Zhang Che revisits the premise of his epochal One-Armed Swordsman (1967) but with a gruesome difference. David Jiang portrays an arrogant warrior humbled by a nefarious opponent and forced to hack off his own arm. Years of waiting tables fortify his single-handed dexterity, but what finally launches him back on the path of bloody retribution is the untimely death of his comrade, played by Di Long. The actors were Zhang's preferred pairing of heroes in his ’70s films, and like other of the director's films about male bonding, The New One-Armed Swordsman is charged through with latent homoeroticism. Fuelled by the estimable action choreography of longtime collaborators Tong Kai and Lau Kar-leung, the film builds to an astonishing finale traversing the entire span of a bridge, and then some.