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I have this film "Golden Sword and the Blind Swordswoman" distributed by JIA's Motion Picture (H.K.) Co. and have also seen this titled "Zatoichi the blind swordsman" distributed by Ocean Shores. Starring Lee Shu, Shen Yi and Kong Ban, with Yee Yuen, Han Chiang, Ho Yu-Hua, Ho Fan and O Yau-Man.

The Blind Swordswoman (Lee Shu) is out for revenge against the man (the evil mr.Lee) that killed her father and blinded her. She has a best friend (that call each other sister) that's also blind, and happens to be mr. Lee's daughter, which also seeks revenge because he killed her mother, but is reluctant to do so, being it is her father. It seems that everyone in this film is after mr. Lee (the evil bastard has killed everybodys family).

Anyway... The blind swordswoman was saved and trained by a teacher and the blind daughter was taught by her mother (wait... I thought she was dead) which turns out to be the same woman teacher for swordswoman. I guess that this woman isn't dead, or is she? maybe a ghost? Oh... and a wandering swordsman (Kong Ban) that's been spying on the blind girls, helps them out of some trouble and we find out that he's a cousin. Later we find a long lost brother, another blind girl (or maybe not) and a bunch of characters that pop in.

This movie can be confusing, yet makes perfect sense. Has some decent fight scenes, yet some slow staged ones. It makes you say "that was stupid", yet keeps you intrigued enough to keep watching. A 50/50 for me. I've seen better and I've seen worse.

I caught this on Amazon Prime under the title THE BLIND SWORDSWOMAN. It's a low rent wuxia story clearly trying to cash in on the likes of the ZATOICHI series from Japanese as well as cinematic hits such as DRAGON GATE INN and the Shaw Brothers films of the era. The story is about a blind swordswoman (...) seeking revenge against the assailant who blinded her and killed her father when she was younger. She also has a female friend, also blind, who helps her out, and later the pair are joined by one of those beloved wandering swordsman figures known here as Golden Sword. The film is very cheap looking, with poor quality camera-work throughout, and the action is certainly nothing to write home about. Any of the alternate titles mentioned at the outset of this review would be a better bet.