Seven Swords (2005) - Video Detective

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Seven Swords is a 2005 Hong Kong wuxia film produced and directed by Tsui Hark, starring Leon Lai, Donnie Yen, Charlie Yeung, Sun Honglei, Lu Yi and Kim So-yeon. 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.

Original Release

07/25/2005

Cast

Name	Character

Donnie Yen	Chu Zhaonan
Honglei Sun	General Fire-Wind
Leon Lai	Yang Yuncong (as Ming Li)
Charlie Young	Wu Yuanying
Chia-Liang Liu	Fu Qingzhu
Michael Wong	Prince Dokado (as Man-Tak Wong)
Jason Piao Pai	Liu Jingyi (as Piao Pai)
Duncan Lai	Mu Lang (as Kwan-Tat Chow)
Li-Wu Tai	Xin Longzi
Kuan-Chun Chi	Qiu Dongluo

(see additional cast & crew)

Directors

Hark Tsui

Writers

Chi-Sing Cheung, Tin Nam Chun, Yusheng Liang, Hark Tsui

Cast

Name	Character

Donnie Yen	Chu Zhaonan
Honglei Sun	General Fire-Wind
Leon Lai	Yang Yuncong (as Ming Li)
Charlie Young	Wu Yuanying
Chia-Liang Liu	Fu Qingzhu
Michael Wong	Prince Dokado (as Man-Tak Wong)
Jason Piao Pai	Liu Jingyi (as Piao Pai)
Duncan Lai	Mu Lang (as Kwan-Tat Chow)
Li-Wu Tai	Xin Longzi
Kuan-Chun Chi	Qiu Dongluo
Peng Huang	Guan Sandao
Haitao Li	Twelve Guardians (Si Yilang)
Jingwu Ma	Master Shadow Glow
Ming Zhe Liu	Twelve Guardians (Jiao Ci)
Chi Man Wong	Twelve Guardians (Shan Zhi)
Tengfei Tang	Twelve Guardians (Shi Shou)
Gu Kun	Twelve Guardians (Bang Muzi) (as Kun Gu)
Hai-Bin Lin	Twelve Guardians (San Gen)
Feng-Qiang Guo	Twelve Guardians (Hei Jiu)
Zhang Jie	Twelve Guardians (Mao Lang) (as Jie Zhang)

Producers

Name	Role

Bong-Chui Hong	Executive Producer
Zhizhong Pan	Executive Producer
Raymond Bak-Ming Wong	Executive Producer
Nansun Shi	Executive Producer
Yong Zhang	Executive Producer
Lee Joo-Ick	Producer
Zhong-Jun Ma	Producer
Nansun Shi	Producer
Cheng Yu	Producer
Hark Tsui	Producer
Chi-Sing Cheung	Producer
Sung Goh	Producer
Zhizhong Pan	Producer
Ming-Yat Woo	Producer
Kam Yung-Tak	Producer