The Brave Archer 1977

The Brave Archer is the first in a four-part series that was based upon Jin Yong's wuxia novel,The Eagle Shooting Heroes.It has been the basis for several films including Ashes of Time (1994).

This bewildering adaptation begins as two Sung patriots and best friends meet a famous Chu Chien priest and fellow patriot who killed and beheaded a traitor. They bury the head by dropping it on the ground in front of their house and throwing a small pile of dirt over it. This error in judgment proves fatal for one of the friends who ends up dead after a group of Chin officials and their guards come looking for the man who killed the traitor and notice the odd pile of dirt. Take that as a lesson! The other man escapes and eventually raises a foster daughter. Meanwhile, the friends' two sons are saved by a group of Sung patriots led by Lu Feng. They agree to raise one of the boys, eventually played by Fu Sheng while the Chu Chien priest returns to raise the other. In eighteen years they intend to have the boys fight in order to see which styles of kung are better. Eighteen years later, Fu Sheng's kung fu has suffered as a result of having too many masters while the other child has excelled. Yet that other child eventually joins his mother who had been taken by the Chins and becomes a traitor himself. Fu Sheng then begins a odyssey of sorts. He meets a beggar who turns out to be a beautiful and wealthy young girl in disguise. The two fall in love and Fu Sheng will eventually have to compete in a contest for her hand in marriage. In the meantime, he learns martial arts from several masters including an unbelievable style called the 18 Palm technique from The Nine-Fingered Beggar that allows a person to rip apart large tree trunks with a single blow. Later, Fu Sheng memories an infamous martial arts manual from Phillip Kwok who plays a comical master in a ridiculous gray wig. The knowledge of this manual comes in handy when it turns out to be the final test in order for Fu Sheng to marry the girl.




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