Director: Lin Zhenzhao
Cast: Zhao Huawei, Wang Zijun, Chen Zihan, Xing Yu, Bruce Leung Siu-Lung
The Legend of Condor Hero: What is Love is a 2025 Chinese action-adventure fantasy film directed by Lin Zhenzhao, based on one of the most beloved wuxia stories in East Asian popular culture. Running 90 minutes, this martial-arts epic follows an orphaned young warrior and a reclusive swordswoman as they navigate the turbulent rivers-and-lakes world of ancient China.
What is The Legend of Condor Hero What is Love about?
Young Yang Guo has spent his entire childhood as an outcast — moving from one place to another without roots or belonging. He becomes a student under the legendary Guo Jing, but the strict hierarchy of the Quanzhen Sect treats him harshly because of his uncertain origins. Frustrated, he abandons that path and instead seeks a different master: the solitary and formidable Xiao Longnv, a woman who trains in near-total isolation. As Yang Guo's skills grow under her guidance, the wider martial world erupts around them — the powerful King Jinlun wants to claim forbidden combat techniques and strategic war maps, while the vengeful rogue practitioner Li Mochou leaves chaos in her wake. Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv are pulled into these escalating conflicts, and through shared hardship their relationship transforms from master-student into something far deeper and more complicated.
Cast & crew
The film stars Zhao Huawei as the determined Yang Guo and Wang Zijun as the enigmatic Xiao Longnv. Chen Zihan and Xing Yu round out the core cast, joined by veteran Hong Kong action cinema figures Bruce Leung Siu-Lung and Waise Lee Chi-Hung, whose presence connects the film to classic wuxia tradition. Mei Fu and Gallen Lo Ka-Leung complete the ensemble. Director Lin Zhenzhao brings a background in large-scale Chinese fantasy productions to this adaptation.
Context & significance
The Legend of the Condor Heroes is one of the most iconic wuxia novel series in Chinese literature, written by Jin Yong and beloved across all of East and Southeast Asia for decades. Persian-speaking audiences — many of whom grew up watching dubbed Chinese martial-arts serials on Iranian television — will find this story immediately familiar in spirit: the lone orphan who must carve his own path, the impossible love that defies social convention, and the clash between loyalty and individual freedom. This 2025 cinematic retelling arrives with a full Persian dub, making it fully accessible without subtitles, and distills its emotional core into a tight 90-minute format. It is available on K-Time for diaspora viewers who want quality Asian action cinema without any geographic restrictions.
Where & how to watch
The Legend of Condor Hero: What is Love is available on K-Time with a full Persian dub as well as Persian subtitles. Watch on your browser, TV, or phone — no VPN, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Subscribe and cancel anytime.