Adapted from a martial arts novel by Ko Lung, Killer Clans was a box-office hit that sparked a martial arts craze in Hong Kong and Taiwan. That was indeed a golden era for Chinese film. The Shaw Brothers blockbusters lifted the whole Taiwan film industry, and the numbers of people watching Chinese-language films grew steadily year after year.
改自古龍武俠小說的《流星蝴蝶劍》賣座後，港台更掀起一片武俠風潮，那也是國片最風光的年代，當時邵氏在台創造的豐碩成果，使整個台灣影業也跟著振奮起來，看國片的人口一年比一年多。