The Sword Identity

The Sword Identity
The Sword Identity
Directed by	Xu Haofeng
Starring	Song Yang
Release dates	September 11, 2011 (Toronto International Film Festival); February 24, 2012 (China);
Running time	108 minutes
Country	China

The Sword Identity is a 2011 Chinese film directed by Xu Haofeng.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Once upon a time in the Southern Chinese city of Guancheng, there lived four families, each of them faithful keepers of martial arts. Anyone who wanted to establish a new sect, or a new form of kung fu, had to fight his way through the family's gates. But when Liang Henlu requests a competition, he is rejected and driven out of town, his strange new weapon mistaken for a Japanese sword and therefore forbidden by purist Chinese masters as a foreign fighting device. Liang is taken for a Japanese pirate and forced to hide in a boat filled with gypsy dancers. After a series of fights prove Liang's sword invincible, the Guancheng masters start to question their assumptions regarding the weapon's origins. They finally recognize that it is none other than the famous sword called 'Made in China' (modeled on a Japanese weapon), which the celebrated General Qi Jiguang used in his glorious defeat of the Japanese invasion.

Cast

Song Yang as Liang Henlu

References

^ Todd Brown (2011-09-11). "TIFF 2011: THE SWORD IDENTITY Review". Twitch Film. Retrieved 2011-09-12.
^ "The Sword Identity". tiff. Retrieved 2011-09-12.

External links

The Sword Identity at IMDb
The Sword Identity at Douban (in Chinese)

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[1] Todd Brown (2011-09-11). "TIFF 2011: THE SWORD IDENTITY Review". Twitch Film. Retrieved 2011-09-12.

[2] "The Sword Identity". tiff. Retrieved 2011-09-12.

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