On a continent which reveres its martial arts, the director's nickname Is 'Kung-fu Liang' - holder of a filmography unprecedented in its innovation of theme, ingeniousness of plot, and imagination of its astonishingly designed Kung-fu. This production is clearly the culmination of his initial Shaw Brothers work - the film which he used as a showcase for his and his brothers' - Chia-yung and Gordon Lui - skills. In the premiere, groundbreaking book on the genre, 'Martial Arts Movies', author Ric Meyers called it "the quintessential martial arts movie" and perhaps the greatest Kung-fu movie ever made.