A band of legendary swordsmen are drawn together against all odds to protect their village from an evil warlord, hell-bent on the merciless massacre of its innocent people.

Action master Tsui Hark reinvents the Seven Samurai template for 17th-century China, while also loosely adapting a beloved wuxia novel. Donnie Yen is among the all-star cast for this fantastical epic, where the weapons are sometimes so big that they almost eclipse the enormous natural locations.