Remarks: This is Special Uncut Completed Edition, the 1983 version, the original version which is before Andy Lau's version. It has a very nice boxset picture as shown. Do not be fooled by another version which is less expensive that has poor picture quality and packaging.
Andy Lau's version is also recommended, The return of the condor heroes
OR the special combo set of the two classic set Special combo set
The popular 1983 TVB version of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, available on DVD for the first time, now comes with English Subtitles! Making-of features are also included.
TVB made a series of costume dramas in the 80s based on famous swordplay novels by Jin Yong. His The Legend of the Condor Heroes, considered a seminal work of martial arts fiction, has been adapted numerous times to TV dramas and film, but none has attained a popularity as the one made by TVB in 1983. The innocent swordsman played by Felix Wong Yat Wah and the witty girl by the late Yung Mei Ling have remained one the best on-screen couple in Hong Kong's TV history. The cast also features Michael Miu Kiu Wai, Sharon Yang Pan Pan, Patrick Tse Yin, and Louise Lee Shut Ki.
The Guo and the Yang clan face brutal mass slaughter during the Southern Song era and all survivors scatter into the different directions afterwards. Guo Jing (Felix Wong) the successor in the line of the Guo clan is full of sincerity and perseverance. What's more ever since his early childhood he has been trained in top secret martial arts. The superb martial arts scholar accidentally runs into the lively and charming Huang Rong (Yung Mei Ling), which triggers a risky life and death romance! |