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The Sword
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Directed byPatrick Tam
Screenplay byLau Shing-hon
Clifford Choi
Wong Ying
Patrick Tam
Lo Chi-keung
Lau Tin-chi
Story byWong Ying
Produced byRaymond Chow
StarringAdam Cheng
Norman Chu
JoJo Chan
Tien Feng
Bonnie Ngai
Eddy Ko
Lee Hoi-sang
CinematographyBill Wong
Edited byPeter Cheung
Music byJoseph Koo
Production
company
Distributed byGolden Harvest
Release date
14 August 1980 (1980-08-14)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$2,646,769

The Sword is a 1980 Hong Kong wuxia film co-written and directed by Patrick Tam and starring Adam Cheng.[1]

Plot summary

A swordsman wants to fight an evil man; but the swordsman throws his sword into the sea after fighting because he wants to live in peace. The film is set in the ancient city of the Song dynasty. It was filmed in a provincial town of China Shandong province (where Confucius was born)

Cast

  • Adam Cheng as Lee Mak-yin
  • Norman Chu as Lin Wan
  • JoJo Chan as Yin Siu-yu
  • Tien Feng as Fa Chin-shu
  • Bonnie Ngai as Yuen Kei
  • Eddy Ko as Chan Tit-yee
  • Hoi Sang Lee as Chou Huan
  • Ng Tung as Wang Shi-qi
  • Lau Yat-fan as Old pigeon man
  • Lau Siu-ming as Caretaker
  • Chui Kit as Fa Ying-chi

References

  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) –"