The Sword (1971) - Remastered

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 31 Jan 2007, 11:38

Coming from Crash Cinema:

Looks good: http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/filmID.540 ... etails.htm

I think LD has seen this

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 31 Jan 2007, 12:44

hey,

not to be confused with the Patrick Tam movie from 1980-81, starring Adam Cheng and Norman Tsui. This is reportedly a Taiwanese indie made in 69 or 70, starring Jimmy Wang Yu.

Still sounds like a cool line of movies where you rightly shouldn't accept that the elements are in tip-top shape.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 31 Jan 2007, 12:49

Ah, thanks

Now I'm not sure which movie LD was talking about

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 31 Jan 2007, 14:45

The floating heads on the cover look like they're too modern

Plus the language can't be Cantonese - 1) If it's a Taiwanese film 2) It was made in 1969-70 (released in 1971), so it would be Mandarin, no?

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 31 Jan 2007, 15:52

I saw the Adam Cheng one. Good memory there, grim.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 31 Jan 2007, 15:56

Danke.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 31 Jan 2007, 15:58

hey,

the release is 2 months away or so and sound specs are unconfirmed at this point. For an indie of the era, have a sneaky feeling no Canto track was ever prepared and certainly not later either. Feel free to correct me.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 31 Jan 2007, 16:17

Well it does say "Unconfirmed" under the language, I'd be very surprised if it was Cantonese TBH

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 31 Jan 2007, 16:29

hey,

regarding the head shots on the cover, Wang Yu is certainly not modern as his popular screen persona the One-Armed Swordsman carried that beardy look. Probably did face some preassure to look like the character in subsequent films but Jimmy wasn't a stranger to carry over the one-armed aspect as evident by One-Armed Boxer, Master of The Flying Guillotine and so on.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 31 Jan 2007, 16:32

Fair enough

What I (probably) meant was that I've seen many actors/actresses with that sort of look in later movies so it didn't seem "old"...

Erm.. OK that didnt make a lot of sense

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 31 Jan 2007, 16:44

hey,

focus on the essentials of this release, grim.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 01 Feb 2007, 00:14

Some of the older Mandarin films had Cantonese dubs produced for video.

But if these are coming from film reels it should be fine.