What is your favorite indie wuxia movie from the classic era?

[thegoldenstate]

Meaning, swordplay, as opposed to KF... think Chor Yuen, but not Shaw Bros

[Morgoth Bauglir]

SB does have a lot of the best ones like Bastard Swordsman and Secret Service of the Imperial Court. The Sword from Golden Harvest is my favorite. But outside of those 2 companies my pick is The Sword of Justice, edging out The Master and the Kid and Miraculous Flower.

[NoKUNGFUforYU]

Black Tavern. Hands down for me. Got me interested in watching Wu Xia again.

[NoKUNGFUforYU]

Sorry! Deaf Mute is up there. Wrath of the Sword. We can't really consider Union films indie, but if you did, Ghost Hill.

[Morgoth Bauglir]

I don't think I've ever seen anything from Union. Cathay is the only other major film company I can think of that did swordplays. Are there any others? Other than the ones made in the 50's and 60's?

I haven't seen the 3 movies you mentioned. Well, I've seen Deat Mute, but it was so long ago all I remember is that it had bad picture quality.

[GOLDEN DRAGON YIN-YANG]

Too many to count.

GD Y-Y

[NoKUNGFUforYU]

Rider of Revenge, A GIRL Fighter, swordsman of all swordsman, the Mad Killer, the evil karate. I got my copies from Bigrogie.

[the moose]

Some I really enjoyed: A touch of Zen, the fate of Lee Khan, Beach of the war gods, Everlasting chivalry.

EDIT

I just realized Beach of the war gods and The Fate of Lee Khan are Golden Harvest so can't be considered "Indie" as such.

[Yang Wu Liang]

As GDYY says there are too many, here's a few of my favourites though....

Victim of an Assassin

Butterfly Murders

Elimination Pursuit

King of Kings

Love and Sword

Strife for Mastery

Flute Player of Wrath

Middle Kingdoms Mark of Blood

Sword of Justice

Jade Dagger Ninja

Veiling of Hidden Sword

Matching Escort

EDIT: As Iron Flag has just pointed out the OP has asked for our favourite so I'll say....

For action: Veiling of Hidden Sword

Overall:

Love and Sword (very atmospheric)

or

Matching Escort (For pure wackiness)

[stills]

What was The Sword?

Golden harvest?

[thekfc]

As previously stated there are too many to mention but since the OP did not exclude GH (only Shaws), I would throw in "Last Hurrah for Chivalry" & "Duel To the Death".

[iron flag]

The question is what is your favorite movie so while it may be too hard to pick one, "too many to mention" wouldn't really be an answer there are a lot I havent seen but I'll go with Strife for Mastery.

[NoKUNGFUforYU]

I really can't call Golden Harvest "indie" at all. There output looked a little cheap once the Bruce Lee money dipped, but they were and always have been a major studio. Shanghai Killers and Thunderbolt were two decent early GH efforts. Tien Peng is probably the indie champ, as well as Chiang Nan and Peter Kong. Anyway, so many movies, so little time.

[thankyouforfu]

As GDYY says there are too many, here's a few of my favourites though....

Victim of an Assassin

Butterfly Murders

Elimination Pursuit

King of Kings

Love and Sword

Strife for Mastery

Flute Player of Wrath

Middle Kingdoms Mark of Blood

Sword of Justice

Jade Dagger Ninja

Veiling of Hidden Sword

Matching Escort

Veiling of Hidden Sword

Love and Sword (very atmospheric)

Matching Escort (For pure wackiness)

Man, some great films in that list, as well as some that I need to buy...