The Brave Archer and His Mate

The Brave Archer and His Mate
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Traditional	神鵰俠侶
Simplified	神雕侠侣
Directed by	Chang Cheh
Produced by	Mona Fong
Screenplay by	Ni Kuang Chang Cheh
Story by	Louis Cha
Starring	Alexander Fu Philip Kwok Gigi Wong
Music by	Eddie H. Wang Chi-ren
Cinematography	Cho Wai-kei
Editing by	Chiang Hsing-lung Lee Yim-hoi
Studio	Shaw Brothers Studio
Release date(s)	February 25, 1982
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Mandarin
Gross revenue	HK$1,627,031.00

The Brave Archer and His Mate, also known as The Brave Archer 4 or Mysterious Island, is a 1982 Hong Kong film adapted from Louis Cha's novels The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Return of the Condor Heroes. Together with Little Dragon Maiden (1983), The Brave Archer and His Mate is regarded as an unofficial sequel to the Brave Archer film trilogy (The Brave Archer, The Brave Archer 2 and The Brave Archer 3).

Plot

(continued from The Brave Archer 3#Plot)

Guo Jing and Huang Rong return to Peach Blossom Island and are shocked to see that Guo's first martial arts teachers, the "Seven Freaks of Jiangnan", have all been murdered except for Ke Zhen'e. Guo Jing is tricked into believing that Huang Rong's father, Huang Yaoshi, is responsible for the murders and he attempts to avenge his teachers by fighting Huang Yaoshi. The intelligent Huang Rong eventually uncovers the truth and reveals that the murders are actually part of a plot masterminded by Ouyang Feng and Yang Kang. Ouyang and Yang want to make Guo Jing and Huang Yaoshi kill each other and Yang can learn Ouyang's newly mastered skills from the fake copy of the Nine Yin Manual.

Yang Kang gets his retribution eventually and dies in the Temple of the Iron Spear. He had fathered a child with Mu Nianci, and Mu entrusts their orphaned son, Yang Guo, to Guo Jing and Huang Rong before she dies as well. The film's setting moves to eighteen years later on Peach Blossom Island, where Yang Guo is now a grown-up. Guo Jing and Huang Rong have a teenage daughter, Guo Fu, and Guo Jing has also accepted two young disciples, the brothers Wu Xiuwen and Wu Dunru. Guo teaches the Wu brothers martial arts, but refuses to teach Yang Guo, because he is afraid that Yang Guo will follow his treacherous father's footsteps.

Yang Guo develops a rivalry with the Wu brothers and Guo Fu and he leaves the island. Yang meets Ouyang Feng, who has become insane after practising the skills in the fake copy of the Nine Yin Manual. Ouyang likes Yang Guo and teaches Yang his "Toad Skill". Yang begins to suspect that Guo Jing and Huang Rong might be responsible for the death of his parents, after listening to Ouyang Feng's incomplete account of the story. The situation is resolved eventually by Guo Jing, who brings Yang Guo to the Quanzhen Sect to be tutored in martial arts and moral principles by Yang Kang's former teachers.

Guo Jing and Yang Guo arrive at Quanzhen Sect's headquarters and see an ongoing battle between Quanzhen and some intruders, led by Huodu and Da'erba. Huodu and Da'erba attempt to break their way into a tomb near Quanzhen's headquarters, but Guo Jing and Yang Guo thwart their plans and defeat them.

Cast

• Alexander Fu as Yang Guo
• Philip Kwok as Guo Jing
• Gigi Wong as Huang Rong
• Lung Tien-hsiang as Yang Kang
• Lam Sau-kwan as Mu Nianci
• Wen Hsueh-erh as Guo Fu
• Wong Lik as Ouyang Feng
• Kwan Fung as Huang Yaoshi
• Chin Siu-ho as Wu Xiuwen
• Lau Fong-sai as Wu Dunru
• Chiang Sheng as Huodu
• Danny Lee as Ouyang Ke
• Chu Ko as Da'erba
• Chan Shen as Ke Zhen'e
• Chow Kin-ping as Zhu Cong
• Wan Seung-lam as Han Baoju
• Wong Wa as Nan Xiren
• Ching Li as Han Xiaoying
• Lu Feng as Zhao Zhijing
• Hung Fung as Hao Datong
• Wai Wang as Qiu Chuji
• Wang Han-chen as Ma Yu
• Wong Ching-ho as Wang Chuyi
• Ngai Tim-choi
• Siao Yuk
• Lam Chi-tai
• Yu Tai-ping
• Wong Siu-ming
• Lam Wai
• Hung San-nam
• Chan Tak-hoi
• Ting Tung
• Choi Kwok-keung
• Ailen Sit

External links

• Shen diao xia lu (1982) at the Internet Movie Database
• The Brave Archer and His Mate at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase