Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Sword of Life and Death

Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Sword of Life and Death (Thunderbolt Fantasy: 生死一劍, Sandāboruto Fantajī: Seishi Ikken, Thunderbolt Fantasy: Shēng Sǐ Yī Jiàn) is the first feature-length film created by the Thunderbolt Fantasy Project. It was originally released on December 2, 2017 in Japan and December 8, 2017 in Taiwan; it was released on disc on April 4, 2018. The film is split into two parts: the first is an adaption of Shā Wú Shēng's chapter from the Thunderbolt Fantasy: Tōriken Kōki Gaiden side novel and follows his past with Lǐn Xuě Yā. The second part takes place a month after Season 1 and follows a comical misadventure involving Shāng Bù Huàn.

Plot
Part one of the film takes place a year before the events of Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 1. Shā Wú Shēng has spent three years working as the Enigmatic Gale's bodyguard. Despite Wú Shēng's reputation as a fearsome assassin, Gale forbids him from killing unnecessarily. Letting his defeated opponents go without killing them is a sentiment that Wú Shēng doesn't understand but abides nonetheless. When Gale is tracked down by a swordsman he has wronged in the past, Wú Shēng fends off the swordsman without killing him.

At an inn, the two of them discuss the topic and their differing opinions on what it means to be a "respectable swordsman." Wú Shēng points out that "Shā Wú Shēng" means "destroyer of life," which should be enough of an indicator as to why he could never be a respectable swordsman. Gale asks why his parents would give him such an awful name. Wú Shēng explains that, on the day he was born, a flock of birds was crying outside of his family's house: an ill omen. When his mother died in childbirth, the midwife pinned the blame on her assistant. The altercation grew so violent that everyone present in the house at the time was killed. When Wú Shēng's father found him, he was crying in a pool of blood while the birds outside continued to cry. Soon after, his father discarded him at the school where Wú Shēng's future master found him. Wú Shēng's head was split open when his father threw him away, and he nearly died from the wound. The note that his father left claimed that Wú Shēng would become "a destroyer of life, a man-eating fiend," and he pleaded that whoever found Wú Shēng should kill him. As Wú Shēng sees it, he has only become the kind of swordsman his name predicted he would be. Gale asks him why he can't simply make a new name for himself and leave his reputation as a destroyer of life behind him. That's when Gale comes up with a new name for him: Míng Fèng Jué Shā, the Screaming Phoenix Killer.

Techniques

 * Dry Bones Blood Slash - Cán Xiōng
 * Silencing of the Gods - Shā Wú Shēng
 * Black Sky Gem Clatter - Tiě Dí Xiān
 * Song of the Mountain: Rhapsody of Blades - Tiě Dí Xiān

Plot
Part two of the film takes place a month after Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 1.

Techniques

 * Eight-Edged Chaos Dragon Cannon - Wěi

In his retelling of the events of Season 1, Wěi claims to have used this technique in his battle against Qì Tiān Dì (a battle that did not actually occur).

Background
The film was first announced on March 25, 2017 at AnimeJapan 2017.