The Blade

The Blade - Tsui Hark, the cause célèbre of film studies students around the world, has dipped into many genres during his career. With The Blade (1995), he returns to the original 'macho cinema' of the late sixties, pioneered by director Chang Cheh and lead Jimmy Wang Yu. This work came in the most successful period of Hark's career during the early to mid nineties. After his role in the development of wire-fu with the Once Upon a Time in China series and his work on Swordsman (all starring Jet Li), Tsui Hark embarked on this ambitious remake with a flurry of high-octane action and his distinctive cinematic style.