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This article is about the 2005 film. For the Liang Yusheng novel, see Qijian Xia Tianshan. For the Tsui Hark television series, see Seven Swordsmen.

2005 Hong Kong film

Seven Swords is a 2005 wuxia film produced and directed by Tsui Hark, starring Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung, Sun Honglei, Lu Yi and Kim So-yeon.

An international co-production between Hong Kong, China, South Korea and the Netherlands, the story is loosely adapted from Liang Yusheng's novel Qijian Xia Tianshan and is completely unrelated to the novel except for some characters' names.

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Seven Swords was used as the opening film to the 2005 Venice Film Festival and as a homage to Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai.

Plot

In the mid-17th century, the Manchus conquer the territories of the former Ming Empire in China and establish the Qing Empire.

When anti-Qing sentiments start brewing within the wulin (martial artists' community), the Qing government immediately imposes a