Sword Master (film)

Sword Master
Poster
Directed by	Derek Yee
Produced by	Tsui Hark
Screenplay by	Tsui Hark Derek Yee Chun Tin-nam
Based on	The Third Master's Sword by Gu Long
Starring	Lin Gengxin Peter Ho Jiang Yiyan Jiang Mengjie
Production company	Bona Film Group Film Unlimited Production
Distributed by	Zhejiang Bona Production Xinjiang Bona Runze Media Huaxia Film Distribution
Release date	2 December 2016 (China)
Running time	108 minutes
Country	China
Language	Mandarin
Box office	CN¥100.7 million (China) US$75,526 (United States)

Sword Master (Chinese: 三少爺的劍) is a 2016 Chinese 3D martial arts film directed by Derek Yee. The film was released on 2 December 2016. The film made its worldwide and domestic debut at the 11th Rome Film Festival and the 53rd Golden Horse Film Festival respectively.

In this beautifully shot wuxia epic, a self taught highly skilled assassin swordsman is haunted by the destructive impact his deadly talents have and from the absence of a competent swords-person whom he can fight wanders around searching at the same time for a good location for his grave and lives the remaining of his life to the full as he is dying. The master swordsman, weary of the bloodshed and violence from the martial arts world and as a classically taught descendant of a legendary swordsman family, banishes himself to the humble life of a vagrant, wandering the fringes of society in search of real life and its simpleness absconding his will to fight. But his violent past refuses to let him go quietly. The master swordsman and the skilled assassin regain their ability to wield swords without hesitating to fight those disrupting the peace and to defeat those who desperately crave despotism. The master swordsman honors his dying ally, the assassin who sought for a worthy swordsman to fight and if fate allows to die honorably.

The film was produced at the Hengdian World Studios.

The film grossed CN¥100.7 million in box office (China).