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The Blade

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Driven by revenge, a one-armed swordsman (Wing Zhao) with a sawed-off blade and a martial arts manual pursues villains.

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Jake Cole Slant Magazine Mar 24
Tsui Hark’s The Blade isn’t so much a revisionist take on a Shaw Brothers wuxia as a distillation of the critiques embedded in the genre’s most popular classics. Go to Full Review
Douglas Davidson Elements of Madness 2d
It doesn’t diminish those that came before and certainly not those that have released since, but it does inspire audiences to re-evaluate the way in which wuxia tales create confinement in their reinterpretation ... Go to Full Review
Ed Travis Cinapse Mar 12
Damn does [Tsui] Hark seem to have something to say here, and he says it loud with every frame. Go to Full Review
Howard Waldstein CBR 07/18/2023
After his literal descent into a hellish landscape, Ding-on convalesces and hones a deadly, Tasmanian Devil-like technique. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 07/01/2005
3/5
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Chris Feb 24 One of Tsui Hark’s best & probably his darkest See more A M @RT22928350 Aug 11 Please release this in 4k blu ray A MASTERPIECE See more Leprechaun K @LeprechaunKing 02/24/2025 An absolute masterpiece by Hark. It is not nearly popular enough. Some of the most stylistically choreographed martial art sequences ever. Enjoyable from beginning to end. See more 04/29/2016 Some great action sequences but have to wait for it. The sword fights in the latter part are real good. Overall good fun though the beginning can be a bit slow and melodramatic See more 02/25/2016 The film has a fast pace in part due to its quick edits and cuts throughout. Worthy, but has a style that has to be tolerated. See more 10/04/2015 Tsui Hark's re-imagining of One Armed Swordsman that itself was an unofficial adaptation of a tiny bit of Louis Cha's second Condor Heroes novel. This one done either as a parody or maybe an acknowledgement of Wong Kar Wai (Ashes Of Time). It does become its own thing, and is unlike anything Tsui had done, before or since. It meanders a bit, but I like it much more now than I did about twenty years ago. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Driven by revenge, a one-armed swordsman (Wing Zhao) with a sawed-off blade and a martial arts manual pursues villains.
Director
Hark Tsui
Producer
Raymond Chow Man-Wai
Genre
Action
Original Language
Chinese
Runtime
1h 45m