Qi jian

In the early 1600's, the Manchurians have taken over sovereignty of China and established the Ching Dynasty. While many nationalist revolts still brew within the martial artists' community, the newly set-up government immediately imposes a Martial Arts Ban, forbidding the practice of martial arts altogether in order to gain control and order. Wind Fire (Sun Hong-Lei), a surrendered military official from the previous dynasty, sees this as an opportunity to make a fortune for himself by helping to execute the new law. Greedy, cruel, and immoral, Wind Fire ravages the North-western China, and his next goal is to attack the final frontier, Martial Village. Fu Qingzhu, a retired executioner from the previous dynasty, feels the need to put a stop to this brutality and sets out to save Bowei Fortress. He brings Wu Yuanyin and Han Zhiban from the village with him to Mount Heaven to seek help from Master Shadow-Glow, a hermit who is a master of swords and leads a group of disciples of great swordsmanship. Master Shadow-Glow agrees to help, and orders four of his best disciples to go. Together with Chu Zhaonan, Yang Yunchong, Mulong, and Xin Longzi, the SEVEN SWORDS is formed and their heroic journey begins. As they lead the entire village to the road of a safer place, they begin to encounter mysterious confusion. Food and water is poisoned, and trails of escape are marked with signs leading the enemy to them. They soon realize that there is an undercover spy, and the SEVEN SWORDS must identify him/her before Wind Fire's army gets to them. Between this narrow gap of life and death, the situation is further complicated by the blossoms of love.

Genre(s) : Action,Adventure,Fantasy

Aka(s) :
(original title) - Qi jian
Argentina - Siete espadas
Brazil - Sete Espadas
Bulgaria - Седемте меча(Bulgarian)
Canada - Seven Swords
Canada - Sept guerriers

China - 七剑
Czech Republic - Sedm Mečů
Finland - Seitsemän miekkaa
France - Seven Swords
Germany - Die sieben Schwerter
Greece - 7 σπαθιά
Hong Kong - 七劍
Hong Kong - Seven Swords of Mt. Tien - Part I
Hong Kong - Seven Swordsmen Leave Mt. Heaven
Hungary - A hét kard legendája
Italy - Seven Swords
Japan - セブンソード
Lithuania - Septyni kardai
Norway - Syv sverd
Poland - Siedem mieczy
Portugal - Sete Espadas
Romania - Șapte săbii
Russia - Семь мечей
Slovakia - Sedem Mečov
Spain - Siete espadas
Spain - Set espases
Taiwan - 七劍
United Kingdom - Seven Swords
United States - Seven Swords
Vietnam - Thất Kiếm
World-wide - Seven Swords

Actors :
Leon Lai Yang Yuncong (as Ming Li)
Donnie Yen Chu Zhaonan
Charlie Yeung Wu Yuanying
Honglei Sun General Fire-Wind
Yi Lu Han Zhibang
Kim So-yeon Green Pearl
Chia-Liang Liu Fu Qingzhu
Jingchu Zhang Liu Yufang
Li-Wu Tai Xin Longzi
Duncan Lai Mu Lang (as Kwan-Tat Chow)
Jason Piao Pai Liu Jingyi (as Piao Pai)
Kuan-Chun Chi Qiu Dongluo
Peng Huang Guan Sandao
Haitao Li Twelve Guardians (Si Yilang)
Jingwu Ma Master Shadow Glow
Michael Wong Prince Dokado (as Man-Tak Wong)
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)
Zhen-Bao Liu Twelve Guardians (Tu Xing)
Xie Zhang Twelve Guardians (Tu Shi) (as Zhang Xie)
Jiajia Chen Twelve Guardians (Kualo)
Guang-Jin Jiang Twelve Guardians (San Zi)
Bing Bo Elder Xian Ye
Shang-Lei Yang Da Hai
Chang-Cheng Deng Da Peng
Bai-Ling Yao Chang Yu
Gui-Jun Zhang Xiao Si
Chang-Hung Li Xiao Zheng
Xi-Bin Jie Ping An
Zan-Hua Yao Elder Hao Ge
Zeng-Bin Bai Sun Lao Tou
Chao Zhang Zhang Huazhao
Ruan Tang Xiao Pi (as Tang Ruan)
Ji-Dong Du Xiong Miao
Meng-Zhu Sui Zhu Zhu
Du-Shuai Chen Warrior
Lan-Ji Chen Warrior
Lanji Chen
Fei Gao
Zhi-Yang Gao Acrobat
Ming Hu Scholar
Ke-Yu Jiang Warrior
Qing-Zeng Ma Warrior
Li-Ming Tuo Lan Xiuji
Wen-Su Wang
Wenjie Wang Duke's young attendant
Lixiao Yang Girl in pool of blood
Michelle Yim Luzhu (voice)
Yang Zhang Acrobat
Hao Zhou Acrobat