They may not be household names, but three martial arts movies - collectively known as The One-Armed Swordsman trilogy - hold an incredible amount of significance, with its stories and creative decisions reverberating across the medium for years.

Released in the earliest days of the martial arts genre when it was still in its formative period, The One-Armed Swordsman was a highly influential, sword-fighting period piece from Shaw Brothers, the biggest studio associated with old-school kung fu movies . The 1967 film was directed by Chang Cheh and starred one of Shaw Brothers' top actors at the time, Jimmy Wang Yu.

Within four years, The One-Armed Swordsman received two quality sequels, and while that was the official end of the short-lived franchise, its legacy lived on in oth

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