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* Title: 倚天?*龙记 / Yi Tian Tu Long Ji
* Also known as: The Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre
* Genre: Wuxia
* Episodes: 40
* Broadcast network: CTS / BTV-4
* 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)
* Related TV series: See Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre
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.
Cast
* Alec Su as Zhang Cui Shan and Zhang Wu Ji
o 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
o Zhang Yi Jing as young Yang Bu Hui
* Phyllis Quek as Yin Su Su
* Elvis Tsui as Xie Xun
* Zhang Guo Li as Cheng Kun / Yuan Zhen
* Wang Gang as Wang Ye
* Tao Hong as Ji Xiao Fu
* Yan Qing Yu (阎青妤) as Granny Golden Flower
* Yan Min Qiu (严敏裘) as Priestess Mie Jue
* Wang Gang as Song Yuan Qiao
* Han Fu Yi as Yin Li Ting
* Hao Bo Jie as Wei Bi
* Dong Xiao Yan as Wang Nan Gu
* Fu Heng as Chang Yu Chun
* Lin Jing as Ding Min Jun
* Yuan Yuan as Fan Yao
* Liang Tian as Hu Qing Niu
* Li Jin Rong as Yu Lian Zhou (guest)
Production Credits
* Original writing (novel): The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber by Jin Yong
Notes
* This show was a China-Taiwan-Singapore co-production. It aired identically in all 3 regions except for the ending song. The Taiwanese show had an ending song sung by Alec Su. There is also supposed to be an English version of the opening song. The opening song sings about a man willing to surrender to the woman who has captured his heart. The ending song which Alec Su didn't sing is about a woman who's unwilling to allow the man she loves to have another woman in his heart.
