Guest pressureworld Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Hello to everyone I have a low number of IVL shaw films among them Sun Chung's Judgement of an Assassin which I loved, im trying to beef up my collection an wanted to know what other shaw sword play films are this good thanks for any help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Brigadier Chow Posted April 5, 2007 Member Share Posted April 5, 2007 Here are some reccomendations: Legend of the Bat Bat Without Wings Bastard Swordsman 1&2 Lady Assassin Secret Service of the Imperial Court Full Moon Scimitar Soul Of The Sword (Ti Lung) New Tales of the Flying Fox Swordsman & The Enchantress Return of the Sentimental Swordsman The Roving Swordsman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tino Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Deadly Breaking Sword Soul of the Sword Secret Service of the Imperial Court Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vengeanceofhumanlanterns Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Have Sword Will Travel The Duel King Cat Human Lanterns Death Valley Bells Of Death Bat Without Wings Legend Of The Fox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peringaten Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Get more Sun Chung wuxia! Shaw's best martial director imo... Avenging Eagle, Human Lanterns, Devil's Mirror and Rendezvous With Death are a good start - all have a slight edge on Judgement Of An Assassin, at least I reckon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wostry Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Agreed. His PROUD YOUTH is a superlative adaptation of Jin Yong's Xiao Jiang Hu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ironfistedmonk2003 Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Yep check out Sun Chung, Proud Youth is a corker, Avenging Eagle is his masterpiece and Human Lanterns is just one of the best films ever made Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iron Boat Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Some great films Avenging Eagle Proud Youth New One Armed Swordsman Killer Constable Soul of the Sword Death Duel Magic Blade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jmungus Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 strikes me as odd theres a thread entitled "judgement of an assassin" and in it, theres lists of some random personal faves of fandomers :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pressureworld Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 list are what i needed, i don't want to waste money and figured you guys would know what sword films were as good as judgement of an assassin, which I felt was great. I want to thank everyone so far for all the help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tino Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Jmungus, use caps lock (located on left side of keyboard). Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jmungus Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Jmungus, use caps lock (located on left side of keyboard). Thank you! never !! :eek (when im on the www... yall aint worth the effort :b ) :hat to add s/t productive to this thread for a change, imo its impossible to recommend anything else, but... well... the other sun chung gems ( www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=549 , first get devils mirror, then work your way up starting from JOAA, and keep a lookout for "to kill a mastermind", its s'posed to come soon). im mesmerized by the flawless combination of smart, entertaining choreo and progressive photography workin together, as well as sun chungs always better than solid pacing of the story and his fresh approach to kind of recreating the jiang hu world and its (ever recurring) archetypical protagonists. NO OTHER DIRECTOR* can deliver the same; LKL did on a few occassions; but i love SB`s other main directors` pictures for other reasons. some of the venoms flicks come close to it, provided that CC had had a halfway decent script and had been inspired and motived higher than average (talkin bout his later phase) [*caps lock action dedicated to the gung fu brother tino] ps: how is "lady exterminator" ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sevenhooks Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Don't forget of course, TO KILL A MASTERMIND. Which stands up with the best of anything else Sun Chung has ever done. Hopefully Celestial will get around to releasing it one of these years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peringaten Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 What says consensus on his Revenge Of The Corpse? Forget speculation as to whether it'll see the Celestial light... Are we talking too rare an artifact to have been seen on the circuit unremastered? Someone tell me things about this flick... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sevenhooks Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 I have a mini review in one of my old Fantagraphic/Jade Screen back issues I believe. I'll see if I can't "dig" it up. From everything I can recall however, there's never been anything too glowing said about it. As to whether or not it's ever surfaced on tape, I don't recall. I'm pretty sure thay anything I've ever read about the film came as a result of theatrical screenings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BKarza Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 Revenge of the Corpse aka Bloodthirsty Dead is... I would put it at the very bottom of my SC list along with Kid with a Tattoo. It's more of a horror/revenge/ghost-ish type movie. It has one fight. That's not really a problem but it doesn't contain any of the SC hot stuff. It doesn't have that visual aspect that he always brought. It's rather flat. Pai Piao is good and engaging for the time that he is onscreen. Matter of fact, all of the stars play their roles very well. It's the movie itself that just doesn't do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peringaten Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 Interesting stuff... thanks. To be honest my interest is peaked on any Sun Chung, so I'd want to check it out regardless, but it's nice to get a little background and opinion. Just out of interest, where did you see this BKarza? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BKarza Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 I have it on tape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iron Boat Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Check out the Bloody Escape to, an early Sun Chung Kung Fu film starring Chen Kuan Tai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jmungus Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 Check out the Bloody Escape i found that one to be a bit of a letdown. afai understand, its a sun chung/chang cheh co-direction, and it does have CC written all over it. cant point out anything specific right now, but the BE just didnt feel right for me. we re still talkin 'quite decent movie' here, not that theres any misunderstanding; besides, ive only seen this once, so a definitive opinion will only be available after the rewatch; but one thing`s sure: theres very little if any 'trademark sun chung' in BE and imo its not on par with any of either CC`s or SC`s really good ones (let alone their masterpieces). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iron Boat Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Yeah, thats why I said check it out, for the curiosity of it....to me Bloody Escape its the Blueprint for Avenging Eagle.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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