Tag: Shaw Brothers

• Chang Cheh’s Five Shaolin Masters: A Favorite of None

  

  It’s not one of Chang’s best, that’s for sure.

  Joshua Polanski

  May 21, 2023

  Cinema, Reviews

  Alexander Fu Sheng, Chang Cheh, Chi Kuan Chun, Chinese Cinema, David Chiang / David Chiang Tai-wai, Five Shaolin Masters, Meng Fei, Shaw Brothers, Ti Lung / Tommy Tam Fu-wing

• The One-Armed Swordsman and Its Interesting Complications

  

  As one of the most important wuxia ever made, I came to The One-Armed Swordsman (1967) for Shaw Brothers production quality and one-armed fighting but that’s not what made me fall in love with this film. The One-Armed Swordsman is also an exceptionally romantic four-way love “triangle.”  One of the earlier films by director Chang…

  Joshua Polanski

  April 22, 2023

  Cinema, Reviews

  Angela Pan, Chang Cheh, Chinese Cinema, Jimmy Wang Yu, Kuang Han-lu, Lisa Chiao Chiao, Shaw Brothers, Tang Ti, The One-Armed Swordsman, Tien Feng, Yeung Chi-hing, Yuen Chang-sam