The assassin character was a staple of Chang Cheh’s wuxia pian since the 1967 film starring Jimmy Wang Yu. Among the most intriguing assassins in Chang’s filmography are the morally just killers known as The Rambler. These are Jian Nan (David Chiang) in The Duel...
The Shaw Brothers Studio is considered the most venerable in South China, if for no other reason than being in continuous operation for more than eighty years. Starting out as Unique Film Productions in 1925, the company has always been controlled by the Shaw Brothers,...
In the beginning, there were five. Each with a deadly style. They schemed for a treasure. Word on the street, the Venoms are alive. They pulled a Keyser Soze on you muthasuckas; just like the devil, they made you think they didn't exist, that they...
Read the original article by Evan Saathoff here. Have you ever sat around and thought “Boy, I sure would like to watch the almost 800 Shaw Brothers movies out there, but I can’t because they’re not all compiled in one place?” We all have. Well worry...
Star director Chang Cheh was on the way out at Shaw Bros. when he put together this epic mic drop, a feast of fight choreography and a stone-cold legendary production, spoken of in hushed tones by even the most seen-it-all kung-fu aficionados. A quick rundown:...
In the 1970s, cinema was rapidly diversifying, with movies of vastly different budgets and tones – not to mention other cultures – making their way to the United States. It was no longer just the art movies from the different countries that came over; their...
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For Lunar New Year, we wanted to do another Shaw Brothers-focused article like the one we did last year and the biggest request was a sort of definitive "best Shaw Brothers films" list. While doing a top twenty list about the iconic Hong Kong company...
September 17, 2015 - Celestial Pictures congratulates its partner, Tencent, for establishing Tencent Pictures and the successful manifestation of a transmedia entertainment content strategy to develop super intellectual property (IP). As the owner of the Shaw Brothers library, one of the world’s largest Chinese film libraries containing...
Lifestyle media brand PROHBTD and Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures, in association with The Spellbound Group, have partnered to produce a video remix of “Kung Fu Cannabis”, involving the hottest Shaw Brothers’ legendary martial arts movies. The video received the remix treatment from famed Barcelona-based remixer...