Details
Title: 倚天屠龙记 / Yi Tian Tu Long Ji
Also known as: The Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre
Genre: Wuxia
Episodes: 40
Broadcast year: 2003
China opening theme song: Xin Ai by Jin Xue Feng
China ending theme song: Ai Shang Zhang Wuji by Mao A Min
Taiwan opening theme song: Xue Lai de Shi Hou by Alec Su
Taiwan ending theme song: Da Sheng Shuo Ai Wo by Liu Yi Chun (劉依純)
Cast
Alec Su as Zhang Cui Shan and Zhang Wu Ji
Shi Xiao Long as young Zhang Wu Ji
Alyssa Chia as Zhao Min
Gao Yuan Yuan as Zhou Zhi Ruo
Florence Tan as Xiao Zhao
Chen Zi Han as Zhu Er
Zhang Tie Lin as Yang Xiao
Bao Yi Lin as Yang Bu Hui
Synopsis
Based on the popular novel by Jin Yong Kam Yung. He also wrote Legend of the Condor Heroes and Return of the Condor Heroes. The Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre takes place during 14th Century China during the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, roughly 100 years after the events of Return of the Condor Heroes. After decades of struggles, famine, and bitterness which the Chinese citizens blamed on the Yuan Dynasty’s misgovernment, the Martial Arts sects have begun to rebel. Prince Ruyong asks Cheng Kun, a Shaolin monk with an ulterior motive, for a plan on how to deal with the rebels.

“The wielder of Heavenly Sword and/or Dragon Sabre rules the world.”

This well known legend in the Martial Arts community is the impetus for the tale of Zhang Wuji. The story begins with how his parents met (episodes 1-3), then tells his trials as an adolescent (episodes 4-8), proceeds to relate his rise to prominence (episodes 9-23) and reveals the secret behind Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre (episode 23), and ends with the confluence of Wuji’s love life, the Martial Arts sects’ long standing grudges, and cruel fate.

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