Member KyFi Posted October 14, 2014 Member Share Posted October 14, 2014 Sorry if this has already been posted, but I didn't see it here---nice one earlier this month in Bangkok Post: http://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/film/435642/kung-fu-master-of-shaw-brothers-golden-era-still-shines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member teako170 Posted October 14, 2014 Member Share Posted October 14, 2014 I just saw that and came over here to see if anyone had posted. Here's a second interview he did .... http://www.nationmultimedia.com/life/Back-with-a-vengeance-30244692.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Shaolivevil Posted October 14, 2014 Member Share Posted October 14, 2014 Great interviews. I'm always glad to hear David Chaing is doing well. He always had a great attitude about the film business even when the landscape has drastically changed on so many levels since his start almost 50 years ago. Always the consumate professional... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member teako170 Posted October 14, 2014 Member Share Posted October 14, 2014 Meeting a legend ... who speaks Thai?? ?v=NdO9EJ3x-YQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted October 15, 2014 Member Share Posted October 15, 2014 Thanks for all of the above, interviews, pictures, even the Thai interview. What a lot of memories they bring back. I was a big fan of his back then, even joining the David Chiang Fan Club, run by a fan in Manchester UK. In the first interview David Chiang mentions the Chow Yun-fat film, From Vegas to Macau, but his IMDB page doesn't list that movie, and I don't remember seeing him in it. He is listed in the cast for Kung Fu Jungle, Donnie Yen's new movie. Maybe he plays one of the HK martial arts masters who gets murdered by the serial killer. From the Youtube interview above, there's a link to this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q7N325qBbPw with 1:15 to 11:20 consisting of David Chiang interview, old photos, and SB movie clips, in Thai and Chinese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator KUNG FU BOB Posted October 15, 2014 Administrator Share Posted October 15, 2014 Great thread! Big thanks to everyone that posted the links and photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Iron Boat Posted October 16, 2014 Member Share Posted October 16, 2014 Nice interview, I am a Chiang fan, I got a big when reading one of his favorites is New One Armed Swordsman, one of my favorites as well, pretty sure I put it in that old top ten thread we did years ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member HyperDrive Posted October 17, 2014 Member Share Posted October 17, 2014 Awesome stuff. Thanks for posting. Of course he talks about Vengeance, which hasn't appeared here in the US yet. I also noticed in the Bangkok Post article: Earlier this week, Chiang was in town to promote Celestial Classic Movies' October line-up of four of his films — The Heroic Ones (1970), The Generation Gap (1973), The New One-Armed Swordsman (1971) and Vengeance (1970). The films will be on air at 8pm on every Saturday of October, starting tomorrow. The Celestial Classic channel can be picked up on TOT iptv 262 and CTH 78. That says something about these films when a cable channel brings him to Thailand to promote its October lineup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member KyFi Posted October 17, 2014 Author Member Share Posted October 17, 2014 Vengeance is my favorite David Chiang movie. Although he was great in the early swordplay movies, I don't think he quite had the physique or martial arts to really be in the top tier of pure kung fu stars (in the Shaolin-style period pieces). But a movie like Vengeance was tailor-made for him, IMO---no other Shaw actor would have been as good in that one. It was nice to read in that interview that he thought so much of Peter Cushing. I believe I had read somewhere before that Peter and he really got on well together during 7 Golden Vampires, and it's nice to see David confirm that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Secret Executioner Posted October 17, 2014 Member Share Posted October 17, 2014 He certainly still looks great, judging by the photos posted by teako. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShawAngela Posted October 17, 2014 Member Share Posted October 17, 2014 As a big fan of his, I love all his movies and I confirm that he was great in Vengeance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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