Soul of the Sword DVDrip {Big_A_Little_A} {Samurai RG}

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Sha jue
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Soul of the Sword
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Movie Information

Release year.........: 1978
Genre................: Action
IMDb rating..........: 6.7/10
IMDB Link............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076692/
Language.............: English Dub
Subtitles............: None

Duration.............: 1h 28mn
Source...............: DVD R1
Format...............: MPEG-4
Format/Info..........: Base Media
File size............: 444 MB
Overall bit rate.....: 699 Kbps
Writing application..: HandBrake 0.9.5/Yamb 2.1.0.0




Video/Audio Attributes

Format................: AVC
Format profile........: High@L3.0
Codec ID..............: avc1
Bit rate..............: 630 Kbps
Width.................: 720 pixels
Height................: 358 pixels
Display aspect ratio..: 2.35:1
Frame rate............: 23.976 fps
Color space...........: YUV
Chroma subsampling....: 4:2:0
Bit depth.............: 8 bits
Scan type.............: Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)....: 0.102
Writing library.......: x264 core 112

Format................: AAC
Format/Info...........: Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile........: LC
Codec ID..............: 40
Bit rate mode.........: Variable
Bit rate..............: 64.2 Kbps
Channel(s)............: 2 channels
Channel positions.....: Front: L R
Sampling rate.........: 48.0 KHz
Compression mode......: Lossy
Stream size...........: 40.7 MiB (9%)




Plot summary

Directed by Hua Shan in 1978, Soul Of The Sword is a pretty impressive sword play film that stars Feng Ku as Lu Tien-Kang, The King Of Swords, a bad ass wanderer who makes pretty short work of anyone who gets in his way thanks to his deft skills with blades of all sizes. He's pretty much renowned as the best swordsman in all the land, though his large black hat and ominous black cloak protect his identity from everyone. A young boy watches one of his duels and tries to uncover his face, but to no avail.

Fast forward into the future a bit and that boy is now a man (Ti Lung) who, thanks to countless hours of training, has become a master swordsman in his own right. Like the King Of Swords before him, our nameless hero wanders around accepting challenges from anyone who would like to prove their skills against his own. The King Of Swords hears of this newcomer, but doesn't pay him much mind and doesn't suspect that someone as new to the ways of sword fighting could pose much of a threat to his superiority. Our wanderer finds himself attacked one night, and after making short work of his female opponent, winds up befriending a doctor named Chiu, but their friendship becomes more complicated when his life starts to resemble the life of the man who he saw The King Of Swords beat in a duel all those years back.

Soul Of The Sword is just as manic a film as you'd expect from Hua Shan, the man who gave us the cult classic Super Inframan a few years earlier in 1975. The fight scenes have a palpable energy and enthusiasm to them that makes them a whole lot of fun while the plot, as grim as it gets, keeps us interested throughout. As it all reaches its conclusion the story throws more to the whims
of circumstance than it probably should have, there are just far too many odd coincidences here for the story to really stand head and shoulders above the rest, but it works well enough. If nothing else, it allows our characters to develop quite a bit and it provides a context for the many scenes of combat to exist within.




Production

sui Hark.............: Director
Kang Chien Chiu.......: Writer
Chan Wei Lin..........: Writer
Mona Fong.............: executive producer
Run Run Shaw..........: supervising producer
Yung-Yu Chen..........: Original Music
Te-Wei Chang..........: Cinematographer
Hsing-lung Chiang.....: Editor
Ching-Shen Chen.......: Set Decoration
Chi-Yu Liu............: Costume Design
Yen-Lien Peng.........: hair stylist
Hsu-Ching Wu..........: makeup artist
Ai-fang Li............: production manager
Chan Wei Lin..........: assistant director
Hsiang Yuen...........: props
Yung-Hua Wang.........: sound recordist
Chia Tang.............: stunt coordinator
Fen Chen..............: lighting technician
Cheng Peng............: production assistant
Yun-chung Peng........: script supervisor




Cast

Lung Ti..............: Wu-ming 'The Anonymous'
Chen Chi Lin.........: Ke Lien / Greenhorn's lover
Feng Ku..............: Lu Tien Kang
Hui-Ling Liu.........: Three Strokes Hua-Chang
Norman Chu...........: Yen
Yung Henry Yu........: The Emperor
Lily Li..............: Lo-yang assassin (Guest star)
Shen Chan............: Challenger in street
Chun-hao Chen........: Greenhorn challenger
Han Chiang...........: Royal guard
Szu-ying Chien.......: Ke-lien's guardian
Tien-chu Chin........: Innkeeper
Alan Chui Chung San..: 8 Diagram guard
Ming Fung............: Blind streetsage
Hsia Hsu.............: Inn challenger
Ling Ling Hung.......: Courtesan
Fai Wong Lam.........: Pakua Priest Lung
Hoi Sang Lee.........: Shaolin Monk
Fanny Leung..........: Groped spectator (as Man-yi Liang)
Chia Chun Lun........: Spectator
Yung-sheng Pan.......: Hunchback twin
Te Hsiang Teng.......: 8 Diagram guard
Ching Ho Wang........: Stonecutter
Dave Wong............: Young Wu-ming
Brandy Yuen..........: Hunchback twin
Bun Yuen.............: 8 Diagram guard
Cheung-Yan Yuen......: 8 Diagram guard
Corey Yuen...........: 8 Diagram guard
Shun-Yee Yuen........: Inn challenger



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Date of post.......: 23.11.2011