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A cursed cleaver turns a butcher, chef, and swordsman into chaos incarnate. Wield at your own risk.
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The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman (2011)

unhingedstylized mayhemdarkly comic

Overview

ComedyAdventureAction

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.

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Content warning
butcherswordswordsman

Standout Aspects

Direction

Wuershan's hyper-stylized visual vomit somehow works

Editing

Three timelines slam together like a fever dream

Practical Effects

Gleefully grotesque weapon construction sequences

Best for:Friends: Drunken midnight chaos with people who get it·Binge: Triple-feature with Kung Fu Hustle and The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Heads up:Violence: Cartoonish but frequent bodily dismemberment·Gore: Blood geysers played for slapstick laughs
Wuershan

Director

Wuershan

ReleasedMar 17, 2011
Runtime1h 32m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacefast
Intensityhigh
Tonemixed
Feellight
Golden Network Asia
First Cut Studios Inc.

Top Cast

Masanobu Ando

Masanobu Ando

The Mute

Zhang Yuqi

Zhang Yuqi

Madame Mei

Han Pengyi

Han Pengyi

Chunge

Dong Li-Fan

Dong Li-Fan

House of a Thousand Flowers Manager

Gao Lei

Gao Lei

Flautist

Senggerenqin

Senggerenqin

Big Beard

Xie Ning

Xie Ning

Eunuch Liu

Hou Xiang

Hou Xiang

Little Melon

Gong Geer

Gong Geer

Apprentice Cheng

Zhu Jiang

Zhu Jiang

Apprentice Wei

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Deep Dive

Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Trivia

Wuershan's debut feature before painting the Monkey King franchise red. The studio hated it; cult audiences saved it.

Cultural

The segmented structure deliberately mirrors traditional Chinese storytelling—three kingdoms, three fates, one blade that outlives them all. Wuershan was essentially making wuxia Pulp Fiction for a market that wasn't ready.

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Discussion

Reactions from the web

Ohhh man I love Andou's heavily accentuated Chinese :DDD

@Ryodoudou 2

I am surprised the lawyers at Fox haven't taken down this trailer after they aggressively sent out letters to website owners a few months back for uploading them.

@vootwerk

wow guess mainland cinema is improving

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