Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants
2025 Chinese film
Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants (Chinese: 射雕英雄传：侠之大者), also known as Legend of the Condor Heroes, is a 2025 Chinese historical martial arts film directed, produced and co-written by Tsui Hark. It stars Xiao Zhan and Sabrina Zhuang, and is based on chapters 34 through 40 of Jin Yong's wuxia novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes. It is one of multiple Tsui Hark productions based on Jin Yong's novels, following 1990's The Swordsman and 1992's Swordsman II.
The film was released in mainland China on 29 January 2025 (Chinese New Year).
Plot
The film is about the fictional martial artist Guo Jing during the Southern Song dynasty which was established after the Jingkang Incident.
While war rages between the Mongols and the Jin Dynasty, Guo Jing (Xiao Zhan) searches for Huang Rong (Zhuang Dafei), a woman he met during his two-year journey to the Middle Land to acquire martial arts skills from the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan. It was she who led him to a better master than his previous ones, Hong Qigong (Hu Jun) of the Five Greats, where he learned the powerful martial art Eighteen Dragon(-Subduing) Palms. Once, Huang Rong was seriously injured, and Guo Jing carried her on his back to seek Duan Zhixing (Wu Hsing-kuo). There, he learned the healing techniques of the Novem Scripture. When he accompanied her to her home at Peach Blossom Island, one day he found most of his former masters murdered. Since they had warned him about Huang Rong's father, Huang Yaoshi, he believed him responsible for their deaths and subsequently left her.
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