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.

Original Title : QI JIANDirector(s) : Hark TsuiWriter(s) : Chris Chow (script translator), Hark Tsui, 3creditsYear : 2005Country : Hong Kong | China | South Korea Langage : Mandarin | Korean | Cantonese Coulor : Color Ratio : 2.35 : 1 Sound : Dolby Digital Aka(s) :
Qi Jian - Hong Kong (original title)
Seven Swords - International (imdb display title) (English title) / Italy (imdb display title)
Siete espadas - Argentina (DVD title) / Spain
7 spathia - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
A hét kard legendája - Hungary (imdb display title)
Chat gim - Hong Kong (Cantonese title)
Die sieben Schwerter - Germany
Sept guerriers - Canada (French title)
Sete Espadas - Portugal (imdb display title)
Seven Swords of Mt. Tien - Part I - Hong Kong (working title) (English title)
Seven Swordsmen Leave Mt. Heaven - Hong Kong (working title) (English title)
Seven swords - France (imdb display title)
Siedem mieczy - Poland
Syv sverd - Norway (imdb display title)Actors :
Chia-Liang Liu - Fu Qingzhu
Leon Lai - Yang Yuncong
Donnie Yen - Chu Zhaonan
Charlie Yeung - Wu Yuanying
Honglei Sun - General Fire-Wind
So-yeon Kim - Green Pearl
Yi Lu - Han Zhibang
Duncan Lai - Mulang (as Duncan Chow)
Liwu Dai - Xin Long Zi
Jingchu Zhang - Liu Yufang
Jason Pai Piao - Liu Jingyi
Kuan-Chun Chi - Qiu Luo Dong
Jiajia Chen - Kualo
Michael Wong - Prince Dokado (as Michael F. Wong)
Yao Bai-Ling - Chang Yu
Bing Bo - Village elder
Deng Chang-Cheng - Da Peng
Li Chang-Hung - Xiao Zheng
Chen Du-Shuai - Martial artist
Guo Feng-Qiang - Black Spirit
Jiang Guang-Jin - San Zi
Zhang Gui-Jun - Xiao Si
Du Ji-Dong - Xiong Miao
Zhang Jie - Hair Wolf
Jiang Ke-Yu - Martial artist
Gu Kun - Shu Mu Zi
Chen Lan-Ji - Martial artist
Haitao Li - Si Yi Lang
Tuo Li-Ming - Lan Xiu Ji
Hai-Bin Lin - San Gen
Ming Zhe Liu - Jiao Ci
Jingwu Ma - Master Shadow Glow
Sui Meng-Zhu - Zhu Zhu
Huang Peng - Guan San Dao
Ma Qing-Zeng - Martial artist
Yang Shang-Lei - Da Hai
Ruan Tang - Xiao Pi
Tengfei Tang - Stone Beast
Wenjie Wang - Duke's young attendant
Chi Man Wong - Dagger Peak
Jie Xi-Bin - Ping An
Lixiao Yang - Girl in pool of blood
Michelle Yim - Luzhu (voice)
Yao Zan-Hua - Hao Ge
Bai Zeng-Bin - Sun Lao Tou
Chao Zhang - Zhang Hua Zhao
Xie Zhang - Bald Lion
Liu Zhen-Bao - Mud Trot