Wuxia Reviews

Superlative - everyone should see this

Great, a must-see if you like the genre

Good, a decent example of the genre

Watchable, but only for serious genre fans

Unwatchable

Half stars could have gone either way depending on mood.

Movie Name / Release Year	Summary	Date	Reviewer
New Kung Fu Cult Master (2022)	New but not necessarily improved	2022-12-06	Simon
The Killer Meteors (1976)	Reasonably entertaining fluff	2022-08-09	Simon
The Assassin (1967)	Impressive	2022-08-07	Simon
Thrilling Bloody Sword (1981)	Deranged and delightful	2022-07-29	Simon
The Twin Swords (1965)	Basically Temple Of The Red Lotus Part 2	2022-06-21	Simon
Temple Of The Red Lotus (1965)	Not quite as impressive as I remembered, but still pretty cool	2022-06-19	Simon
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)	This was pretty good, huh?	2022-05-11	Simon
Finger Of Doom (1972)	Ahead of its time	2022-02-06	Simon
Forbidden City Cop (1996)	One of the best Stephen Chiau films of the 1990's	2021-12-12	Simon
The Magnificent Trio (1966)	Deserves more appreciation	2021-11-29	Simon
Twelve Gold Medallions (1970)	Not quite as impressive as I remembered	2021-11-07	Simon
Lady With A Sword (1971)	Stands out from the crowd	2021-08-23	Simon
Web Of Death (1976)	Goofy but entertaining	2021-08-08	Simon
Golden Swallow (1968)	Chang Cheh brings his own style to Come Drink With Me sequel	2021-08-01	Simon
One-Armed Swordsman (1967)	One of the pillars of martial arts cinema	2021-07-18	Simon
Bat Without Wings (1980)	Sadly the KISS makeup is really the best thing about it	2021-06-13	Simon
The Magic Blade (1976)	One of the best Gu Long adaptations	2021-06-07	Simon
Bells Of Death (1968)	Simple but effective story of revenge	2021-06-06	Simon
Human Lanterns (1982)	A real masterpiece!	2021-05-24	Simon
Shadow Whip (1971)	Snowy whips	2021-05-17	Simon
Black Butterfly (1968)	A decent if unremarkable late 60's wuxia	2021-05-10	Simon
Have Sword, Will Travel (1969)	Chang Cheh in wuxia mode	2021-04-12	Simon
Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (1972)	One of the highlights of the Shaw Brothers catalogue	2021-04-01	Simon
Bloody Parrot (1981)	Very entertaining!	2021-03-08	Simon
The Storm Riders (1998)	A genuine epic that pioneered a new style of wu xia film	2021-02-27	Simon
The Brave Archer (1977)	Barebones adaptation of the Condor Heroes novels	2020-09-27	Simon
Dragon Gate Inn (1967)	Good but maybe not quite as good as its reputation	2020-09-02	Simon
Call of Heroes (2016)	Justice only exists if it is maintained	2020-08-24	Simon
The Butterfly Murders (1979)	Tsui Hark's first film	2020-08-17	Simon
Double World (2020)	Big budget epic fantasy	2020-07-26	Simon