| The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 倚天屠龍記 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 倚天屠龙记 | ||||||
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| Genre | Wuxia | ||||||
| Based on | The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber by Louis Cha | ||||||
| Directed by | Lai Shui-ching | ||||||
| Starring | Steve Ma Cecilia Yip Kathy Chow | ||||||
| Opening theme | Suiyu Er'an (隨遇而安) performed by Wong Jim | ||||||
| Ending theme | Ai Jiangshan Geng Ai Meiren (愛江山更愛美人) performed by Lily Lee | ||||||
| Country of origin | Taiwan | ||||||
| Original language | Mandarin | ||||||
| No. of episodes | 64 | ||||||
| Production | |||||||
| Producer | Young Pei-pei | ||||||
| Production location | Taiwan | ||||||
| Running time | 45 minutes per episode | ||||||
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| Network | TTV | ||||||
| Release | 10 March 1994 | ||||||
The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, also known as The Legend of Dragon Slayer Sword, is a Taiwanese television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. The series was first broadcast on TTV in Taiwan in 1994. In this adaptation, the plot of the story is procrastinating, but the overall story is more complete, and the feelings of the play is more delicate and touching than other versions. It also corrected many unreasonable parts of the original story, and the ending of the plot is more in line with the plot of the original serial story.