Original title: 刀
Year: 1995
Country: Hong Kong
Region code: 4K UHD: A/B/C; Blu-ray: A
Content: 4K UHD + Blu-ray
EAN: 715515331913
Image: 1.85:1 (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision / HDR10
Audio: Cantonese - Uncompressed Mono
Subtitles: English
Age rating: Not Rated
Genre: Action
Cast: Vincent Zhao, Xiong Xin-xin
Director: Tsui Hark
Synopsis:
Among the boldest achievements of Hong Kong cinema's golden age, this uniquely visceral martial-arts movie puts a gritty new spin on the story of the one-armed swordsman, an iconic figure from the moment he was introduced by the Shaw Brothers studio in 1967. Composed in a whirlwind of immersive close-ups and fractured editing, The Blade follows the young sword-maker Ding On (Vincent Zhao), who, after losing an arm in an ambush, transforms himself into a furious avenger. With its intentionally disorienting stylization and starkly brutal tone, The Blade was a rare commercial disappointment for Tsui Hark, but it has since been reclaimed as one of the director's most radical visions—a tour de force of action expressionism, and a scathing reappraisal of the wuxia genre's code of masculinity, that achieves a feverish intensity.
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