Seven Swords

Seven Swords
Theatrical poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese七劍
Simplified Chinese七剑
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinQī Jiàn
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingCat1 Gim3
Directed byTsui Hark
Screenplay byTsui Hark
Cheung Chi-sing
Chun Tin-nam
Based onQijian Xia Tianshan
by Liang Yusheng
Produced byTsui Hark
Ma Zhongjun
Lee Joo-ick
Pan Zhizhong
StarringDonnie Yen
Leon Lai
Charlie Yeung
Sun Honglei
Lu Yi
Kim So-yeon
CinematographyKeung Kwok-man
Herman Yau
Choi Shung-fai
Edited byAngie Lam
Music byKenji Kawai
Production
companies
Beijing Ciwen Digital Oriental Film & TV Production
Film Workshop
Boram Entertainment
Fortissimo Films
Distributed byMandarin Films Distribution Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong)
China Film Group (China)
Tube Entertainment (South Korea)
A-Film Distribution (Netherlands)
Release date
  • 29 July 2005 (2005-07-29)
Running time
153 minutes
CountriesHong Kong
China
South Korea
Netherlands
LanguagesCantonese
Mandarin
Korean
BudgetUS$18 million[1]
Box officeUS$3,473,290[2]

Seven Swords is a 2005 wuxia film produced and directed by Tsui Hark, starring Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung, Sun Honglei, Lu Yi and Kim So-yeon. An international co-production between Hong Kong, China, South Korea and the Netherlands, the story is loosely adapted from Liang Yusheng's novel Qijian Xia Tianshan and is completely unrelated to the novel except for some characters' names. Seven Swords was used as the opening film to the 2005 Venice Film Festival and as a homage to Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai.

  1. ^ "The Seven Swords Press Conference on Aug 29, 2004 - wu-jing.org". Archived from the original on 21 March 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Seven Swords (Chat gim) - Box Office Mojo".