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| Directed by | Lee Joon-ik |
| Produced by | Jo Cheol-hyeon Lee Jeong-se |
| Written by | Jo Cheol-hyeon Oh Seung-hyeon Choi Seok-hwan |
| Based on | Like the Moon Escaping from the Clouds by Park Heung-yong |
| Starring | Hwang Jeong-min Cha Seung-won Han Ji-hye Baek Seong-hyun Kim Chang-hwan Song Young-chang |
| Music by | Kim Soo-chul Kim Joon-seok |
| Cinematography | Jeong Jeong-hoon |
| Editing by | Kim Sang-beom Kim Jae-beom |
| Studio | Studio Acheem, Tiger Pictures |
| Distributed by | SK Telecom |
| Release date(s) | April 28, 2010 |
| Running time | 107 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
Blades of Blood (Goo-reu-meul beo-seo-nan dal-cheo-reom 구르믈 버서난 달처럼) is a 2010 South Korean action drama film directed by Lee Joon-ik. The film is based on the graphic novel Like the Moon Escaping from the Clouds.[1]
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Actor Hwang Jung-min expressed his difficulty playing a blind character in the film. Hwang went to schools for blind people to observe their movements but stated that "it still wasn’t an easy role to play".[2]
Blades of Blood premiered on April 29, 2010 in Korea.[3] The film had its international premiere at New York Asian Film Festival on July 8, 2010 where it was the festival's closing film.[4][5] Lee Joon-ik won the Jury Award for Best Director at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal Canada.[6] Blades of Blood was one of six films considered as Korea's submission for the foreign-language Oscar award.[7]
Film Business Asia gave the film a rating of seven out of ten, praising action and characters calling it a "cut above most Korean swordplay dramas."[3] Variety gave the film a mixed review, stating that "political infighting on the eve of a Japanese invasion is told with unnecessarily broad, imagistic strokes that let character-generated conflicts slip between the blades" as well as that "the film easily outdoes numerous gimmicky f/x extravaganzas, explaining its early pickup by several European and Asian distribs."[8]