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The Fastest Sword (天下第一劍) is a 1968 Shaw Brothers wu xia film directed and written by Pan Lei and starring Liu Ping as the eponymous "Fastest Sword", a possibly unbeatable sword fighter. It is noted for comparisons drawn between it and the Hollywood Western ''The Gunfighter'' although such comparisons are exaggerated,〔http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/f-fastestsword.html , retrieved 17 May 2014〕 its cinematography which is atypical for Hong Kong fight scenes of the time,〔http://www.silveremulsion.com/2012/01/27/the-fastest-sword-1968/ retrieved 17 May 2014〕 and a dramatic final fight scene. == Plotline == Ding Menghao is challenged to a duel by an 80-year-old monk armed with only a long smoking pipe. If Ding wins the monk will be his servant for three years and if the monk wins Ding has to do what the monk says for three years. The monk wins with a single blow and Ding follows him to his otherwise empty temple. He spends six months meditating before he complains, is then told to copy all the scriptures in a room which he pretends to have finished, then he is then given a hammer and told to make whatever he wants out of a large boulder of granite at the temple gate. Ding walks away, telling the youth to leave but the youth follows Ding and attacks him again, running onto the edge of Ding's only partly drawn sword and dying. Ding is asked to leave by the school's master. Ding takes up residence in a small village, assumes the name of Zhang, works for another man as a mason/statue carver and is considered odd because he was seen with a fine sword when he arrived and never socialises. After one month bandits attack. Every house and shop in town is damaged except for the masonry, the leader of the attack having taken one look at "Zhang" and left quietly. Rumours start that "Zhang" is in league with them and he prepares to leave but is summoned by the village leader and asked to work on a monument. "Zhang" agrees and is investigated by the leader's daughter Liu Qing, who becomes smitten with him. At the funeral Liu Qing talks to Ding, revealing her father's plan to have a fake funeral for him after killing Qiu so that he can now live in peace. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Fastest Sword」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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