After relocating in Taiwan (having lost the legal sue with his former producer Run Run Shaw in Hong Kong), former action no. 1 superstar at Asian B.O. Jimmy Wang Yu starred (and sometime directed too) in a series of low-budget actioners both Wushapian (Swordplay movies) and Gongfupian (bare-hands combat movies). This is one of the most original: here he plays 3 different characters in 3 different epochs. Episode 1, THE STRANGER (modern setting): A woman escapes from the brutal boss (acttor Yi Yuan) of the night club she sings in; Wang Yu tries to protect her, eventually fighting and defeating the boss and his entire gang inside the club, but he's heavily wounded. As the girl helps him to leave the place, they're both shoot to death; Episode 2, THE PRODIGAL SON (China late '800) Wang Yu lives as an hermit after he caused the death of his wealthy parents, that's why he buried the cursed family treasure. His sister brings some food to him but the man refuses to back to a normal life and stays on atonement. A group of tartar outlaws arrives at the place in order to steal the family treasure, the sister dies falling into a pit and her hermit brother takes revenge killing the Tartars one by one, eventually dyng himself; episode 3, THE REVENGER (China around 1930) Wang Yu is an ex-conman back with a vengeance against his brother, who stole the money and Yu's woman. He takes revenge but dies in the end. Relased in Hong Kong 9/7/72 The Gallant is not a masterpiece but a curious anthology where the stories are bounded by the same theme: the stoic sacrifice of life to take a vengeance or a redemption, exactly the meaning of Gallant in the martial arts world. The cast includes the usual actors and stuntmen you could see in just every taiwanese actioners of that Era: Yi Yuan, Paul Chan Chung, Wang Yuen Sheng, Lung Fei, Shan Mao, Tsai Hung, Wu Tong Chiao and countless others. Martial arts coreographer Chaang Yi Kwai.