--- title: 'Seven Swords (2005)' type: 'film' director: 'Tsui Hark' released: '2005-01-01' runtime_minutes: 141 genres: - 'Action' countries: - 'Hong Kong' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/seven-swords-2005' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429078/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Seven Swords (2005) 2005 · 141 min · Action · Hong Kong Original title: 七劍 ## Synopsis Seven Swords (七劍) is a 2005 wuxia film produced and directed by Tsui Hark, starring Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung, Sun Honglei, Lu Yi and Kim So-yeon. An international co-production between Hong Kong, China, South Korea and the Netherlands, it served as the opening film to the 2005 Venice Film Festival and pays homage to Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai. Loosely adapted from Liang Yusheng's wuxia novel Qijian Xia Tianshan, it follows the story of seven swordsmen, each wielding a special sword, protecting a village under attack by a ruthless warlord. ## Credits - **Director:** [Tsui Hark](https://cinepixo.com/people/tsui-hark) - **Screenplay:** [Tsui Hark](https://cinepixo.com/people/tsui-hark) - **Producer:** [Tsui Hark](https://cinepixo.com/people/tsui-hark) - **Original Music Composer:** [Kenji Kawai](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenji-kawai) - **Director of Photography:** [Herman Yau](https://cinepixo.com/people/herman-yau), [Venus Keung](https://cinepixo.com/people/venus-keung) - **Editor:** [Angie Lam](https://cinepixo.com/people/angie-lam) ## Cast - [Duncan Chow](https://cinepixo.com/people/duncan-chow) - [Zhang Jingchu](https://cinepixo.com/people/zhang-jingchu) - [Charlie Yeung](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlie-yeung) - [Donnie Yen](https://cinepixo.com/people/donnie-yen) - [Sun Honglei](https://cinepixo.com/people/sun-honglei) - [Leon Lai](https://cinepixo.com/people/leon-lai) - [Michael Wong](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-wong) - [Kim So-yeon](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-so-yeon) - [Lau Kar-leung](https://cinepixo.com/people/lau-kar-leung) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/seven-swords-2005 Film facts: Wikidata (Q781053); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.