Director: Chor Yuen
Notable Cast: Ti Lung, Lau Wing, Lo Lieh, Paul Chang Chung, Derek Yee, Shih Szu, Wai Wang, Ku Kuan-Chung, Cheng Miu
The Magic Blade is
a Shaw Brothers film that has accrued quite the devoted audience for its
somewhat eclectic and energetic nature as a film. Deservedly so for the sure
entertainment of its absurdity. In fact, there’s an entire article dedicated to
why The Magic Blade works in its
insanity on this site. However, it’s not
necessarily a well-known fact that the film had a sequel. This film is Pursuit of Vengeance and once again it
sees Ti Lung’s unshaven, poncho-wearin’ wandering badass Fu Hong-Xue become
involved in a complex conspiracy of the martial arts world where loyalties are
thin and the body count is high. For a film meant to follow up The Magic Blade, I’m not sure I would
expect anything more than wuxia insanity from this film.