Synopsis

Rival bounty-hunting families compete to capture the notorious thief Nine-Tails Fox and his partner, Flying Cat, after the pair steals from the emperor. Their rivalry gives way to an uneasy alliance as the hunters pursue the fugitives through a series of comic misunderstandings, exaggerated martial-arts battles, disguises, and supernatural complications.

Factoids & Trivia

• The film is a 1993 Hong Kong wuxia comedy with an approximately 86-minute runtime and Cantonese dialogue.

• Its Chinese title, "Shen Jing Dao Yu Fei Tian Mao," is commonly rendered in English as "Flying Dagger." It was also released under the alternate Chinese title "Jiu Wei Hu Yu Fei Tian Mao."

• The action choreography was handled by Ching Siu-tung, whose work helped give the comedy its deliberately extravagant wire-fu battles and gravity-defying movement.

• The screenplay was written by Wong Jing, and the film uses broad parody and genre exaggeration rather than treating its martial-arts world as straight historical adventure.

• Outtakes are shown during the closing credits, extending the film's comic tone beyond the main story.

• An edited English-dubbed version was distributed in the United States in 1995 by Youngtze Film & Video. Its VHS packaging used the title "The Flying Daggers."