Impoverished teahouse worker (and martial-arts student) Abao is engaged to his boss' daughter, Little Chu, and fights to protect her from the lecherous advances of the wealthy but repulsive Master Shi. The two men's romantic rivalry escalates into full-scale supernatural warfare after Shi enlists the aid of a wicked sorcerer, and Abao encounters a benevolent female ghost.
Two dogs are beheaded in battle. When you see the four dogs towards the end of the movie, when they engage in battle, two of them are dispatched with swords. It's relatively not too graphic, but you do see it happen.