The Blade (film)

The Blade
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDāo
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingDou1
Directed byTsui Hark
Written byKoan Hui
Tsui Hark
So Man-Sing
Produced byTsui Hark
Raymond Chow
StarringVincent Zhao
Moses Chan
Hung Yan-yan
Song Lei
Austin Wai
Chung Bik-ha
Valerie Chow
CinematographyVenus Keung
Edited byTsui Hark
Kam Ma
Music byRaymond Wong
William Hu
Production
companies
Film Workshop
Paragon Films
Distributed byGolden Harvest
Release date
  • 21 December 1995 (1995-12-21)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$3,308,775 (Hong Kong)[1]

The Blade is a 1995 Hong Kong martial arts film co-written, produced and directed by Tsui Hark, starring Vincent Zhao, Moses Chan, Hung Yan-yan, Song Lei, Austin Wai, Chung Bik-ha and Valerie Chow. This film is notable for its unusual style, which includes dramatic close-ups, employment of colour gels, and frenetic camera use during the fight sequences.

  1. ^ "The Blade (1995)". Hong Kong Movie Database. Retrieved 28 May 2013.