Comments on: Invincible Swordsman (2025) Review

By: Paul Bramhall

Paul Bramhall — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:28:11 +0000

Sadly audiences would have to wait until 1987’s Flaming Brothers to see Chow Yun Fat in drag. 😀

By: Paul Bramhall

Paul Bramhall — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:24:20 +0000

Damn, you’re right, and what makes it worse is the fact I’ve seen The Proud Youth as well! Had completely forgotten it’s also based on the same source material. I guess I should have rephrased it to ‘Invincible Asia focused adaptations of The Smiling, Proud Wanderer‘!

By: Cuttermaran

Cuttermaran — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:57:15 +0000

And also one with Chow Yun Fat in 1984

By: Killer Meteor

Killer Meteor — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:35:33 +0000

“While it’s almost impossible to count the number of time Yong’s The Condor Heroes has been adapted for the screen, comparatively The Smiling, Proud Wanderer is one of his lesser adapted stories. Apart from the Tsui Hark produced trilogy of the early 1990’s, there’s been a couple of TV adaptations in the 2000’s and that’s it, so the source materials relative scarcity of appearing onscreen make the comparisons to its last big screen adaptation all the more inevitable.”

There is a Shaw version – The Proud Youth. Though I expect a dragged-up Tin Ching is somehow less sexy than Brigitte Lin!