2005 -SEVEN SWORDS or heads will roll and arms and torsos and other body parts.

Tsui Hark's redo of The Seven Samurai with a lot more violence.  This is one of those wuxia films where the characters slice and dice each other for a couple of hours.

Probably one of the more conventional films I've seen from Hark.  Seven Swords is well made and has very good action, it's just been done before and done way too many times.

This film is a clear attempt by Hark for a hit film something he hadn't had for a while.  Hark had announced during the making of Seven Swords that this was to be a six film series but there hasn't been a sequel since he released it. 

The lack of follow up films is probably for the best.  Even Tsui Hark couldn't stay interested in this story.

153 minutes, the film was written by Tsui Hark, Cheung Chi-sing and Chun Tin-nam.