Xin du bi dao (1971)

Note Générale:

7,5/10   

Réalisateur:

Cheh Chang

Scénariste:

Kuang Ni (writer)

Date de sortie:

7 février 1971 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Action | Drame | Histoire | Guerre

Intrigue:

Lei Li lost his right-arm in a sword duel with the master of a martial arts school, long ago. Now, he...

Plot Keywords:

Mastermind | Pride | Heroic Bloodshed | Fortress | Wager

Avis des utilisateurs:

David Chiang takes over in lavish Shaw Bros. follow-up

Ensemble

David Chiang	...	Lei Li
Ching Lee	...	Pa Hsiao
Lung Ti	...	Feng Chun-Chieh
Feng Ku	...	Lung I Chih
Sing Chen	...	Chen Chun Nan
Lei Cheng	...	Ching I
Chung Wang	...	Chin Feng
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Kang-Yeh Cheng
Chun Chin
Hak On Fung
Hsia Hsu
Pei Chi Huang
Wei Hu
Hsiung Kao
Wei Lieh Lan
Chiu Lee
Shang Yun Liang
Heng Li
Chia Yung Liu	...	Bandit rider
Kang Liu
Wai Lo	...	Doomed swordsman
Chia Wen Pao
Lao Shen	...	Blacksmith Pa
Yan Tsan Tang
Ching Ho Wang
Kuang Yu Wang
Ching Wong
Ha Wong
Chi Chin Wu
Shi-Kwan Yen
Cheung-Yan Yuen
Shun-Yee Yuen
Lung Yu

Réalisé par
Cheh Chang

Scénaristes (dans l'ordre alphabétique)
Kuang Ni		writer

Produit par
Runme Shaw	....	producer

Musique originale
Yung-Yu Chen

Image
Mu-To Kung

Montage
Ting Hung Kuo

Direction artistique
Johnson Tsao

Création des costumes
Chi Li

Maquillage
Yuen Fang	....	makeup artist

Technicien du son
Yung-Hua Wang	....	sound recordist

Cascadeur
Chia-Liang Liu	....	action coordinator
Chia Tang	....	action coordinator

Companies de production

• Shaw Brothers

Distributeurs

• Concorde Film (197?) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• National General Pictures (1973) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)

Autre(s) titre(s):

New One-Armed Swordsman (Hong Kong: English title) (original subtitled version)
Sun duk bei do (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
Triple Irons (USA) (dubbed version)

Durée:

USA:99 min | West Germany:102 min

Pays:

Hong Kong

Langue:

Mandarin

Couleur:

Couleur

Rapport de forme:

2,35 : 1

Son:

Mono

Classification:

Finland:(Banned) (1973) | USA:R | West Germany:16 (nf)

Société:

Shaw Brothers

Connexions:

figure dans Cinema Hong Kong: Kung Fu (2003) (TV)

David Chiang takes over in lavish Shaw Bros. follow-up

THE NEW ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (aka TRIPLE IRONS, 1971) follows director Chang Cheh's earlier one-armed swordsman films (ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN, RETURN OF THE ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN) but replaces departing star Jimmy Wang Yu with the director's newer find, David Chiang, who is joined by frequent co-star Ti Lung. It's a colorful, occasionally moody historical adventure shot on Shaw Bros.' sprawling Hong Kong backlot and features a climactic battle in which the titular hero takes on an army of bad guys single-handed.

David plays a swordsman tricked into a duel to defend his honor with a corrupt swordfighting teacher (Ku Feng) who causes him to cut off his own arm. He leaves the `gallant fraternity' and broods in isolation, making a living as a waiter at a roadside tavern. When a wandering swordsman, played by Ti Lung, learns who he is and gives him a pep talk, David is stirred, but refuses to take action. When Ti is killed by the same corrupt teacher, who uses a lethal three-section staff, David is finally spurred to action and, armed with a dead warrior's sword given to him by the tavern owner's sympathetic daughter (Li Ching), he goes after the offending gang of fighters and figures out a 3-sword move designed to beat the 3-section staff. Before he's through, he leaves a trail of corpses littering a massive bridge leading to the gang's fortress.

David Chiang may not have been the best martial artist, but he had a wiry, energetic quality that served him well in this type of slashing and swirling fighting style. He also exuded a brooding intensity that came in handy in his portrayal of the onetime swordsman, who is crippled both physically and psychologically and has turned his back on his calling. Chiang and Ti Lung worked well together in violent tales of male bonding in turbulent eras. The villains here, Ku Feng and Chen Sing, both excelled at playing devious and crafty characters capable of unctuous charm one minute and great cruelty the next.

Famed martial arts director Lau Kar Leung worked on the fight scenes, in which kung fu takes a back seat to swashbuckler-style sword- and weapons play. (Lau was an expert in both styles of fighting.) This was one of a group of costume epics made by Chang Cheh prior to his series of Shaolin-themed martial arts films, dating from 1973-76, which put kung fu in the foreground and were made initially in collaboration with Lau, who broke off in 1975 to direct his own films.