The Legend of The Condor Heroes: The Cadaverous Claws

Sinossi

“The Legend of the Condor Heroes” by Louis Cha is undoubtedly the most
popular wuxia novel ever published, which has been adapted into numerous
films and television series since the fifties. Instead of fitting the hundreds of
characters in the original novel into one film, THE LEGEND OF THE CONDOR
HEROES: THE CADAVEROUS CLAWS re-imagines the story behind the
Master of the Peach Blossom Isle and his disciple Twister, who is one of the
most heinous but tragic antiheroes in Cha’s novels.

A teenaged girl is taken to the Peach Blossom Isle to be trained under its
dashing master. After picking up her martial arts skills speedily, she renames
herself Twister. While her fellow apprentice Tempest becomes head of heels
in love with her, she has her eyes on the Master himself. When this infatuation
is inevitably spurned and the Master comes home with a pregnant wife after
disappearing for two years, Twister is at the end of her tether. She steals the
“9 Yin Manual” from the Master and elopes with Tempest.

Twister and Tempest start falling in love and decide to get married. But they
soon find themselves hunted down by everyone across the land for practicing
the Cadaverous Claws on human skulls. On their wedding night, Tempest is
killed by a young boy while Twister is blinded. Many years later, Twister arrives
at Cloud Village to seek revenge, only to discover that the boy has grown up to
be the boyfriend of her Master’s daughter. When she finally meets the Master
again, who is under deadly attack, she decides to make the ultimate sacrifice
to atone for her earlier betrayal.