The Swordswoman of Huangjiang

The Swordswoman of Huangjiang (1930)

荒江女俠

A fight in the name of justice.

The Swordswoman of Huangjiang was a popular book that started with the decision to get revenge on her father's death. She left her birth town to travel through the country, fighting for justice. The story's been adapted by Chen Kengran into a thirteen part film series of which this is the only remaining episode.

Date of release
1930-08-10
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Action, Adventure
Director
Kengran Chen, Yisheng Zheng

Casting

Interesting facts

The Swordswoman of Huangjiang was a 13-film wuxia series. The only film of the series which still exists today was its first installment, Uproar At the Baolin Temple, which is the lone surviving film of Chen's silent-era oeuvre as well as one of only two surviving Chinese films of its kind from that period. The entire series was filmed over two years and includes elements of drama, comedy, and action. It featured archetypical motifs that would become common in the wuxia films which began to appear and gain popularity more than three decades later.

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