Member falkor Posted November 17, 2008 Member Share Posted November 17, 2008 I've been trying to ID this for about 6 years... can anyone put me out of my misery or at least offer some clues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 I'll have a go later... but in the meantime can I have Bombay's address so I can kick his arse!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member falkor Posted November 17, 2008 Author Member Share Posted November 17, 2008 Thanks mate! Yeah, these "Bombay" cards were treated so badly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member dbtb Posted November 17, 2008 Member Share Posted November 17, 2008 nothing came up in hkmdb but it translates as The Ghost Staff. Looks like there was some english on the bottom that got cut off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member falkor Posted November 17, 2008 Author Member Share Posted November 17, 2008 Did you manage to interpret the title characters? Any chance of pasting them here, so I can try some searches in other database? It looks like a Korean film and some of the films at KMDB have Chinese character titles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member falkor Posted November 17, 2008 Author Member Share Posted November 17, 2008 nt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member dbtb Posted November 17, 2008 Member Share Posted November 17, 2008 They had this about one of the actors Nan Kong-Yuan Mandarin: Nan Kong-Yuan Aliases: Nankun Yuan Actor The Last Woman of Shang (1964) ... Chi Fa Special Agent X-7 A (1967) Four Seasons (1968) Rainbow in My Heart (1977) The title is 鬼幽棒 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member falkor Posted November 17, 2008 Author Member Share Posted November 17, 2008 Nice work! That's a good start... I'm going to do some investigating.... BRB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member falkor Posted November 17, 2008 Author Member Share Posted November 17, 2008 That title is obscure and its definitely Korean based just from that one actor. Are any of the other actors in the HKMDB? It might be the film called "The Great Swordsman" in KMDB, which is currently down, and has a poster that could be used for comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member dbtb Posted November 18, 2008 Member Share Posted November 18, 2008 I looked up a couple of the others but nothing came up which leads me to think you're right about it being Korean., although the movie co. is in HK according to the poster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Gaijin84 Posted November 18, 2008 Member Share Posted November 18, 2008 The actor second from the left is Yau Lee (尤莉) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Pretty sure you're right about The Great Swordsman. http://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/md_basic.asp?nation=K&p_dataid=01645 James Nam, Li Dae-Yeob, Heo Jang-Gang, and Choe Seong-Ho are all listed on that lobby. Also Yoon Jeong-Hee, I think. Some names I've found tricky to match - could they be Chinese? Eg. Yu Li, who's listed at the HKMDB in a couple of early 70s swordplays. http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=20211&display_set=eng EDIT: I'm starting to wonder if those two swordplays aren't also co-productions? Maybe Yu Li is Korean after all? I'm wondering if The Great Swordsman is a HK co-production? This Hong Kong company 安達 (An Da or On Dat) is credited on the lobby card. The only film they have listed at the HKFA is another HK-Korean co-prod The Stormy Sun (mistakenly ID'd there as Taiwanese). Problem is without any sort of listing at the HKFA or HKMDB it looks less likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member falkor Posted November 18, 2008 Author Member Share Posted November 18, 2008 James Nam, Li Dae-Yeob, Heo Jang-Gang, and Choe Seong-Ho are all listed on that lobby. Also Yoon Jeong-Hee, I think. As just cast? Some names I've found tricky to match - could they be Chinese? Eg. Yu Li, who's listed at the HKMDB in a couple of early 70s swordplays. http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtm...isplay_set=eng EDIT: I'm starting to wonder if those two swordplays aren't also co-productions? Maybe Yu Li is Korean after all? I'll have to take a look at that Quick Swordsman; don't have the other film. Problem is without any sort of listing at the HKFA or HKMDB it looks less likely. One would have expected it at HKFA at least. But why the Chinese lobby card of a Korean film? Apart from IFD I'm wondering if there's any other examples. Definitely seems like the same movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Gaijin84 Posted November 18, 2008 Member Share Posted November 18, 2008 2 items, no idea if they are helpful or not, because I'm starting to get confused myself 1)I'd definitely say that's the same spear in both the lobby card and poster at least. 2) In the description for "Great Swordsman" on KMDb they mention the lead character only has one arm... that guy with the spear on the lobby card looks like he could only have one arm, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member falkor Posted November 18, 2008 Author Member Share Posted November 18, 2008 Plus check out the yellow hat on one guy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Gaijin84 Posted November 18, 2008 Member Share Posted November 18, 2008 is it possible that this is a series of films? From the description it almost sounds like Zatoichi... "After they find the enemy, Cheon-hu gets even with him and goes on a long journey without destination again." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 As just cast? Cast members, yes. But why the Chinese lobby card of a Korean film? Yeah, I was wondering. Can't be many pure Korean films got released in Hong Kong. Shaws released Thousand Years Fox but that's probably in the minority. Could be that On Dat (HK) is a distributor but it's unlikely since they're so unknown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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