The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman

The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin Do Jin Xio is a 2010 action comedy film directed by Wuershan. The film is a connection of three intertwining stories. The first about a butcher who takes revenge on a swordsman for humiliation, the second is about a chef who has his apprentice makes an eightcourse meal for the powerful Eunuch Liu. The final story is about a warrior with a powerful sword melted from other champion swords, but the sword does not work as expected during combat.

Desire is set in a remote area in Ancient China where a butcher named Chopper Liu Xiaoye is in love with Madam Mei Kitty Zhang and tries to buy her, but is beaten to her by the swordsman Big Beard Senggerenqin who gets her first. Humiliated, he tries to commit suicide but is saved by a beggar using a cleaver of incredible quality. Ignoring the beggars warning that the cleaver is a kitchen knife not meant for homicide, Chopper steals the blade and seeks vengeance on Big Beard.In Vengeance, which is the beggars story of the cleaver, a master chef Mi Dan is instructed to prepare his renowned eightcourse specialties for the powerful Court Eunuch Liu Xie Ning who will be in the area in a months time. The eunuch is a food connoisseur who is known to execute cooks who fail to satisfy his palate. To safeguard his recipes, the master chef chooses his mute apprentice Ando Masanobuto be his successor and imparts the secrets of his specialties. As the chef revealed that the key to the final dish was in using the special cleaver to scale and gut a fish, he is unaware he is falling into a trap of his new protege who has different plans for the cleaver. After the chef samples the poisoned dishes by the protege and realises the plot, he reveals the origins of the cleaver. ........

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