The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter (1984) - full transcript

[THE DHARMA CHAKRA PERPETUALLY TURNS]
[THE DHARMA PROPAGATES FORTH]

DIVINATION SLIP:
SEVEN. SON. ADVANCE. SIX. SON. RETURN.

[SPIRIT TABLET OF THE ANCESTORS
OF THE YANG CLAN]

"Seven sons go forth,

"six sons return."

Mother.

It seems the campaign at Golden Beach
will not bode well for the Yang Family.

Mother.

According to this divination slip, well...

We will eventually lose an elder brother.

Indeed.



For the sake of expelling the barbarians
from our nation of Great Song,

even if a life must be sacrificed,
it is worth it.

However, of my seven sons,

I do not know which one will
sacrifice himself to save the kingdom!

Arrival of the Father of the Empress...!

My daughter, I bring dire news.
Your brother--

Pan Mei seeks audience with
the Lady of the Southern Palace.

- Arise.
- Thank you, My Lady.

Father, what is it?

This morning at the arena,
your third brother, Pan Pao...

was beaten to death.

Third Brother is dead?! Who killed him?!

It was Yang Yeh's seventh son: Yang Ssu!

Yang Ssu...?



- Father, I want--
- My Lady.

- Stand down!
- Understood.

Father, I will petition His Majesty
to have Yang Ssu convicted!

No, wade through grass
without alerting snakes.

Yang Yeh's position in the Imperial Court
is already too secure.

As long as the Yang Family is undivided,
they will be a thorn in our side!

Father, what should we do?

At the battle of Golden Beach,
I will annihilate the Yang Family!

Kill...!

Charge...!

Such mighty Yang Family Spearplay!

It truly lives up to its renown!

Your end is now.

Traitor!

Fifth Brother!

Fifth Brother...!

Sixth Brother...!

Big Brother...!

Kill!

Barbarians!

Third Brother!

I must kill...!

Brothers, we kill...!

Third Brother...!

Hold it!

Do not kill him.

Take him back with us.

Second Brother!

Second Brother...!

[GRAVESTONE OF LI LING]

Yang Yeh!

Pan Mei...!

Fire!

Chi-Lang!

Traitorous viper...!

Fire!

What patriotism!

Charge!

Seventh Brother!

Father...!

Father...

We, the Yang Clan,
have been nothing but loyal!

Why would His Majesty
take heed of a villain,

sending the Generals of the Yang Family
into a trap here at Golden Beach,

destroying us, the Yang Family?!

Traitorous official! Barbarians...!

Show yourselves! Show yourselves...!

I found them...

I found them! Kill...!

Sixth Brother!

Sixth Brother!

Stop it!

No! You're not!

- Kill! Kill...!
- Sixth Brother...!

[TIEN-PO RESIDENCE]

[FROM THE EMPEROR TO THE YANGS:
THIS HOUSE BE FULL OF PATRIOTS]

LILY LI as DOWAGER SHE

- Mother.
- Mother.

- Pa-Mei offers greetings to Mother.
- Chiu-Mei offers greetings to Mother.

Mother, you don't need to be so worried.

Father is leading our seven brothers
into battle at Golden Beach,

they will definitely return victorious.

That's right, Mother.
With our peerless Yang Family Spearplay!

Chiu-Mei, don't be like that.

Those Liao Kingdom barbarians
will be scared just hearing our name!

But there has been no news at all since.

Pan Mei suddenly advised His Majesty

to despatch the Yang Family
on an expedition to the northern border.

This must be some kind of a plot.

Furthermore, the divination slip read:

"Seven sons go forth, six sons return."

Could there be another interpretation?

- Sixth Brother!
- Liu-Lang!

Barbarians, show yourselves!

Show yourselves...!

- They've returned victorious!
- They've returned victorious!

They've retur--

Liu-Lang, where is your father?

Pan Mei...

Pan Mei...!

Where are your brothers?!

Traitorous official...

Traitor...!

Liu-Lang, where are your younger brothers?

Liu-Lang, tell me!

Tell me...!

Big brother!

What are you doing?!

Sixth Brother...!

- Mother!
- Young master!

Liu-Lang! Liu-Lang!

You are a good child.

Calm your mind.

Tell your mother...
what actually transpired at the battle!

Yes, Sixth Brother.

Tell Mother why you only you alone
rushed home in the dead of night?

- I'm home...?
- Right! You've come home!

Sixth Brother, how many barbarians
did you all slay?

Good child...

Tell me.

- Kill...!
- Big Brother!

Poke poke poke poke
poke poke poke poke...!

How many did I slay?

I couldn't kill a single one.

Let me tell you something.

Golden Beach... was a trap!

Pan Mei... Pan Mei...
You want to eradicate us, the Yang Clan?

Let me tell you something.

Eldest Brother... was...
stabbed to death by short swords!

Mother!

Second Brother was...
disembowelled by manic hooks!

His guts flew everywhere...!

Third Brother's death was
even more tragic!

Thousands of troops
and thousands of horses went...

and trampled him to death.

Fourth Brother...
was taken captive by the barbarians!

Fifth Brother vanished without a trace...

Little Seventh Brother...

Poke poke poke poke
poke poke poke poke...!

died from ten thousand arrows
through the heart...!

Mother!

Mother!

What about your... father, then...?

He smashed his skull...
on the Gravestone of Li ling!

Father...!

Yang Yeh...!

Why are you kneeling?

I'll kneel as well...

Pan Mei...!

Liu-Lang...

Seven sons go forth...

Six sons return...

And so it would be
the battle of Golden Beach,

from which only my sixth son
would come home.

The will of the heavens...

[INNER YANG]

[PROSPERITY, STATUS, LONGEVITY, JOY]

My Prince, to what do I owe the pleasure?

Pan Mei, we have already
fulfilled our role in this affair,

and eliminated the Generals of
the Yang Family at Golden Beach.

The Prince is here to ask
why you haven't you kept your word

and pulled back the Song troops
at the border

so we, the kingdom of Great Liao,
can enter unimpeded!

The Prince commands my absolute loyalty.

However, there is something that
weighs heavily on my heart.

That is Yang Wu-Lang and Yang Liu-Lang
still reside in this mortal plain!

Men!

YEUNG SAI-GWAN as KHITAN GENERAL

SEK GONG as KHITAN GENERAL
- My Prince!
- My Prince!

Our plan was utterly infallible.

Our weapons were designed specifically
to defeat the Yang Family spear.

How could they have escaped?!

My Prince, you should give them the chance
to atone for their failure.

We must act swiftly.

If Wu-Lang and Liu-Lang were to retaliate,

it would affect your grand plans to
advance troops into the Central Plain.

Pan Mei, we shall intercept from
every direction and kill them.

We must pull them up the roots!

Barbarian!

LAU KAR LEUNG as HUNTER
You bandit!

Are you a Yang deserter?!

No! I'm not a deserter!

You're not? Then why have you come
to a place as remote as this?!

This has nothing to do with you!
Who are you?!

Who am I?

I live here!

I survive by hunting.

A simple hunter removed from the world!

Gallant sir, I had been overcome
with paranoia.

I mistook you for a Barbarian.

So you fought against the barbarians?

Correct. A battle at Golden Beach
to expel the barbarians.

We were ambushed.

Oh... No wonder you came here to hide.

Wrong!

We, the Generals of the Yang Family,
do not cling to life, fearing death!

You don't cling to life, fearing death?

Then why didn't you stay on the beach
to kill the enemies?!

We, the Generals of the Yang Family...

fell to a trap by the
Father of the Empress.

But Pan Mei and Yang Yeh have
always fought side by side!

Indeed!

We could have imagined
at the battle of Golden Beach...

he would bring ruin to the Yang Family?!

General of the Yang Family,
let me tell you this.

I was once a general
beneath Pan Mei's banner!

I know him well.

He has always envied the great deeds
the Yang Family have done for Song.

He also fears that he will
disgrace himself before His Majesty.

So he conspired with the barbarians,
betraying his kingdom to destroy the Yang!

Pan Mei...

You traitorous viper!

I'd risk death to condemn you
at the Imperial Court.

I want you torn to pieces!

- How can you return there now?
- You're right!

He has colluded with the barbarians...
to hunt me down wherever I go.

He is leaving no one alive.

Yes.

Gallant sir, all my brothers are gone.

The blood of my father Yang Yeh
stains the Gravestone of Li Ling.

I, Yang Wu-Lang, am the sole survivor.

General Yang Wu-Lang.

I am.

I hope gallant sir will lend
me his strength,

and join me in testifying against Pan Mei.

General Yang, it is of no use.

Pan Mei is all powerful now.

As if His Majesty would trust me,
an insignificant former general.

He will. The tragedy at Golden Beach:
I witnessed it with my own eyes!

You're the only one still alive!
Do you have any proof?

The Yang Family have been loyal for
a generation. His Majesty will believe us.

General Yang, you are much too confident.

If Pan Mei can't get rid of you,
he will still turn and bite you.

He'll accuse you of desertion,
of betraying the country!

Yes.

His Majesty has already issued an edict

declaring my defection...

and my betrayal...

If His Majesty has already branded
you a traitor, why would you go back?!

- I cannot bear to watch--
- You want to be loyal!

But your country won't let you!

- And the Yang Family's indignation?!
- It must be avenged!

But while Pan Mei wields authority,
you are but one man!

Wu-Lang...

As the saying goes: "Ten years is not too
long a wait for a gentleman's revenge."

Learn to be like me,

- and let it go for now...
- I cannot!

- Surround them!
- Aye!

Kill...!

- Escape using the underground passage.
- No! I'll kill them all!

He used an underground--

Where is Yang Wu-Lang?!

I don't know.

- Search!
- Aye!

If you want to live,
then tell me where Yang Wu-Lang is!

He's gone.

After him!

After him!

[THIS HOUSE BE FULL OF PATRIOTS]

Mother...

- Sixth Brother!
- Sixth Brother!

The two of you, leave him alone.

Allow him some peace and quiet.

Hopefully, it will speed up his recovery.

[TIEN-PO RESIDENCE]

- Knock!
- Aye!

Open up...! Open up...!

Ask those outside: Who goes there?

How dare they pound at the entrance
of the Yang residence!

Who is it?!

Arrival of Imperial Edict...!

Who presents the Imperial Edict?!

Father of the Empress of Great Song:
General Pan Mei!

Pan Mei?!

Traitorous viper...!

- Sixth Brother!
- Sixth Brother!

Take him back inside.

Take him back inside!

I'll kill...!

I will kill Pan Mei...!

- Open the door!
- Open the door!

- Search!
- Aye!

How presumptuous!

Great General Pan.

The Yang residence is observing
a period of mourning for fallen patriots.

This is no place for your lackeys
to come barging in!

We are here to apprehend traitors!

And who might be a traitor?!

I led the Yang Family soldiers
into battle at Golden Beach

where soon it was apparent the Yang father
and sons fought only half-heartedly.

Therefore, the border was lost.

There must have been a conspiracy
with the barbarians!

By the mandate of heaven,

the Imperial Court condemns the
Father and sons of the Yang Family!

What a fine comdemnation
from the Imperial Court.

We, the Yang Family, are loyal
to our kingdom, devoted patriots!

His Majesty bestowed upon us long ago:
"This house be full of patriots".

And to this aged woman,
the Dragon Head Cane:

To admonish wickedness
and banish evil!

I bear His Majesty's edict,
Madam Yang you...

General Pang, you may proceed
with your official business uninhibited.

The father and sons of the Yang Family
fell victim to an ambush at Golden Beach.

All of them have already met their demise.

You should have investigated first.

Who is left for you to apprehend?

The Yang Family's hallowed place
of mourning for fallen patriots

does not abide the
interference of outsiders!

As far as I know, there are still two
on the run.

- Two...?
- They are Yang Wu-Lang and Yang Liu-Lang.

If the two of them were lucky
enough to escape death,

upon their immediate return here,

this aged woman will personally see them
to the Imperial Court to face His Majesty.

Please relay to His Majesty

that under the Dragon Head Cane,
there exists no sentiment!

- See our guest out!
- Understood!

- General Pan, please.
- General Pan, please.

Very well! Madam Yang,
I take my leave!

- Mother...
- Mother...

Wu-Lang... Where could you be...?

Kill...!

Gallant sir...

You gave your life to save mine

for nothing but the hope that
I would live and avenge the country.

You spoke the truth.

I want to be loyal.

But my country won't let me!

I must conceal my identity.

Bide my time!

Kill...!

Young master! Young master!

Kill...!

Kill...!

Liu-Lang!

You savages!

- Sixth Brother...!
- The two of you stay back!

I must beat out as much
of his inner frustration as possible!

Kill...!

Kill...!

Kill...!

- Sixth Brother!
- Sixth Brother!

[SEEK REFUGE IN BUDDHA]

[CHING LIANG TEMPLE]

[MAHAVIRA HALL]

You...!

This disciple wholeheartedly devotes
himself to Buddha.

And you are?!

I must be tonsured.

I must wholeheartedly
devote myself to Buddha!

PHILLIP KO as ABBOT OF CHING LIANG TEMPLE
- Mount Wutai is far from civilisation.

Benefactor, you spared no hardship

trekking into such remote mountains
to arrive at our humble temple.

For what reason have you come here?

Great master, the sensuous world is
an illusion for this disciple.

I am determined to enter monasticism!

Amitābha.

Although I see sorrow in your eyes,
they are also filled with malice.

Your supposed transformation from
red fish to green bell

is nothing but an impulsive act.

Great master, halt your steps.

You understand my intentions,
yet you do not ask who I am!

Amitābha.

This humble monk is a follower of Buddha.

He asks not of the affairs of the world.

There exists no affinity between us.

Why are you offended so?

- Benefactor!
- I am the infamous traitor, Yang Wu-Lang!

Benefactor, please do not tell lies
before the Buddha.

Great master...

I am Yang Wu-Lang!

You are not.

I am...!

A spear without a spearhead.

How can this deserve
to be called a Yang Family Spear?

Do not continue to pose as a
General of the Yang Family.

I am Yang Wu-Lang...!

[YANG WU-LANG]

Yang Wu-Lang?

Benefactor Yang, please pardon
this humble monk's discourtesy just now.

Great master...

Disciple Wu-Lang has
a kingdom he cannot avenge,

a family he cannot return to.

This is why he severed the spearhead,
resolving to seek refuge in Buddha.

Benefactor Yang, your body is with Buddha,
but your heart lies in the material world.

How can you possibly undertake tonsure
with a pure heart?

Great master...!

I want to be tonsured!

Don't stand in my way!

Great master...!

[PURE HEART HALL]

Great masters.

Do not obstruct me.

I wish to forget my existence,
seek refuge in Buddha.

Please temper my frustrations.

Tonsure me!

Discourtesy is not acceptable!

Benefactor, Ching Liang Temple
is a place of purification.

Your formidable air should be used to
combat enemies on the battlefield.

You are right.

Be victorious on the battlefield,

and enjoy glory and splendour,
wealth and status.

However...

See defeat on the battlefield,
and what happens then?

CHING CHU (KING LEE)
as GREAT MASTER CHIH-KUNG

There is no compassion for the fallen.
There is no loyalty for the survivors.

- Amitābha.
- Amitābha.

For the followers of Buddha,
the sensuous world is an illusion.

They ask not of the world.

These are the principles
this disciple has embraced.

I wish to wholeheartedly enter Buddhism.

Benefactor, your murderous aura
is not yet under control.

Furthermore, your heart is heavy
with sorrow.

Perhaps your fate does not yet lie
alongside the Buddha.

Benefactor, restrain your savagery!

What fine Yang Family Spearplay!

I want to be tonsured!

Junior brother.

The hair lies upon benefactor's own head.

If he himself does not want it,
who are we to stop him?

Understood, Abbot.

Amitābha... Amitābha...

Thank you, Abbot!

Amitābha... Amitābha...

Amitāyus.

Amitābha.

Abbot!

You lied to me!

Why won't you shave me?!

If you won't shave me,
I will set Ching Liang Temple ablaze!

[THE WISDOM OF BUDDHA
IS A SUN HANGING ABOVE]

[THOSE LIVING CREATURES FERRIED BY BUDDHA]

Fifth Brother...!

Young master!

Mother.

Sixth Brother's mind is still so clouded,

how can he testify against Pan Mei
at the Imperial Court?

Mother, if this continues,

the Yang Family will never see justice!

Jiu-Mei!

Sixth Brother, come to your senses!

We're testifying against Pan Mei
at the Imperial Court!

We're leaving!

Sixth Brother, we are mourning our father.

How can we go to the Imperial Court
and face His Majesty?

- Liu-Lang...
- Mother, I must go!

Sixth Brother!

Kill...! Kill...! Sixth Brother!

[BUDDHA]

Oh, General Yang, you're awake?

Great masters...

Is this...

Is this Ching Liang Temple?

Yes, this is Ching Liang Temple's
rear courtyard.

Then this means I have
entered into monkhood.

I've become a monk!

I've become a mon--

General Yang, it's best you stay here.

It's been several days since
you've last eaten.

I've been unconscious for days?

Bring in some vegetarian dishes.

General Yang, the abbot has asked

that once your wounds have healed
to please remove yourself from the temple.

[TRANQUILITY]

Tell your abbot that I, Yang Wu-Lang,
have shaved my head and become a monk.

I'm not leaving no matter what!

Understand? Understand?!

Brother, it's no wonder the abbot said...

What did he say?!

He said you could never be a monk.

He said I could never be a monk?

[A CLEAR HEART IS AS A MIRROR]

[MEDITATION]

[WOLF FANG STAFF]

Yang Wu-Lang, why are you here?

Great master.

As this disciple lacks the still heart
to recite sutras,

can he instead be a
monastery guardian monk,

and train with the other brothers?

Wolf Fang Staff training chamber is
a place only for those ferried by Buddha.

You yet to have Buddha in your heart,

so how can you practise the staff
alongside Buddha?

Great master, please rest assured.

While Wu-Lang's heart is not yet at peace,
the martial arts still survive within him.

Moreover, I have lived
a hundred battles on the battlefield.

What have I to fear of
wild mountain wolves?

Yang Wu-Lang!

Great master,

when fighting such ferocious wild wolves,
one must make a mess of their four legs.

The other wolves will smell
the scent of flesh and blood,

and so understand the agony of dying.

They will never dare return!

You are wrong.

Wild wolves may violate our
vegetable gardens here on Mount Wutai.

But we who have entered into monkhood
carry the virtue of never taking lives!

We never kill another living creature;
only wound the fangs of the wolf.

No matter how ferocious a wolf may be,
it will not be able to unleash its might.

Furthermore, we have meted out
to them a severe punishment.

From then on, they never dare
encroach upon Mount Wutai again.

At this monastery, we train in poles
only to strike the wolves' fangs.

Therefore, its name is Wolf Fang Staff.

Great master, what you do is incorrect.

If you only knock out the wolves' fangs
and not kill them,

once they have recovered their vigour,

they will only regroup with strength
to violate your Mount Wutai again.

How many monks here can actually
face off against these ferocious wolves?

Yang Wu-Lang, I always knew
your viciousness remained untamed!

Great master,

from the outset, I only ever wanted
to be a monastery guardian monk.

This temple will never accept
a disciple like you!

Great master, since Mount Wutai has
already taken me, Yang Wu-Lang, in,

it makes no sense that I cannot
train with you.

- How dare you test me so?!
- Junior brother.

He speaks the truth.

Wu-Lang has Wu-Lang's own beliefs.

He is only thinking of
the welfare of the temple.

Senior brother.

These beliefs of Wu-Lang,

they already trespass against our
Buddhist tenet of no killing.

Great masters, this disciple has only just
entered into Buddhism

and is uneducated in its precepts.

For having acted with such impertinence,

this disciple asks the two great masters
to begin his spiritual practice anew.

Yang Wu-Lang,

every move and every form of
your Yang Family Spearplay

is intended for killing.

You wish to begin your
spiritual practice anew?

Then first purify your heart,
and keep hold of our precepts.

Only then will you be allowed to train
within the Wolf Fang Staff Chamber.

[TURN YOUR HEAD TO SEE THE SHORE]

Yang Wu-Lang!

Great master!

Please rest assured.

This disciple will train
until his heart is as pure as water.

You transformed the Yang Family Spearplay
into a pole form.

You have attained martial arts sublimity.

Great master, so this means I can join
the other brothers

in the Wolf Fang Staff Chamber and
begin my spiritual practice anew?

Yang Wu-Lang, no matter
how much you study,

Mount Wutai will never be
where you belong!

- What do you mean?
- I hope you leave this temple post-haste!

I cannot!

I suffered untold hardships,
gave away all I had

in order to become a disciple of Buddha.

I will never leave Mount Wutai!

[THE DHARMA HAS NO BOUNDARY]

[SUTRA RECITATION HALL]

Brother, what has happened?

Great Master Chih-Hung
has descended the mountain.

[TIEN-PO RESIDENCE]

Who trespasses onto forbidden land?!

Amitābha.

Great master, why are you here?

I have come to Tien-Po Residence

to ferry the souls of the dead
into the next life for the Yang Family.

Ferry the souls of the dead?

Great master, why's there only one of you
to perform rites?

Indeed. There is only this
single humble monk.

Where are your kāṣāya and certification?

This humble monk has come from afar.

and did not bring his kāṣāya
and certification.

Where did you come from?!

I have come from near the border.

- Seize him!
- Aye!

Halt!

- Release him.
- Aye.

- Orders from the General: Let him pass!
- Aye!

Hey, hey, Great master...

You can't-- You can't go in...

What's happening?

Eighth Mistress, this great master was
originally begging for alms at the gate.

Now he wants vegetarian dishes,
and barged his way in.

Yeah! He barged in!

He wants vegetarian dishes?

Great master, even if you want
vegetarian dishes,

you should still wait outside.

Amitābha. The vegetarian dishes
this humble monk seeks,

must be personally prepared
by Madam Yang herself.

What impudence!

Monk, those who are not of the Yang Family

are not allowed even half a step
inside our home! Get out!

Amitābha...

Who are you?!

Eighth Mistress Yang,
this humble monk is...

You were sent here by Pan Mei?!

Pa-Mei! Stop!

Mother! This monk is
sorely lacking in manners!

He barged in here to beg for alms,

then wanted Mother to personally cook
vegetarian dishes for him!

What nonsense!

Chiu-Mei!

Amitābha.

Pa-Mei, welcome the great master inside.

Mother...

This monk was sent here by Pan Mei!

Do not be ill mannered.

Quickly welcome his great master inside.

Understood.

Great master, please.

Madam Yang.

This humble monk has come here from afar
only to beg for alms,

and to ask Madam Yang
for some vegetarian dishes.

Why would I be acquainted with the great
general of the Imperial Court: Pan Mei?

Sixth Brother!

Sixth Brother!

Benefactor!

Sixth Brother!

My child has offended you greatly!
Great master, are you hurt?

Madam Yang,

this humble monk could never have guessed
while asking for vegetarian dishes,

he would offend members
of the Yang Family.

Great master, since the Yang Family
were ensnared at Golden Beach,

this young child's mind has yet
to be roused from its stupor.

Amitābha.

Liu-Lang!

Madam Yang, your son's martial arts
are extremely mighty.

How truly tragic...

Had he not suffered such a great trauma,

this son's martial arts would be
comparable with Yang Wu-Lang's.

Wu-Lang...?

Benefactor...!

- Six Brother! Sixth Brother!
- Great master!

Why did you bring up my Fifth Brother?
Where is he?!

- Where is he?! Tell me!
- You have to calm down!

Benefactor Yang, those who mean well
need not run their mouths.

Even the slightest affinity
will provide awakening.

Madam Yang, this humble monk
has stayed too long.

I take my leave.

- Great master!
- Sixth Brother!

Desist with your questioning.

Great master, the vegetarian
dishes I will personally prepare,

may I ask where I should
have them delivered?

Mount Wutai. Ching Liang Temple.

- Great master...!
- Sixth Brother, stop it!

So Wu-Lang is on Mount Wutai
at Ching Liang Temple.

Why did he not return?

- I'm going to look for Fifth Brother!
- Liu-Lang.

Your mind has still not fully recovered.

Moreover, Pan Mei's men are everywhere.

If you were to make a misstep,

how would we testify to Pan Mei's
conspiracy at the Imperial Court?

Mother, let me go--

I have my own ways.

The monk's on his way.

Everyone get ready.

[TEA]

Benefactors, I'm being ambushed!

Benefactor, help me!

The barbarians have infiltrated the city!

You savages...!

The barbarians have infiltrated the city!

What were you doing at Tian Po Residence?

Tell us now!

Where is Yang Wu-Lang?!

Barbarians...!

If you're smart, you'll talk!

I don't know... any Yang Wu-Lang...

Still not talking?! You wanna die?!

We shouldn't stay here long.

- Take him back with us!
- Aye!

Where is Yang Wu-Lang?!

All of you tell me.

You're a bunch of flunkeys!

You couldn't even handle an old monk.

Just when will Great Song be mine?!

Very well! We'll break into
Tien-Po Residence now.

We'll see what Dowager She has hidden

that will reveal to us
Yang Wu-Lang's hiding place!

Wait...!

My Prince, I implore you
to not act brashly.

It is only a matter of time before all of
Great Song is in your, the prince's grasp.

A hasty break-in at Tien-Po Residence

will lead to unity amongst
the officials of the Imperial Court.

This will only be to our detriment.

Pan Mei, what is your esteemed advice?

Since the old monk appeared at
Tien-Po Residence,

there will surely be some kind
of movement tonight.

We simply have to follow this person...

Too easy.

Pa-Mei. Chiu-Mei.

These past few years we have fallen victim
to that viper Pan Mei's persecution.

No matter what,
we must find and bring Wu-Lang home.

Vindicate the Yang Family!

Mother, since my martial arts is so good,

why don't I bring Fifth Brother home?

Ninth Sister, Mother has her ways.
Don't interrupt!

Chiu-Mei, you are still wild and untamed.

The road to Mount Wutai
is long and difficult.

Moreover, Pan Mei has
eyes and ears everywhere.

If you were to go,
it will only end in ruin.

Butler Wang.

Here.

Make the necessary preparations,
and arrange for Pa-Mei's departure.

Understood, Madam Yang.

Chiu-Mei, you are responsible
for watching over Sixth Brother.

He mustn't set a single step
outside the Yang residence.

Yes, Mother.

Mother, Fifth Brother has
always very headstrong.

I'm afraid he'll...

Compel him with Dragon Head Cane's
jade pendant.

It is not his place to deny his family!

[TIEN-PO RESIDENCE]

Hey! Halt!

[YANG RESIDENCE]

Why's it stink?

Where are you going
at this time of night?!

- Sirs, we are taking out the rubbish.
- Taking out the rubbish?!

Wait...! Sirs, if we don't
get rid of the rubbish

all of Tien-Po Residence will smell!

I don't care if it stinks. Put it down!

Wait...!

Orders from the Father of the Empress:
Leave the Yang residence servants alone.

You can go. You can go.

Thank you, sirs. C'mon. C'mon. Let's go.

Hey...

There's nobody there. This way.

Hey, hurry up and put it down.

Mistress.

Bring the horse, quickly!

- It's a young man.
- Everyone split up and follow him!

Brother Wu-Lang, you can't go in.

Wu-Lang as already made pure his heart.

I urgently need to see
the master of the monastery tonight.

Brother Wu-Lang, if this is about
your spiritual practice,

- wait a few more days first.
- That's right. Wait a few more days.

Wait a few more days?

[A PURE HEART IS AS A MIRROR]

My brothers...

Why are you not practising
the Wolf Fang Staff?

Why are you all sitting in silence?

What are you all doing?

Where is the master of the monastery?

Brother...

The great master has passed on.

Did the great master lose his life
to wild wolves?!

Tell me! Talk!

He did not lose his life to wild wolves!

Abbot.

The master of the monastery...
How did he pass on?

Amitābha.

Junior Brother Chih-Hung always knew
while your body sought monkhood,

your heart did not seek Buddha.

This is why he spared no effort
and travelled to Tien-Po Residence.

To the Yang Family. So he...?!

He exerted such painstaking effort,

in the hopes you would restore
the prestige of the Yang Family.

Rejoice... Rejoice...

I never imagined that while on the road,
he would be assassinated.

Pan Mei, you viper!

Yang Wu-Lang, you should act in accordance
with Junior Brother Chih-Hung's wishes,

and descend the mountain.

Abbot...

"I did not kill Po Jen,

"But Po Jen died because of me."

I must fulfil the master
of the monastery's final wish!

Rejoice... Rejoice...

By doing so, you overestimate yourself.

The pole form Wu-Lang developed with
a pure heart is beyond adequate!

Wu-Lang, what fine pole form!

Thank you, abbot.

Patrons, take care. Take care.

Hey, someone's coming!

YUEN TAK as YANG FAMILY SOLDIER

[CHU AN INN]

Patron!

How about a rest?

You rat! You dare rob me
in broad daylight?!

Patron!

Patron!

Patron!

Patron, that jade pendant
on your belt is...?

Young waiter!

What about my jade pendant?!

It's--

Patron, how did you come by it?

You have no right to ask!

If you won't say, that means you stole it.

Nonsense!

- If it's not stolen, who gave it to you?
- It was...

- Who are you?
- I'm...

Tell me!

A gold blade?!

A Yang Family Gold Blade?

You are...?

- Help me...
- Stop!

- Where did you get this gold blade?!
- I don't know!

Tell me!

Golden Beach.

- You deserter!
- Who are you?!

The eighth in line!

Eighth Mistress!

After the battle, while safeguarding
General Yang Yeh's gold blade,

I was gravely wounded.

It was because of this innkeeper
that this former general could stay here.

I thank you, elder.

Such kind words.

The Yang Family are a clan of patriots.

The people of Great Song
have only admiration.

WANG CHING HO as INNKEEPER
- Mistress Yang.

In such chaotic times,

what important business have you
to come to the border alone?

I'm here to look for Fifth Brother.

- General Yang Wu-Lang is still with us?
- Yes.

There hasn't been any sign of him
in these parts though.

But an eminent monk from Mount Wutai
came to us as Tien-Po Residence.

According to his implications...

Fifth Brother might be at Mount Wutai.

Could General Yang
have entered into monkhood?

That is a possibility.

The Yang Family having suffered
such a blow,

all of Fifth Brother's hope
would have turned to dust.

This is why Mother conferred to me
the jade pendant of the Dragon Head.

To command him to return home
and testify against Pan Mei!

And restore the prestige
of the Yang Family!

Very well! We leave for
Mount Wutai immediately!

Big brother, a group of men
just barged in here!

Move it! Move! Move aside!
Over there!

Move aside!

Have every person in this inn brought out!

Aye!

- Pan Mei, you viper!
- Pan Mei has us outnumbered!

If we go now,
we won't make it to Mount Wutai.

- Out of the way...!
- Mistress Yang, you mustn't act brashly.

With how things are, I must
impede you for now.

Hsiao-Erh, hide Mistress Yang
beneath the kitchen stove.

- I will have a plan by nightfall.
- Right!

Move it!

- What is happening?
- Kneel!

Have you harboured the wanted criminal:
Yang Wu-Lang?

The wanted criminal Yang Wu-Lang?

No... No... I really haven't...!

No? We followed a young woman dressed
as a man here from Tien-Po Residence.

She must be meeting up with the criminal!

Definitely not!
I haven't seen such a person!

Innkeeper!

- Halt!
- They have no say in the matter...

- To me.
- Here!

- Burn this place down!
- Wait!

My Prince. Yang Wu-Lang may not be here,
but Yang Pa-Mei must be!

If we burn this place down,
the criminal will still elude us.

That will be a pointless exercise.

The two siblings will
meet here eventually.

My Prince. General Pan Mei is right.

We'll lock up all the guests.
No one is allowed to leave!

Very well.

Innkeeper!

No one is allowed to leave,
including your workers!

- Yes! Yes...
- Yes...

[GUESTS ARE LIKE COMING CLOUDS]

[CHU AN INN]
Where are you going?! Tell us!

Hsiao-San!

Why haven't you brought my supper up?

- Supper at this hour?
- Yeah!

Innkeeper!

Sirs, I have supper this late every night.

Let him go.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you, sirs.

Hsiao-San, hurry up with that!

Young waiter, what are you doing?

Sirs. I'm just tying up the coffin.

- Tying up the coffin at this hour?
- That's right, sir.

This corpse must be
delivered for burial before dawn.

- If not, it'll change.
- Change?

- Yeah, it'll change!
- No funny business!

- Hey! Get out here and carry the coffin!
- Right!

Stop right there!

Open it up!

- Open it now!
- I can't! I can't--

Why not?! Open it!

I really can't open it.
It'll stink if I do!

Open it!

Sir, I told you it would stink!

- Close the lid! Close the lid!
- Right!

What is this?

Goods buried with the dead, sir.

- Sir...!
- A gold blade...?

Yang Family--

Yang Pa-Mei, you won't get away!

Hsiao-Ssu!

Yang Pa-Mei, just where is it
you are going?!

I don't let traitors talk to me!

You must be meeting with Yang Wu-Lang!

If you're smart, you'll tell us now!
I can even let you live.

If not, I will hang you until you bleed
from all seven orifices!

Go!

Stop!

No need to give chase!

General Pan, he...!

My Prince, Yeh Lu-Lien.

Let him go, and before the sun
has even risen, Yang Wu-Lang will be here!

- Very well. Men!
- Here!

- Have Yang Pa-Mei locked up!
- Aye!

[PRAJÑĀ GATE]

Yang Wu-Lang...!

- Wu... Lang...
- What is it?

There's someone there!

- Why is he covered in blood?
- What happened to him?

Wu-Lang...

Benefactor.

Wu-Lang...

Want... Yang Wu-Lang...

Wu-Lang...

Wu-Lang...!

Yang Wu... Lang...

What happened?

Abbot, this benefactor is the young waiter
from the inn at the foot of the mountain.

He said he needs to find Yang Wu-Lang.

Wu-Lang...

Wu-Lang...

Benefactor. The humble monk
before you is Yang Wu-Lang.

You and I have never
crossed paths before.

The Dragon Head Cane...?

Yang... Pa... Mei...

Eighth Sister?

She...

She was... ambushed... at the inn...

- Wu-Lang!
- Rejoice... Rejoice...

Amitābha.

Abbot, I must descend the mountain!

Amitābha.

Though Pa-Mei has
the body of a young woman,

her body is also one fit for war.

The chaos of war and worldly affairs:
Of what concern are they to Buddha?

The Buddha grips the Vajra
to subdue wickedness.

As does the disciple, Yang Wu-Lang.

You entered into monkhood,
there is no returning home!

Head raised, the light of Buddha
shines down.

Head lowered, the thoughts
of family rise up.

You forsake your vows
in the face of Buddha himself?!

Abbot!

The Wolf Fang Staff does not discriminate!

I won't hold back, then!

What fine pole form.

[CHU AN INN]

Monk, you carted all this bamboo here
so early in the morning

Are you here to rest,
or here to ask for directions?

Of the two, none apply.

This humble monk has come
to deliver these bamboo poles.

What bamboo poles?

Each and every one
of these bamboo poles...

are honest and unyielding.

You can break one.

But you cannot break them all!

Monk, where did you come from?!

Mount Wutai!

Mount Wutai monk, you must be
connected with those named Yang!

You despicable barbarians!

- Seize him!
- Seize him!

Charge...!

[CHU AN INN]

Yang Wu-Lang, even though you have
become a monk, you must still die!

For a monk, life and death are irrelevant.

Where is my sister?!

The Yang Pa-Mei you are looking for
lies beneath my feet!

Pa-Mei...!

Pan Mei, I will have you pay
for your sins in blood!

Yang Wu-Lang, even if you grow wings,
you will not fly away!

Kill!

Eighth Sister!

Eighth Sister, you...!

Big Brother...

Fifth Brother!

- Return to Tien Po Residence...!
- Little Sister...

Don't worry about me! Hurry up and go!

I can't!

- Eighth Sister!
- Fifth Brother...!

Big Brother...!

Abbot...!

Attack!

Unbind Yang Wu-Lang!

Thank you, great master!

Abbot, you're breaking your vows!

No! We're only chasing away wild wolves!

Wu-Lang! Avenge the kingdom!

Brothers, batter these wild wolves hard!

Traitor...!

You traitorous viper...!

Amitābha.

- Yang Pa-Mei.
- Big Brother!

Take his body to the Imperial Court
and condemn him!

Big Brother, don't go back to Mount Wutai!

He will not return there.

Wait for me...!

Big Brother...!

Big Brother...!

Yang Pa-Mei...

The world is my home.

Big Brother...!

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