''The Sword of Many Loves'', also known as ''The Sword of Many Lovers'', is a 1993 Hong Kong film based on

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's novel '' The Young Flying Fox''. The film was produced by Golden Harvest and directed by Poon Man-kit.

Plot

Wu Fei (

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) and his uncle Ping travel together as brick salesmen. They find themselves traveling to the home of Ling (

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) to deliver bricks for the grave of Ling's recently deceased master, who himself was the mastermind behind a sect of poisoner's and as such was in possession of a medical manual. Other members of his poisoner's sect now want the medical manual for themselves, this results in an absurd assassination attempt on Ling, featuring a lot of

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. After witnessing this trouble, Fei and Ping run away and end up in

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, it is here that they learn their friend Chung has been framed by Young Fung, son of the local crime boss Master Fung. Fei and Ping intervene against the crime boss which leads to the death of Ping. Fei retreats from the scene but vows revenge for the murder of his uncle, after this Fei meets Purple Yuen who aims to stop the martial arts leaders from being distracted and return them back to their task of restoring the

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through a government-backed martial arts contest. Yuen wishes to beat all the leaders and claim the title for herself. Fei and Yuen then travel together, developing a romantic relationship with several elements of comedy. Fei then confronts Master Fung, Fei almost kills Master Fung but is stopped by Yuen, who is Master Fung's daughter. It is revealed that Fung killed Yuen's mother's family which caused her mother to commit

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. Yuen only stops Fei from killing Fung so that she may kill Fung herself as revenge. However Yuen is poisoned by Fung (causing her bottom to inflate), Fei then takes her to Ling to be cured. Ling has now fallen in love with Fei and will only cure Yuen if Fei breaks off his romantic relationship with Yuen. This leads to several comedic scenes and catfights until Yuen is finally cured. All three then attend the martial arts contest together with the aim of killing all the martial arts sects, culminating in a final showdown between Master Fung and Fei.

Cast

: ''Note: The characters' names are in Cantonese romanisation.'' *

as Woo Fei *

as Ching Ling-so *

Sharla Cheung Sharla Cheung Man (born 7 February 1968) is a Hong Kong actress and film producer. Career Cheung was discovered by Wong Jing, who cast her in her first film role in the 1986 film '' The Magic Crystal''. She continued to work with the director o ...

as Yuen Tze-yi *

Elvis Tsui Elvis Tsui Kam-kong (born October 12, 1961) is a Hong Kong actor and artist. Tsui is primarily known for his roles in erotic films and martial arts films, where he's more often cast as villains. Some of the famous characters he has portrayed repe ...

as Fung Nam-tin *

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as Mo Yung * William Ho as Sit Hei * Jassie Lam

External links

* * 1993 films Films based on works by Jin Yong Hong Kong martial arts films Films set in the Qing dynasty Wuxia films Works based on Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain 1990s Hong Kong films Golden Harvest films {{1990s-HongKong-film-stub