A swordsman uses a specialized weapon made from a deformed sword, the lethal hook, to fight an underworld clan to clear his family name and save the girl he loves in ancient China.

Kuo Chung, an affluent young man who is always looking for a fight, gets into a brawl that nearly kills him but is saved by Yueh Yi, a snake style kung fu master, who takes Kuo on as his pupil.

A martial arts whiz and his ambitious friend open a kung fu school, but only draw the attention of an angry student from the town’s only other school. A confrontation leads to a fight in a brothel that causes both schools to become targets of the brothel owner’s wrath.

念华和妻儿在新泽西过着平静的生活，但一次养父的要求让他回到了纽约的穷街陋巷，开启了一段冒险之旅…

抗日英雄丁一山（凌云），在长沙外围的沦陷区内神出鬼没，给予日军沉重打击，日军除派大批兵力搜捕外，尚悬赏通缉。讵知，丁却偏在这时潜入日军控制的某镇，拟从司令中岛（韦弘）手中取得兵力分布图；丁以古玩铺掌柜的身份出现，跟一众爱国志士协议计划。另，特务王玲（井莉）已打入伪军司令部，从事谍报活动，与丁内外夹攻……

When a poor young fishmonger is assaulted following a late delivery to a wealthy family, he attempts to join a drunken boxing school to learn self defense and befriends a monkey style kung fu artist, only to find that the family has employed two snake style kung fu experts as assassins.

A couple unite - she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, but the boy's father is killed by the evil eunuch Pai Mei. Disguised as a girl, his mom trains him in crane style while he secretly learns tiger style from his father's training manual.

Dragon and his madcap pal Cowboy spend their days getting into mischief, frustrating the elders, chasing girls, and competing in the village sport. When Dragon overhears a fiendish plot by smugglers to sell China's national treasures overseas, the pair leap into action. Also, Cowboy's wealthy father is kidnapped by the villainous and lethal Big Boss, and the scene is set for a furious martial arts showdown.

Based on a popular swordplay novel, this colorful and complex saga (whose Chinese title literally translates into the poetic Meteor, Butterfly, Sword) has enough conspiracies, stratagems, and sword fights to fascinate even novice kung-fu cinema viewers. The cast of Shaw Brothers' leading swordsmen and swordswomen are masterfully staged by Yuen Cheung-yan, the brother of Matrix and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping. The result is both a great action movie and an exceptional dramatic film.