The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman

Mar 17, 2011

1h 32m

★ 5.4

One legendary blade will change the destiny of all who wield it.

Overview

A tale of revenge, honor and greed follows a group of misfits that gets involved with a kitchen cleaver made from the top five swords of the martial arts world in this wild and brash action comedy.

Genres

Comedy

Action

Adventure

Production Companies

First Cut Studios Inc.

Fox International Productions

Golden Network Asia

The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman Trailers

Cast

The Mute

Masanobu Ando

Madame Mei

Zhang Yuqi

Chopper

Liu Xiao-Ye

Chunge

Han Pengyi

House of a Thousand Flowers Manager

Dong Li-Fan

Flautist

Gao Lei

Troupe Leader

Liu Xu

Big Beard

Senggerenqin

House of a Thousand Flowers Patron

An Yun-Cheng

Big Eight Chef

Mi Dan

Eunuch Liu

Xie Ning

Little Melon

Hou Xiang

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