The Night Orchid

Director: Chang Peng-yi

1983 / 93min / DCP

“A star-studded hothouse flower, based on a zeitgeist-changing hit TV series, written by the great wuxia novelist Gu Long himself, with Brigitte Lin, one of Taiwan’s biggest actresses who was soon to find fame in Hong Kong movies, starring alongside Adam Cheng, a major Hong Kong pop star and actor. Cheng’s Chu Liu-xiang is a hard-drinking, fun-loving Robin Hood who refuses to kill his enemies and has a knack for the ladies. Night Orchid moves a mile a minute, as characters come and go with alarming frequency, the whole thing culminating in a booby-trapped temple of wildly outlandish doom.”—Subway Cinema