On his way to a congress of kung fu masters, an initiate falls from a high cliff, only to be rescued by lovely Tien Lam (Anita Mui),who rides a huge crane. The rest of the movie features a battle between warring martial arts factions, an equally fierce rivalry between the two daughters of the Crane Master, the accidental empowerment of an unprincipled master after having eaten half of a secret scroll, a battle with an immense tortoise whose spleeny vapors save a group of poisoned swordsmen, lots of great aerial fights against nearly invincible villains, and the usual blood spurting from assorted mouths.

• Long Shong Pictures
• Film Workshop
• Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
• Anita Mui Yim-Fong
• Rosamund Kwan Chi-Lam
• Lawrence Ng Kai-Wah
• Damian Lau Chung-Yan
• Norman Tsui Siu-Keung
• Jay Lau Kam-Ling
• Lau Shun