CELESTIAL CLASSIC MOVIES

After spending fifteen years in prison on trumpedup charges for drug smuggling, the martial arts master Teng Piao embarks on a journey to take revenge on the person who sets him up Black Leopard. Unfortunately for Piao, no one knows the real identity of Black Leopard, except that there is a black leopard tattoo on his chest.

Some of Shaw Brothers biggest female stars of the 1970s share the screen in this tale of young love and interfering parents, starring Lily Li, Shu Pei Pei and Essie Lin Chia.

Convoy Master Lis wife has an affair with his rival Long, who plans to steal Lis Golden Blade and kill him as well as his young daughter. Li and his daughter manage to escape and the latter grows up to be a skilled swordswoman who vows to avenge her mothers death a lie told by Li. The truth is revealed when she sees her mother alive by chance.

This film is an amusing insiders look at the Hong Kong film industry and is based on Director Li Han Hsiangs popular newspaper column recounting his work at Shaw Brothers. The collection of some of his funniest and most surreal film musings of the era, filled with behindthescene asides, this is a mustsee for any Hong Kong cinema aficionado!