The Fastest Sword (1968)

Original title

天下第一劍

Directed by

Pan Lei

Genre

drama film, adventure film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A lone swordsman who may be unbeatable faces challengers testing his speed and skill. Tension builds toward a final duel that shifts how fights are filmed in Hong Kong cinema.

slow-burntensedramaticmelancholicvisually strikingatmosphericbroodingstylized

What happens

The Fastest Sword (天下第一劍) is a 1968 Shaw Brothers wu xia film directed and written by Pan Lei and starring Liu Ping as the eponymous "Fastest Sword", a possibly unbeatable sword fighter. It is noted for comparisons drawn between it and the Hollywood Western The Gunfighter although such comparisons are exaggerated, its cinematography which is atypical for Hong Kong fight scenes of the time, and a dramatic final fight scene. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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