THE EIGHT DIAGRAM POLE FIGHTER (1983)

By the 80's the Shaw Brothers recipe of classic, grand-scale, epic kung-fu masterpieces was all set. This one follows that recipe well. You get amazing-looking sets, back-stabbing traitors and murderous tragedies on a large scale and lots of fighting to go around. You also get Alexander Fu-Sheng playing a nutjob which was slightly different but the main draw of this movie for me is the awesome beginning battle scene and the amazing climactic one. Both are full of bloody impaled bodies, arrows flying and all sorts of crazy mayhem that makes this movie worthwhile if you're into the chopsocky action genre at all. AKA THE INVINCIBLE POLE FIGHTERS

 You also have the great Gordon Liu from the classic MASTER KILLER as our main hero character who gets involved in some of that old-timey Shaolin Buddhist-fu: