First part of a three-part film series about the orphan girl Sha Yan. Inthis first part she is fourteen and attending lessons at a convent intraditional Chinese martial arts - with eighteen fellow pupils; she istherefore also known by here master as the Nineteenth Sister. Everyone treatsher as a little sister. But when she has completed her course, her mastersends her back to her derelict and deserted home - she is after all an orphan.Her guardian is waiting for her and tells her how the mean bandit Lu hasmurdered her parents and the rest of her family. Sha swears to avenge theirdeaths.
- Country of production
- Taiwan
- Year
- 1959
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 1995
- Length
- 82'
- Medium
- 16mm
- International title
- 19 Heroes of the Green Mountain
- Language
- Mandarin
- Producer
- Tong Yue-juan
- Screenplay
- Du Guang-nu
- Cast
- Tang Di