| The Sword | |
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| Traditional Chinese | 名劍 |
| Simplified Chinese | 名剑 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Míng Jiàn |
| Jyutping | Ming4 Gim3 |
| Directed by | Patrick Tam |
| Screenplay by | Lau Shing-hon Clifford Choi Wong Ying Patrick Tam Lo Chi-keung Lau Tin-chi |
| Story by | Wong Ying |
| Produced by | Raymond Chow |
| Starring | Adam Cheng Norman Chu JoJo Chan Tien Feng Bonnie Ngai Eddy Ko Lee Hoi-sang |
| Cinematography | Bill Wong |
| Edited by | Peter Cheung |
| Music by | Joseph Koo |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Golden Harvest |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | HK$2,646,769 |
The Sword is a 1980 Hong Kong wuxia film co-written and directed by Patrick Tam and starring Adam Cheng.[1]
- ^ Sabrina Qiong Yu - Jet Li: Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom 0748645489 2012 "Two pioneers of the Hong Kong New Wave, Tsui Hark and Patrick Tam, chose to start their directorial careers with wuxia films – The Butterfly Murders (Tsui Hark, 1979) and The Sword (Patrick Tam, 1980) –"