• Director(s)

    Patrick Tam

  • Production Year

    1980

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Martial Arts

  • Approx. running minutes

    89m

  • Cast

    Chi-Chi Chen, Adam Cheng, Norman Chu

Film

The Sword

strong violence, injury detail, domestic abuse

THE SWORD is a 1980 Cantonese language martial arts adventure in which a swordsman searches for a blade with mystical powers.…

THE SWORD is a 1980 Cantonese language martial arts adventure in which a swordsman searches for a blade with mystical powers.

violence
A person is sliced in half in a scene accompanied by a blood spurt. There are also stylised sword fights in which people are slashed, stabbed and decapitated. Some of these scenes include blood in the aftermath. There are brief scenes of domestic abuse in which a negatively presented character slaps his partner and pulls her up by the hair.
injury detail
There is emphasised blood in the aftermath of violence, as well as sight of heavily bloodstained corpses lying in pools of blood.
additional issues
A person takes their own life in a scene which features limited detail. People are threatened with weapons. There is a mildly sexualised scene in which a woman dresses; however, there is no strong detail.

  • Director(s)

    Patrick Tam

  • Production Year

    1980

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Martial Arts

  • Approx. running minutes

    89m

  • Cast

    Chi-Chi Chen, Adam Cheng, Norman Chu

strong violence, injury detail, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
18/11/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Eureka Entertainment Ltd
violence
A person is sliced in half in a scene accompanied by a blood spurt. There are also stylised sword fights in which people are slashed, stabbed and decapitated. Some of these scenes include blood in the aftermath. There are brief scenes of domestic abuse in which a negatively presented character slaps his partner and pulls her up by the hair.
injury detail
There is emphasised blood in the aftermath of violence, as well as sight of heavily bloodstained corpses lying in pools of blood.
additional issues
A person takes their own life in a scene which features limited detail. People are threatened with weapons. There is a mildly sexualised scene in which a woman dresses; however, there is no strong detail.

  • Classified date

    18/11/2024

  • Language

    Cantonese