Wudang di yi jian (The First Sword of Wudang) is a fictional kung fu-comedy filmed together with the 11-17 -year-old students of Wudang Daoist Martial Arts Academy, Huilong Guan, Wudang, China. The storyline for this Chinese-Finnish collaboration film was brainstormed by the students themselves; they designed the kung fu choreography and perform in the movie. In the story, the mountain's greatest swordsman and his apprentice invade the kung fu academy in order to steal a book of Wudang 13 ‒ the school's most valued tai chi routine...
æ¦å½“第一剑 (THE FIRST SWORD OF WUDANG)
Story by: the traditional class of Wudang Daoist Martial Arts Academy
Screenplay by: Mirkka Suhonen with He Yuankai & Tim
Directed, filmed & edited by: Mirkka Suhonen
Assistant directors: He Yuankai, Tim
Cast: the traditional class
Crew: He Yuankai, Grace Liu, Chen Jing, Tim
​Music by: Ville Suopajärvi
Audio engineering by: Jukka Nurmela & Heikki Kivelä
Translated by: Yumin Raitamaa, Wei Xiong
Year: 2018
​Country: Finland/China
Running time: 18min
Language: Chinese
Subtitles: English, Finnish
Please note that this film was made outside class hours for fun in very limited time, and it is not meant to represent the great art of Wudang kung fu. Some of the students appearing in the film had only recently started the school.
Coming soon: This film project is not complete without a documentary about the students' life and training. Stay tuned!
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