'Portrait of the Loyal Martyrs'[3]) is a 1975 Taiwan and Hong Kong wuxia film written and directed by King Hu.

The film portrays a Ming-era conflict between Chinese officials and Japanese pirates mediated by a husband-and-wife martial arts duo.

[6] Facing threats from Japanese pirates along China's southern coast, Chinese Ming dynasty officials recruit a husband-and-wife martial arts duo to fight their adversaries.

He compares the film's general set-up to Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven but points out that The Valiant Ones includes real historical figures which adds a note of authenticity.

[11] Derek Elley writes that "The Valiant Ones... is replete with the expected ebb and flow of artifice, suspicion and sylvan sussuration-- Hu [has the] masterly skill at evoking a sense of dislocated reality, the pregnant calm which signals imminent danger... Hu shows his perennial concern for the ruthlessly rigid pecking-order of power structures--expressed, as always, through skill in the martial arts".