The Lady Hermit (Cheng Pei Pei) has become a legend in the martial world, a woman who cannot be defeated in combat. However, as her name seems to say, no one can find her. Chin Tsui-peng (Shih Szu) wants to seek her out, as she wants to take her fighting skills beyond where they are now. Her travels bring her to a small town where she meets Wu Chang-chun (Lo Lieh) and starts to get closer to finding the woman that she wants to be her teacher.

To find her, Chin Tsui-Peng starts to fight the soldiers of the evil Black Demon (Hsieh Wang), the only person who can seem to bring the Lady Hermit out of exile. She keeps showing up and destroying his baddies, only to vanish.

Of course, everyone meets and the young and impetuous Chin Tsui-peng must learn to curb her youthful arrogance if she’s to discover how to do the amazing things that the Lady Hermit can do, like kick chopsticks into the eyes of her enemies or slice bamboo trees and then impale men on them. She also has this bowl throwing attack that made me want to start my own art of kitchen killing.

The Black Demon is no easy final villain. He can somehow survive a stab in the stomach, a dagger or two to the head and numerous blades in his body while still being deadly. He also has a tower full of goons that must be defeated. The undertakers in this town had to get rich from this battle, because our heroines just go wild. They have a ton of blood all over them and not much of it is their own.

Directed by Ho Meng-Hua, this movie has not just one but two deadly women who need no one to save them. I mean, Chin Tsui-peng kills so many of the bad guys who have cornered her on a bridge by slicing the ropes and nearly ending her own life. That’s how tough you get when you train with the Lady Hermit and she throws cats at you.

The Arrow Video Shaw Scope Volume Three box set has a brand new 2K restoration of The Lady Hermit as well as commentary by critic James Mudge and a trailer.

You can get this set from MVD.