Member panku Posted July 16, 2010 Member Share Posted July 16, 2010 Great fight scene with Lau Kar Leung's father Lau Cham and a few other familiar (although much younger!) faces. nC7m-4vXfTM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member fiol Posted July 17, 2010 Member Share Posted July 17, 2010 nice one! i hope they all get released sooner or later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Fang Shih-yu Posted July 17, 2010 Member Share Posted July 17, 2010 i hope they all get released sooner or later! I thought some of these b&w Wong Fei Hung movies would've seen a legit DVD release by now, but this does not seem to be the case! Is it because they are b&w, and the number of people interested in these may be even smaller than that of those who like Shaws? Looking at the clip, the creakiness of it is no turn-off at all! It's a nice slice of Asian film history! Maybe the rights for these are in a heck of a muddle or something.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member FrankBolte Posted July 17, 2010 Member Share Posted July 17, 2010 most of the original reels are lost,many of them have been aired on Hongkong TV but Im not sure what source they are using.. I have about 40 of them but mostly recorded from TV... at the moment I work with a friend on the subtitles of one of them...make a fan DVD heres some nice footage of lau jaam..early shapes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member fiol Posted July 17, 2010 Member Share Posted July 17, 2010 i just found only 1 of his movies rlsed in HK (on vcd no subs, cantonese)... the others=none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member FrankBolte Posted July 17, 2010 Member Share Posted July 17, 2010 i just found only 1 of his movies rlsed in HK (on vcd no subs, cantonese)... the others=none. there are a few VCDs,maybe 3 or 4,but like u said they all have no subtitles... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member fiol Posted July 17, 2010 Member Share Posted July 17, 2010 there are a few VCDs,maybe 3 or 4,but like u said they all have no subtitles... well i can live w/o subs xP can u provide me the titles ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Asmo Posted July 18, 2010 Moderator Share Posted July 18, 2010 at the moment I work with a friend on the subtitles of one of them...make a fan DVD Excellent! I'll look forward to this, always wanted to see one of the old Wong Fei Hung films with subs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Fang Shih-yu Posted July 18, 2010 Member Share Posted July 18, 2010 I second Asmo's remark! Let us know when this is done, please! Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Karlos Posted July 18, 2010 Moderator Share Posted July 18, 2010 I seem to recall Bey Logan saying back in the 90s that the old WFH films appeared regularly on HKTV, usually in the middle of the night, for some reason! The only other clips I've ever seen were on the Media Asia DVDs od Tsui Hark's OUATIC trilogy. Apart from that - nothing. Such a shame, as the films are an incredibly important piece of MA film history. Would love to see one (or more!) of these old classics with subs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member panku Posted July 19, 2010 Author Member Share Posted July 19, 2010 Heres a clip from an earlier film with another great fight scene. Originally posted in March in the reviews section by pakua7. Lots of stuff gets broken. Hong Kong Cinemagic has it listed as "Huang Feihong Goes To A Birthday Party At Guanshan": Wong Fei-hung’s Lion Dance vs the Golden Dragon (1956) This is from part 2 of the entire movie. Here is the entire film: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member FrankBolte Posted July 20, 2010 Member Share Posted July 20, 2010 shapes from 1949:xd: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member fiol Posted July 20, 2010 Member Share Posted July 20, 2010 shapes from 1949:xd: fantastic clip! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member panku Posted July 20, 2010 Author Member Share Posted July 20, 2010 shapes from 1949:xd: Thanks for posting this and the other early clips. I would also like to see these with subs. The elbow in the stomach in the most recent clip you posted is the first hint at comedy I've seen in these older film clips. Is that a regular feature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator KUNG FU BOB Posted July 20, 2010 Administrator Share Posted July 20, 2010 I seem to recall Bey Logan saying back in the 90s that the old WFH films appeared regularly on HKTV, usually in the middle of the night, for some reason! The only other clips I've ever seen were on the Media Asia DVDs od Tsui Hark's OUATIC trilogy. Yeah, that's the only reason I didn't sell off or give away my Media Asia DVDs after I got the HKLs versions. Those few minutes of footage are too cool to let go of. Would love to see one (or more!) of these old classics with subs! Frankie was telling me that he and another guy that are both very familiar with Hung Gar, kung fu in general, and the older phrases and manners of speech of the language are doing a really faithful translation for the subtitles. I'm so extremely psyched for this! No doubt he'll let us know when he's finished it and it's ready. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member FrankBolte Posted July 20, 2010 Member Share Posted July 20, 2010 I have seen about 40 of them and they are not all good..I prefer the earlier ones,thats when they always had gung fu masters there playing some sets or were helping for the fighting scenes...i noticed that the movies starting from the early 60s are more on talking... Specially the movies which featured Lau Jaam were better,he was in them till the late 50s..I think then he became sick and unfortunately died in 1963... We are working on the translation for the story of wong fei hung part 1,in this movie they tell a lot about hung gar history,show some nice sets and good fights..interesting for everybody, I guess hung gar people and gung fu movie lovers... P'an ku,those kind of small gags I noticed in almost all of the films.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Fang Shih-yu Posted August 3, 2010 Member Share Posted August 3, 2010 Kwan Tak-hing's part as Wong Fei hung in The Magnificent Butcher was spell-binding! The moment that old man touched his toes like he did in his first scene, I said, "I love this guy!":smile: While I await the older Wong film getting subs, I'm definitely getting a copy of The Skyhawk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member irongut Posted August 3, 2010 Member Share Posted August 3, 2010 wow, thanks for the footage! Real Hung Kuen in action! You really made my day! Nice to see traditional kung fu in films as opposed to the acrobatic performance enhanced version. Hope to see more! -P shapes from 1949:xd: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Killer Meteor Posted September 6, 2012 Member Share Posted September 6, 2012 The music in the clip in the OP is from John Huston's Moby Dick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member FrankBolte Posted September 6, 2012 Member Share Posted September 6, 2012 2 complete movies: trouble at the lantern festival http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VonxEgQrxk and this is the subtitled one...after I noticed it was in the internet as torrents etc. I put it on youtube: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member jalvarez82 Posted September 10, 2012 Member Share Posted September 10, 2012 @ 2:11 of the King Of The Lion Dance clip.. Did she stab dude in his ass?! That was awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member FrankBolte Posted September 11, 2012 Member Share Posted September 11, 2012 some new footage of Lau Jaam(刘湛) turned up...here are some highlights with the new footage first.. great hung gar kuen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member FrankBolte Posted December 5, 2012 Member Share Posted December 5, 2012 for those who like to watch the old ones..heres one complete WFH movie from 1970,still in B/W.. many familar faces.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member peringaten Posted December 5, 2012 Member Share Posted December 5, 2012 Awesome, will watch proper later, but is that Chen Kuan Tai I'm seeing in there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Omni Dragon Posted December 5, 2012 Member Share Posted December 5, 2012 Awesome, will watch proper later, but is that Chen Kuan Tai I'm seeing in there? Definitely looks like him also on hkmdb he's listed: http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=5148&display_set=eng Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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