakesAreSinister: The first movie features the villanious villainous Black Snake Sect, whose motif are based on snakes, and frequently use snake venoms in their weapons to poison their enemies.
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The third and last movie, ''Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman'', released a year later in 1982, somehow doesn't have Ti Lung's character, Li Hsun-huan, from the first tow movies. Instead, Ti Lung plays Chu Liu-xiang, a character from ''Film/ClansOfIntrigue'', which was somehow (for reasons unknown for over four decades) transplanted into ''The Sentimental Swordsman'' installment of films. If one were to consider the films to be in the same universe, then this could be Shaw Brothers' attempts at CanonWelding between two otherwise unrelated roles from one of their leading men, Ti Lung, from two originally unrelated franchises.
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The third and last movie, ''Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman'', released a year later in 1982, somehow doesn't have Ti Lung's character, Li Hsun-huan, from the first tow two movies. Instead, Ti Lung plays Chu Liu-xiang, a character he portrayed earlier from ''Film/ClansOfIntrigue'', which was somehow (for reasons unknown for over four decades) transplanted into ''The Sentimental Swordsman'' installment of films. If one were to consider the films to be in the same universe, then this could be Shaw Brothers' attempts at CanonWelding between two otherwise unrelated roles from one of their leading men, Ti Lung, from two originally unrelated franchises.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Ti Lung as Li Hsun-huan]]
''The Sentimental Swordsman'' is a 1977 ''wuxia'' film written and directed by Chor Yuen and produced by Creator/ShawBrothers. Based on the ''Xiaoli Fei-dao'' (小李飛刀 "Li, the Little Flying Dagger") Taiwanese bestselling series of novels by the writer Gu Long, the movie chronicles the adventures of the eponymous martial artist and swordsman, Li Hsun-huan, known as "Li the Little Flying Dagger". Boasting a massive cast from Shaw Brothers' stable of actors, including Creator/TiLung, Creator/DerekYee, Creator/YuehHua, Creator/KaraWai, Li Ching, Fan Mei-sheng, Anthony Liu and several more, the movie is a box office success, known for being the highest-grossing Shaw Brothers film in the studio's history, spawning a sequel and an InNameOnly follow-up.
The legendary warrior, Li Hsun-huan (Ti Lung), known from his moniker "Flying Dagger Li", was once a famed martial artist and warrior of the ''jiang hu'', but after losing the woman he loves because of his pride, he have since given up his dreams and plans for becoming the top of all martial artists. Roaming the lands with his protégé, Ah Fei (Derek Yee), Li have to contend with the old rivals of his past while being reluctantly dragged into a martial arts conspiracy, namely one revolving around the ownership of an indestructible, all-powerful, yet weightless armoured shirt. And on top of the list of martial arts rivals after him, is the dreaded Master Long Xiao Yun (Yueh Hua).
Unusually for Shaw Brothers, despite the film's success, a sequel was released four years later in 1981 (a somewhat long gap, considering they tend to release follow-up movies between 6 months and 2 years apart), creatively titled ''Return of the Sentimental Swordsman''. This time, Li Hsun-huan and Ah Fei are challenged by another elite assassin, Jing Wuming (Fu Sheng), who originally wants Li dead, but soon they're forced to put their differences aside to battle the powerful Money Clan.
The third and last movie, ''Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman'', released a year later in 1982, somehow doesn't have Ti Lung's character, Li Hsun-huan, from the first tow movies. Instead, Ti Lung plays Chu Liu-xiang, a character from ''Film/ClansOfIntrigue'', which was somehow (for reasons unknown for over four decades) transplanted into ''The Sentimental Swordsman'' installment of films. If one were to consider the films to be in the same universe, then this could be Shaw Brothers' attempts at CanonWelding between two otherwise unrelated roles from one of their leading men, Ti Lung, from two originally unrelated franchises.
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!! ''The Sentimental Swordsman'' movies contains examples of:
* AddledAddict: Part of Li Hsun-huan's backstory; after forsaking the woman he loves because of his pride, Li can only find comfort in alcohol. See one line below.
* TheAlcoholic: Li Hsu-huan tends to spend most of his time ''not'' kicking ass drinking himself under the table in taverns. Unfortunately, most of his challengers tends to find and confront him while he's deep in booze.
* BadassCape: Li Hsun-huan dons a magnificient black cape that matches his clothing. Most of his opponents have similar capes as well, which is pretty much a given for ''wuxia''.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Most named characters wears ornate, coloured robes for ease of differentiation, but the ''Return of the Sentimental Swordsman'' have a rather blatant moment where the black-clad Li Hsun-huan fights Lu Fengxian the White Gown in a snowy arena. The black and white juxtaposition really sticks out.
* CombatHandFan: Li Hsun-huan's preferred weapon when he's not using throwing knives.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Played straight with Li Hsun-huan's preference of dark robes and capes.
* EnemyMine: In two movies, Li Hsun-huan have to ally himself with assassins otherwise sent to kill him - Long Xiao-yun in ''The Sentimental Swordsman'', Jing Wuming in ''Return of the Sentimental Swordsman'' - because they're facing the same enemy.
* EnsembleCast: Ti Lung, Derek Yee, Yueh Hua, Alexander Fu Sheng, and practically every major name in Shaw Brothers plays a major role in these movies.
* GratuitousNinja: Numerous mooks in the first movie are dressed up as ninjas, usually in night ambush scenes.
* GrimUpNorth: Much of both movies is set in the Chinese-Mongolian border, where it's constantly in the winter.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Li Hsun-huan is a devil with throwing knives, ''never'' missing a single shot. He's even good with knife-shaped objects, like [[spoiler: an icicle]].
* ImprovisedWeapon: In the first movie, villain Long Xiao-yun managed to counter Li Hsun-huan's throwing knife attacks with a magnetic shield. But Li managed to get around it by [[spoiler: throwing an icicle together with his last knife, killing his opponent via ice in the throat]].
* InASingleBound: Li Hsun-huan, and basically every named martial artist character, can traverse long distances with a single leap.
* InNameOnly: ''Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman'', despite the title and having Ti Lung in the titular role, does not feature Li Hsun-huan at all; instead the movie features Chu Liu-xiang, another swordsman character portrayed by Lung. Presumably there is a confusion among Shaw Brothers' higher-ups regarding the character and roles, resulting in another Ti Lung character from a different franchise getting transplanted into the otherwise unrelated ''Sentimental Swordsman'' series.
* KickTheDog: A rather literal example in ''Return of the Sentimental Swordsman''; Li Hsun-huan tries convincing several of his companions that they've been set up in a tavern, and the meat buns they're being served are actually poisoned, by throwing one of those to a random passing dog. Sure enough, the dog gets poisoned and killed on the spot.
* KnifeNut: They didn't call the protagonist "Flying Dagger Li" for nothing.
* TheLancer: Ah Fei, the plucky TagAlongKid sidekick character from the first two films, a young martial artist who follows Li Hsun-huan for his own reasons. He can hold his own exceptionally well even in big fight scenes and has the second most amount of character development after Li Hsun-huan.
* LogicalWeakness: Played with in the climatic duel of ''The Sentimental Swordsman''; [[spoiler: in the final battle, Long Xiao Yun managed to counter Li Hsun-huan's throwing knives with a magnetic shield, which absorbs every knife Li had flung towards his direction. So when the fight inevitably leads outside, Li throws his last knife - together with an icicle - at Long Xiao Yun. The magnetic shield catches the knife, but the icicle goes into Long's throat]].
* OfCorpseHesAlive: The first movie has a scene where Li Hsun-huan and his travelling companions enters a tavern full of people, but for some reason is entirely quiet, with the occuppants merely sitting in circles, nobody touching their foods. Then Li notes that everybody's dead - they're merely propped in their seats to look like they're alive, because it's a trap.
* PoisonedWeapons: The swords and daggers of the Black Snake cult members are tainted by snake venom.
* ProtagonistTitle: ''The Sentimental Swordsman'' refers to Li Hsun-huan.
* RealMenWearPink: Long Xiao-Yun, the main villain and Li's final opponent of the first movie, wears pink.
* RedBaron: The hero's name is Li Hsun-huan, but everyone who knew him, allies and enemies alike, all calls him "Flying Dagger Li".
* RevengeOfTheSequel: Close enough, with ''Return of the Sentimental Swordsman''.
* SnakesAreSinister: The first movie features the villanious Black Snake Sect, whose motif are based on snakes, and frequently use snake venoms in their weapons to poison their enemies.
* SwordFight: No ''wuxia'' is complete without at least a dozen of these.
* WalkingTheEarth: Most of Li Hsun-huan's life consists of him roaming the ''jiang hu'' seeking challenges to pass his time.
* {{Wuxia}}
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[[caption-width-right:350:Ti Lung as Li Hsun-huan]]
''The Sentimental Swordsman'' is a 1977 ''wuxia'' film written and directed by Chor Yuen and produced by Creator/ShawBrothers. Based on the ''Xiaoli Fei-dao'' (小李飛刀 "Li, the Little Flying Dagger") Taiwanese bestselling series of novels by the writer Gu Long, the movie chronicles the adventures of the eponymous martial artist and swordsman, Li Hsun-huan, known as "Li the Little Flying Dagger". Boasting a massive cast from Shaw Brothers' stable of actors, including Creator/TiLung, Creator/DerekYee, Creator/YuehHua, Creator/KaraWai, Li Ching, Fan Mei-sheng, Anthony Liu and several more, the movie is a box office success, known for being the highest-grossing Shaw Brothers film in the studio's history, spawning a sequel and an InNameOnly follow-up.
The legendary warrior, Li Hsun-huan (Ti Lung), known from his moniker "Flying Dagger Li", was once a famed martial artist and warrior of the ''jiang hu'', but after losing the woman he loves because of his pride, he have since given up his dreams and plans for becoming the top of all martial artists. Roaming the lands with his protégé, Ah Fei (Derek Yee), Li have to contend with the old rivals of his past while being reluctantly dragged into a martial arts conspiracy, namely one revolving around the ownership of an indestructible, all-powerful, yet weightless armoured shirt. And on top of the list of martial arts rivals after him, is the dreaded Master Long Xiao Yun (Yueh Hua).
Unusually for Shaw Brothers, despite the film's success, a sequel was released four years later in 1981 (a somewhat long gap, considering they tend to release follow-up movies between 6 months and 2 years apart), creatively titled ''Return of the Sentimental Swordsman''. This time, Li Hsun-huan and Ah Fei are challenged by another elite assassin, Jing Wuming (Fu Sheng), who originally wants Li dead, but soon they're forced to put their differences aside to battle the powerful Money Clan.
The third and last movie, ''Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman'', released a year later in 1982, somehow doesn't have Ti Lung's character, Li Hsun-huan, from the first tow movies. Instead, Ti Lung plays Chu Liu-xiang, a character from ''Film/ClansOfIntrigue'', which was somehow (for reasons unknown for over four decades) transplanted into ''The Sentimental Swordsman'' installment of films. If one were to consider the films to be in the same universe, then this could be Shaw Brothers' attempts at CanonWelding between two otherwise unrelated roles from one of their leading men, Ti Lung, from two originally unrelated franchises.
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!! ''The Sentimental Swordsman'' movies contains examples of:
* AddledAddict: Part of Li Hsun-huan's backstory; after forsaking the woman he loves because of his pride, Li can only find comfort in alcohol. See one line below.
* TheAlcoholic: Li Hsu-huan tends to spend most of his time ''not'' kicking ass drinking himself under the table in taverns. Unfortunately, most of his challengers tends to find and confront him while he's deep in booze.
* BadassCape: Li Hsun-huan dons a magnificient black cape that matches his clothing. Most of his opponents have similar capes as well, which is pretty much a given for ''wuxia''.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Most named characters wears ornate, coloured robes for ease of differentiation, but the ''Return of the Sentimental Swordsman'' have a rather blatant moment where the black-clad Li Hsun-huan fights Lu Fengxian the White Gown in a snowy arena. The black and white juxtaposition really sticks out.
* CombatHandFan: Li Hsun-huan's preferred weapon when he's not using throwing knives.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Played straight with Li Hsun-huan's preference of dark robes and capes.
* EnemyMine: In two movies, Li Hsun-huan have to ally himself with assassins otherwise sent to kill him - Long Xiao-yun in ''The Sentimental Swordsman'', Jing Wuming in ''Return of the Sentimental Swordsman'' - because they're facing the same enemy.
* EnsembleCast: Ti Lung, Derek Yee, Yueh Hua, Alexander Fu Sheng, and practically every major name in Shaw Brothers plays a major role in these movies.
* GratuitousNinja: Numerous mooks in the first movie are dressed up as ninjas, usually in night ambush scenes.
* GrimUpNorth: Much of both movies is set in the Chinese-Mongolian border, where it's constantly in the winter.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Li Hsun-huan is a devil with throwing knives, ''never'' missing a single shot. He's even good with knife-shaped objects, like [[spoiler: an icicle]].
* ImprovisedWeapon: In the first movie, villain Long Xiao-yun managed to counter Li Hsun-huan's throwing knife attacks with a magnetic shield. But Li managed to get around it by [[spoiler: throwing an icicle together with his last knife, killing his opponent via ice in the throat]].
* InASingleBound: Li Hsun-huan, and basically every named martial artist character, can traverse long distances with a single leap.
* InNameOnly: ''Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman'', despite the title and having Ti Lung in the titular role, does not feature Li Hsun-huan at all; instead the movie features Chu Liu-xiang, another swordsman character portrayed by Lung. Presumably there is a confusion among Shaw Brothers' higher-ups regarding the character and roles, resulting in another Ti Lung character from a different franchise getting transplanted into the otherwise unrelated ''Sentimental Swordsman'' series.
* KickTheDog: A rather literal example in ''Return of the Sentimental Swordsman''; Li Hsun-huan tries convincing several of his companions that they've been set up in a tavern, and the meat buns they're being served are actually poisoned, by throwing one of those to a random passing dog. Sure enough, the dog gets poisoned and killed on the spot.
* KnifeNut: They didn't call the protagonist "Flying Dagger Li" for nothing.
* TheLancer: Ah Fei, the plucky TagAlongKid sidekick character from the first two films, a young martial artist who follows Li Hsun-huan for his own reasons. He can hold his own exceptionally well even in big fight scenes and has the second most amount of character development after Li Hsun-huan.
* LogicalWeakness: Played with in the climatic duel of ''The Sentimental Swordsman''; [[spoiler: in the final battle, Long Xiao Yun managed to counter Li Hsun-huan's throwing knives with a magnetic shield, which absorbs every knife Li had flung towards his direction. So when the fight inevitably leads outside, Li throws his last knife - together with an icicle - at Long Xiao Yun. The magnetic shield catches the knife, but the icicle goes into Long's throat]].
* OfCorpseHesAlive: The first movie has a scene where Li Hsun-huan and his travelling companions enters a tavern full of people, but for some reason is entirely quiet, with the occuppants merely sitting in circles, nobody touching their foods. Then Li notes that everybody's dead - they're merely propped in their seats to look like they're alive, because it's a trap.
* PoisonedWeapons: The swords and daggers of the Black Snake cult members are tainted by snake venom.
* ProtagonistTitle: ''The Sentimental Swordsman'' refers to Li Hsun-huan.
* RealMenWearPink: Long Xiao-Yun, the main villain and Li's final opponent of the first movie, wears pink.
* RedBaron: The hero's name is Li Hsun-huan, but everyone who knew him, allies and enemies alike, all calls him "Flying Dagger Li".
* RevengeOfTheSequel: Close enough, with ''Return of the Sentimental Swordsman''.
* SnakesAreSinister: The first movie features the villanious Black Snake Sect, whose motif are based on snakes, and frequently use snake venoms in their weapons to poison their enemies.
* SwordFight: No ''wuxia'' is complete without at least a dozen of these.
* WalkingTheEarth: Most of Li Hsun-huan's life consists of him roaming the ''jiang hu'' seeking challenges to pass his time.
* {{Wuxia}}
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