Changing times in Hong Kong created changing movie hero attitudes. Talented director Chu Yuan presents famed lone, wandering swordsman actor Ti Lung not as solitude, emotionless, tragic hero but as new wave virtuous champion that loves his girlfriend played by the luscious Ching Li. Another change in the Bruce Lee's Enter The Dragon influenced Roving Swordsman, is that a villainous swordswoman is trying to take over the martial underworld.