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Death Duel
Film poster
Traditional Chinese三少爺的劍
Simplified Chinese三少爷的剑
Hanyu PinyinSān Shào Yé Dè Jiàn
Directed byChor Yuen
Screenplay byChor Yuen
Story byGu Long
Produced byRunme Shaw
StarringDerek Yee
Ling Yun
Candice Yu
CinematographyWong Chit
Edited byChiang Hsing-lung
Production
company
Distributed byShaw Brothers Studio
Release date
  • 7 July 1977 (1977-07-07)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$1.64 million[1]

Death Duel (Chinese: 三少爺的劍) is a 1977 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Chor Yuen under the Shaw Brothers Studio banner. The film stars Derek Yee (whose role as the third master launched his career), Ling Yun, and marked the debut of Candice Yu for Shaw Studio where she plays a prostitute. The film based on the Gu Long's novel of the same name.[2] It was remade in 2016 as Sword Master, directed by Derek Yee.

Plot

The Third Master is considered to be the greatest sword master of the day but he leaves his clan when he sees the wrongs of his father and the greed of his fiancé. Ending up as the lowest at a brothel and living as Useless An, he cannot shake his past. He tries to protect a lowly prostitute and her poor but happy family but only brings them sorrow. His greatest rival, sick from years of abuse to his body and soul and thinking the third dead, begins digging his own grave in the same town. In trying to help he brings an evil army to the town.

Cast

Reception

Paul of hkcinema.com gave the film four out of five stars, writing, "Death Duel is one of the latter wuxia films featuring the enchanting direction of Chor Yuen."[3]

Reviewer Andrew Saroch of fareastfilms.com gave the film four out of five stars, writing, "Death Duel is a bleak, nihilistic swordplay film that embodies all of the qualities that one expects from a Chor Yuen adaptation of a Gu Long story."[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Death Duel". Hong Kong Movie DataBase. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Death Duel". Silver Emulsion Film Reviews. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Death Duel". Hong Kong Cinema. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Death Duel". Far East Films. Retrieved 14 July 2020.

External links

Films directed by Chor Yuen
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