Shaw Brothers also revolutionized the martial arts genre. Chang Cheh's One-Armed Swordsman, which starred Jimmy Wang Yu, was the first film to gross HK $ 1 million, and it also scored big in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. In the 1970s, director Chu Yuan stirred up a wave for martial arts films with a string of blockbusters.
除了梁祝掀起黃梅調熱潮外，邵氏出品的武俠片也轟動萬教，例如張徹導演的武俠片及日後的功夫片，在影壇造成很大的影響，由王羽主演的《獨臂刀》是香港第一部票房破百萬港幣的影片，在台灣及東南亞也有很高的票房紀錄。