There was a very important Chinese film that came out when I was eight years old. It was called “The One Armed Swordsman.” In it the star Jimmy Wang Yu played a swordsman whose arm is cut off by his enemies and he is left for dead. He recovers and learns how to fight using just one arm. He then goes on a seemingly impossible mission of revenge and redemption.
Like many Chinese swordplay movies of the 1960s, there was amazing fight choreography, ridiculous amounts of spurting blood and lots of mayhem. The film was a great success and was followed by two sequels, which were not as good.