A Touch of Zen
Summary:
An influential martial arts film and an acknowledged influence on Ang Lee's amazing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, King Hu's A Touch of Zen opens with young scholar Ku Shen-chai working at his portraiture stand in a small frontier town. He lives with his nagging mother in a supposedly haunted, rundown house at the edge of the abandoned Ching Liu estate. One day, a s... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Hsu Feng - (Yang)
Pai Ying - (Shih)
Tien Peng - (Ou-Yang)
Roy Chiao
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Review:
One of the finest Chinese-language films ever produced, King Hu's sprawling epic is at once the apogee of the Hong Kong marital arts films and a meditation on human nature. Structured in a manner more akin to Chinese opera than to the Aristotelian three-act structure, Hu's plot line doesn't unfold so much as it evolves. Hu envi... Continue >>
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