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Blades of the Guardians
76Standing
22nd of 216 in Chinese Cinema
- Out-grossed 76% of Chinese Cinema releases with reported figures ($203M).
- Returned 1.7× its budget, against an industry median of 3.9×.
- Momentum in the 92nd percentile.
- Audience rating 8.2 from 241 votes, the 95th percentile.
- Cost
- $123M
- Took
- $203M
Hit1.7× its cost
Against a Chinese Cinema median of 3.9×, so this one returned 0.4 times what a typical release there does.
The money says hit. What do you say?
The picture
Dao Ma, the "second most wanted fugitive," is entrusted by his benefactor, the chief of Mo family clan, to take on a mysterious escort mission-escorting the "most wanted fugitive" to Chang'an.
- Released
- 17 February 2026
- Runtime
- 2h 6m
- Language
- Mandarin
- Industry
- Chinese Cinema
Top billedAll 29 credits
- Wu JingDao Ma
- Nicholas Tse Ting-FungDi Ting
- Chen LijunAyuya
- Yu ShiShu
- Chen LijunA Yuya
- Sun YizhouZhishilang
Made by
- Director
- Yuen Woo-Ping
- Writer
- Chan Tai-Lee, Yu Baimei, Su Chaobin, Larry Yang
- Original Music Composer
- Steffen Thum
- Director of Photography
- Tony Cheung Tung-Leung
- Producer
- Lau Tik
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