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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:06:48 -0500
- From: Daniel Read <dr3u+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Tsui Hark filmography?
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- Faran Thomason states:
- --On the Chinese Ghost Story films, Swordsman and The Raid it's debatable
- --whether he fully directed these. HE is usally credited as producer and
- Ching --Su Tung is credited as director--but Hark is most assosiated
- with these films)
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- I don't think this is debatable at all . Clearly, Tsui Hark has had an
- influence on Ching Siu Tung, but Tsui's own films are very different
- from Ching's. I like Tsui's films best (PEKING OPERA BLUES may be my
- favorite HK film), but SWORDSMAN II really brought me around to Ching's
- camp. Of course, the presence of the divine Brigitte Lin in both films
- helps a lot (BTW, can anyone give me a list of her films?).
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- Ching also did the martial-arts direction for PEKING OPERA BLUES.
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- Are you sure that Ching directed THE RAID? When they showed it at the
- Toronto film festival they credited it to Tsui Hark. (Although they
- also credited CHINESE GHOST STORY III to him, but the film said it was
- by Ching). I am concerned because this film had a "Tsui Hark" plot,
- style and approach -- indeed, in all three respects it reminded me a lot
- of PEKING OPERA BLUES.
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- I recently saw DRAGON INN, a remake of a King Hu film produced by Tsui
- Hark and "presented" by Ching Siu Tung. However, this was directed by
- Raymond Lee (if memory serves...). Very good, especially the
- performances (Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung and Brigitte Lin).
- Unfortunately, the action scenes were perfunctory and usually
- unconvincing.
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- daniel
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