The Shaw Scope Volume 3 box set has several wuxia films by Chor Yuen that star Ti Lung. In this one, he plays Zhao Wuji, a swordsman who learns that his father has been killed. He’s so upset — and ready for revenge — that he cancels his wedding and gets pulled into a battle between two families, the Tang Family Sect led by Master Tang Ao (Yueh Hua) and his own family’s Zhao Clan who have no successor to his father, as he had hidden his will in a jade tiger that has been lost.

Chor Yuen made many of Gu Long’s books into movies, but this film has the author writing the screenplay which comes from his work The White Jade Tiger. 

How important was Zhao Wuji’s wedding anyways? After all, he was dueling with Dugu Sheng (Norman Chu) beforehand, a man who respected that he was about to be wed, while our hero claims that he would rather die a bachelor and not have a widow. He then takes on the name Shangguan Ren and becomes part of the Tang Family Sect, getting to know his father’s murderer and somehow not hating him as much as he would have suspected.

As much as this is a talky tale filled with twists and turns, it has Master Lu in it, a man so deadly that he uses his glass eyeballs as weapons. He has exploding eyeballs. Let that wash over you.

That said, this is probably not a good first time Shaw Brothers watch. You need to be a bit more into these films, know the actors and the reasons, and then you’ll enjoy this more than someone who hasn’t had a steady relationship with these movies.

The Arrow Video Shaw Scope Volume Three box set has a brand new 2K restoration of Jade Tiger as well as commentary by critic Ian Jane and a trailer.

You can get this set from MVD.