Cold Blade (1970)

12/31/1970 (ZH) • 1h 26m

Action, Adventure, History

Overview

Chor Yuen was Gu Long before he started filming Gu Long. The director's first wuxia film, made at Shaws' rival Cathay, finds him relishing in a mode of expression that would later become the signature style of the 'martial-arts suspense thriller' mini-genre. Chor grafts the quasi-psychological stylishness of his Cantonese melodrama onto this actioner, laying on thick the atmosphere by dialling up the fog machine and unleashing the colours from his camera's palette. He also stages his fights in modern dance-like choreography, with moves that are more graceful than ferocious and paused poses that are longer on expressive narcissism than continuity of action. Cold Blade is the quiet beginning of an aesthetic.

Top Billed Cast

Melinda Chen

Lung Mu-hsiang

Kao Yuan

Ling Tien-hsiao

Cheung Ban

Chai Chun-wu

Kong San

Liu Chin

Paul Chu Kong

Han Chang

Li Ying

Old Hermit


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Status

Released

Original Language

Mandarin

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

first mandarin martial arts film by chor yuen

gu long aesthetics

mandarin cinema

cathay martial arts film

ming–qing transition

the manchu conquest of china

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