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Dao = The blade [Blu-ray]
Published [2026] by The Criterion Collection, [United States]
UPC 715515332019
Bib Id 1578455
Edition Blu-ray edition.
Description 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
More Details
Leader
cgm a22 7a 4500
ISBN
9798886074079 : $37.00
UPC
715515332019
Publisher Number
CC3797BD
Language
chi eng
Call #
CHI Blu-ray D
Title
Dao = The blade [Blu-ray]
Varying Form of Title
Blade
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Publication Information
[2026] by The Criterion Collection, [United States] :
Description
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Form of Work
Motion pictures
System Details
Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (1.85:1); requires Blu-ray player.
Language Note
Cantonese or English dialogue; English subtitles.
Note
Title from web page.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1995.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Special features: Audio commentary with Frank Djeng; Action et vérité (2006), a documentary featuring director Tsui Hark, co-screenwriter Koan Hui and Xiong, Xin-xin; new video essay by filmmakers Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou; New York Asian film festival Q&A with Tsui from 2011; trailer
Cast
Vincent Zhao, Moses Chan, Xiong Xin-xin.
Summary
Among the boldest accomplishments 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, 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.
Subject
Genre/Form
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Action and adventure films.
Martial arts films
Fiction films.
Action and adventure films.
Martial arts films
Series
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