Cinema Hong Kong: Sword Fighting
Filmmakers on Filmmaking
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50m
Cinema Hong Kong: Sword Fighting, a documentary on the history of the wuxia genre and Shaw Brothers’ contributions to it, produced by Celestial Pictures in 2003 and featuring interviews with Cheng Pei-pei, Gordon Liu, Lau Kar-leung, John Woo, Sammo Hung, Kara Hui, David Chiang and others.
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