Seven Swords (simplified Chinese: 七剑; traditional Chinese: 七劍; pinyin: Qī jiàn) is a 2005 Hong Kong film directed by Tsui Hark and adapted from the novel Seven Swords of Mount Heaven (七劍下天山) by renowned Wuxia writer Liang Yusheng.
The movie was the opening film to the 2005 Venice Film Festival and is a homage movie to Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954).
In the mid-1600s, the Manchurians have taken over sovereignty of China and established the ...
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Seven Swords (simplified Chinese: 七剑; traditional Chinese: 七劍; pinyin: Qī jiàn) is a 2005 Hong Kong film directed by Tsui Hark and adapted from the novel Seven Swords of Mount Heaven (七劍下天山) by renowned Wuxia writer Liang Yusheng.
The movie was the opening film to the 2005 Venice Film Festival and is a homage movie to Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954).
In the mid-1600s, the Manchurians have taken over sovereignty of China and established the Qing Dynasty. While nationalistic sentiments start brewing within the martial artists' community (Jianghu), the Qing government immediately imposes a "Martial Arts Ban" (禁武令), forbidding the common people to practice martial arts. This is a means of maintaining law and order, as well as provide the Qing government with sufficient reason to put down any potential rebellion by nationalist martial artists. Fire-Wind, a military officer who formerly served the fallen Ming Dynasty, sees the new law as an opportunity for himself to make fortune by...
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