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The Shaw Bros Co-Productions Filmography


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Yes it was.

Someone wanted Man From Hong Kong info... like what? It's f'ing AWESOME. What more do you need to know? Was the theme song awesome as well? Judge for yourself:

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Thousand years old fox Korean coproduction 1971

Madame White Snake 1956 Toho coproduction very good print though it's an old movie

The story of Qin Xianglian Cathay coproduction 1964 superb movie, with Li Lihua, Peter Yang Kwan and a very young Jackie Chan...

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Thousand years old fox Korean coproduction 1971

Can't seem to find any evidence of this being anything other than a pure Korean movie imported by Shaw Bros. If anyone has any proof that Shaw were a co-producer please post it.

Also, I'm starting the co-productions list from 1965, the martial arts era. Unless there's overwhelming support to include older films.

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Black Hair (1974) aka Dark Hair

Produced by Shin / Korea

Recently watched this movie and was surprised to see the entire thing looks like it was filmed at Shaws Movietown. I would be surprised if this was not a Shaw / Shin co-production, but I couldn't find anything where Shaw Brothers name was linked to the film.

Directed by Korean Shaw Brothers director Chang Il-Ho (Jang Il Ho)

Starring Korean Shaw regulars:

James Nam Gung-Fan (Nam Suk-hoon)

Chen Feng-Chen (Jin Bong-jin)

Also features these Korean actors and cinematographer that were all in the Shaw / Shin co-production from the same year, The Ghost Lovers:

Joo Young

Go Seon-Ae

Lee Hwang-Ja

Ko Sang-mi

Choi Seung-Woo (cinematographer)

And featuring Shaw regulars:

Chen Ping

Ku Feng

Wong Ching-Ho

As well as many recognizable Shaw extras

Links:

http://test.kmdb.or.kr/eng/md_basic.asp?nation=K&p_dataid=02764

http://www.kmdb.or.kr/vod/vod_basic.asp?nation=K&p_dataid=02764

http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=11329

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Black Hair (1974) aka Dark Hair

Produced by Shin / Korea

Recently watched this movie and was surprised to see the entire thing looks like it was filmed at Shaws Movietown. I would be surprised if this was not a Shaw / Shin co-production, but I couldn't find anything where Shaw Brothers name was linked to the film.

Directed by Korean Shaw Brothers director Chang Il-Ho (Jang Il Ho)

Starring Korean Shaw regulars:

James Nam Gung-Fan (Nam Suk-hoon)

Chen Feng-Chen (Jin Bong-jin)

Also features these Korean actors and cinematographer that were all in the Shaw / Shin co-production from the same year, The Ghost Lovers:

Joo Young

Go Seon-Ae

Lee Hwang-Ja

Ko Sang-mi

Choi Seung-Woo (cinematographer)

And featuring Shaw regulars:

Chen Ping

Ku Feng

Wong Ching-Ho

As well as many recognizable Shaw extras

Links:

http://test.kmdb.or.kr/eng/md_basic.asp?nation=K&p_dataid=02764

http://www.kmdb.or.kr/vod/vod_basic.asp?nation=K&p_dataid=02764

http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=11329

Just had the chance to see Night of the Devil Bride (1975) and it's clear that the director, Chang Il Ho, shot this and Black Hair at the same time. Black Hair uses Korean leads and Night of the Devil Bride uses Lo Lieh and Chan Shen, otherwise the rest of the footage is identical.

The scenes with the lead actors would have been shot using one set of actors, then re-shot right after using the other set. Most of the scenes in between that just have supporting actors in them were only shot once and are the same in both films, although I noticed a few scenes seemed to have minor differences, such as camera angles.

The version of Night of the Devil Bride I saw seems to be cut so I don't know if that was the way it was originally released in HK, but because of that, there are differences in the story. Black Hair has a Korean dub and Night of the Devil Bride has a Mandarin dub.

Shaws had done this previously with three Lo Wei films, Angel With the Iron Fists / Nora Zain: Ajen Wanita 001, Angel Strikes Back / Jefri Zain: Jurang Bahaya and Summons to Death / Jefri Zain: Bayangan Ajal. The films were shot with two sets of leads, one set for the Hong Kong market and one set for the Malay market. Other than the scenes with the leads, the rest of the films are identical except for the dubs.

Night of the Devil Bride with Lo Lieh:

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Black Hair with James Nam Gung Fan:

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Great information! That is a practice that was quite popular when sound films came into existence in the 1930s, but died out after dubbing was more widespread. For example the two different versions of Dracula (1931) with the Spanish version being shot at night. Shaw Brothers used so many old style Hollywood practices that it is fascinating.

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