Brigitte Lin plays Asia the Invincible who changes from man to woman as a result of the skill she learns from the sacred scrolls. As a woman, she falls in love with Ling (Jet Li) from Wu Tang who has Ying (Rosamund Kwan) as a girlfriend. Asia the Invincible has betrayed and tortured Rosamund's father who is the original sect leader Master Wu acted by Yan Yee Kwan. Kiddo (Michelle Reis) is the fellow disciple of Ling and also attracted to Ling. Waise Lee plays the Ninja working for Asia the Invincible. Fennie Yuen plays Blue Phoenix who is the assistant to Ying. Both Ling and Asia the Invincible are attracted to each other. Click for the conclusion of Swordsman II.
Both Brigitte and Jet Li acted brilliantly in this movie. This is such a difference for Jet Li as all his other roles are very sober and serious in nature. This movie shows Jet Li as a peaceful, fun-loving and reluctant swordsman. Although Jet Li acted well, he is overshadowed by Brigitte whose body language and facial expressions are very effective in this show. As a male voice was used for Brigitte in most of the show, this was quite impressive. Brigitte plays a heartless swordsman who changes into a swordswoman with feelings but whose change came too late for her to receive affection from anyone. Although Brigitte never truly fight with fists or weapons, her fighting is pretty convincing even though it was done with needles and threads with a couple of flicks with her wrists. In contrast, her opponents are energetic, sweat and blood pouring down from their foreheads and carrying swords, hooks and whips. You have to see the movie to see why Brigitte is so convincing. Look out for those forceful stares.
Brigitte caused panic during the filming of "Swordsman 2" when she could not come up from the water for a while when her wig got 'caught' to the cage that 'holds' her under the water. Thanks to Akiko and Stanley for the information.
A must see! A Hong Kong movie classic!
There is a Swordsman II soundtrack picts mp3 for this show and Brigitte Lin sings 2 songs. She also has her very own MTV videos for Swordsman II in BMG Karaoke No. 1. picts You can find the mtv video (real video format) at Daniel's Action Web.
There is a PC game for Swordsman II too!
Brigitte was a nominee in the Best Actress category for the 12th HK Film Awards in 1992.
Click to see the Swordsman II VCD and DVD covers. picts
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With our previous movie polls, 56 people voted with 92% (52 votes) who thought it was excellent, 1% (1 vote) who thought it was good, 3% (2 votes) who thought it was OK, 0% (0 votes) who thought it was bad and 1% (1 vote) who thought it was terrible.
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Awards won by Swordsman II
Cast : Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia, Jet Li Lian-Jie, Rosamund
Kwan Chi-Lam, Michelle Reis (Lee Ka-Yan), Fennie Yuen Kit-Ying, Waise
Lee
Chi-hung, Yang Yee-Kwan, Lau Shin, Chin Kar-Lok
Cameo : Yu On On
Director : Ching Siu Tung, Stanley Tong Kwai-Lai
Action Director : Ching Siu Tung,Yuen Bun, Ma Yuk Shing, Cheung Yiu
Sing
Producer : Tsui Hark
Associate Producer : Ching Siu-Tung
Writer : Tsui Hark, Hanson Chan Tin Suen, Elsa Tang Pik-Yin
Cinematographer : Tom Lau Moon Tong
Editor : Marco Mak (Maak Chi Sin)
Music Score : Richard Yuen Cheuk Faan
Costume : William Cheung Suk Ping, Bruce Yu
Production Manager : Dick Cho
Production Company : Golden Princess / Long Shong / Film Workshop
Spoken : Mandarin, Cantonese
Subtitles : English on both VCD & DVD, Traditional and Simplified
Chinese, Korean, Bahasa Malaysia, Japanese, Vietnamese, Bahasa
Indonesia
and Thai on DVD.
Film : Hong Kong
Distributor : Thunder Media, Mei Ah Laser Disc
