Death Duel Explained

Death Duel
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T:三少爺的劍
S:三少爷的剑
P:Sān Shào Yé Dè Jiàn
Director:Chor Yuen
Producer:Runme Shaw
Screenplay:Chor Yuen
Story:Gu Long
Starring:Derek Yee
Ling Yun
Candice Yu
Cinematography:Wong Chit
Editing:Chiang Hsing-lung
Studio:Shaw Brothers Studio
Distributor:Shaw Brothers Studio
Runtime:90 minutes
Country:Hong Kong
Language:Cantonese
Gross:[1]

Death Duel is a 1977 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Chor Yuen under the Shaw Brothers Studio banner. The film stars Derek Yee (whose role as the third master launched his career), Ling Yun, and marked the debut of Candice Yu for Shaw Studio where she plays a prostitute. The film based on the Gu Long's novel of the same name.[2] It was remade in 2016 as Sword Master, directed by Derek Yee.

Plot

The Third Master is considered to be the greatest sword master of the day but he leaves his clan when he sees the wrongs of his father and the greed of his fiancé. Ending up as the lowest at a brothel and living as Useless An, he cannot shake his past. He tries to protect a lowly prostitute and her poor but happy family but only brings them sorrow. His greatest rival, sick from years of abuse to his body and soul and thinking the third dead, begins digging his own grave in the same town. In trying to help he brings an evil army to the town.

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Reception

Paul of hkcinema.com gave the film four out of five stars, writing, "Death Duel is one of the latter wuxia films featuring the enchanting direction of Chor Yuen."[3]

Reviewer Andrew Saroch of fareastfilms.com gave the film four out of five stars, writing, "Death Duel is a bleak, nihilistic swordplay film that embodies all of the qualities that one expects from a Chor Yuen adaptation of a Gu Long story."[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Death Duel . . 6 July 2021.
  2. Web site: Death Duel. 14 July 2018. Silver Emulsion Film Reviews. 2020-07-14.
  3. Web site: Death Duel. Hong Kong Cinema. 2020-07-14.
  4. Web site: Death Duel. Far East Films. 2020-07-14.