Holy Weapon | |||||||||||||||
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Director: | Wong Jing | ||||||||||||||
Music: | Danny Chung | ||||||||||||||
Cinematography: | Gigo Lee | ||||||||||||||
Distributor: | Regal Films Distribution Co., Ltd. | ||||||||||||||
Runtime: | 98 minutes | ||||||||||||||
Country: | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||
Language: | Cantonese |
Holy Weapon is a 1993 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Wong Jing. The film's Chinese title means Seven Princesses of Wuxia.
Holy Weapon presents the story of seven women who are recruited to challenge the threat posed by a Japanese swordsman of supernatural power and ability. Swordfighting, sorcery, mistaken identities and gender bending abound in this 1993 wire fu film.
The film is notable for a sequence in which six of the princesses "combine" into one giant warrior by standing on top of each other, invoking Super Robot tropes such as the "firing fist". This movie is based on mixing Gu Long novels and the ATV television series Paragon of Sword and Knife.