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A sword-maker takes in the son (Chiu Cheuk) of a murdered friend, and teaches him his craft. When the boy attempts to rescue her his arm is hacked off. Original Genuine UK Release. Release date : 14 April 2000.
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A master sword-maker adopts the son of a murdered friend and teaches him the master's craft. Cantonese dialogue.
Product Identifiers
EAN5024571010218
eBay Product ID (ePID)3945084
Product Key Features
ActorChiu Cheuk, Song Nei, Xin Xin Xiong
Film/TV TitleThe Blade
DirectorTsui Hark
LanguageCantonese
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
Run Time100 Mins
Aspect RatioWide Screen
Release Year2000
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen, Interactive Menus\Scene Selection\Original Theatrical Trailer\Digitally Remastered, With Subtitles
GenreGeneral, Action & Adventure
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate18
Additional InformationBased on THE ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (1967), which is widely regarded as launching the craze for swordfighting movies in Hong Kong, BLADE is a violent epic employing fast edits and a dynamic camera, instead of the panoramic shots of the original. With half a name, half a sword, and half of a martial arts textbook, a martial arts protege with one arm transforms himself into a whirling dervish of a swordsman--more an anarchic force, rather than the graceful flying swordsmen of Hark's martial arts fantasies. An atmosphere of suffocation, repressed eroticism, and abject suffering dominates the film, which culminates in a climactic battle that martial arts cineastes will enjoy. There is very little that is heroic about the film; more often than not, people with good intentions are brutally slaughtered, while those who prey on the weak seem to constitute an endless horde. The bleakness of the film recalls the mood of A BETTER TOMORROW, which Hark produced. Like ASHES OF TIME, which was released just one year before Hark's film, THE BLADE verges on the philosophical, with an untrustworthy narrator who is not quite sure what is happening around her.