Cold Blade (1970)
龍沐香
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.
What is Cold Blade about?
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. Cold Blade is a Action, Adventure, History movie, released on 1970-12-31, runtime 86 minutes.
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Directed by
Chor Yuen
Cast
- Melinda Chen as Lung Mu-hsiang
- Kao Yuan as Ling Tien-hsiao
- Cheung Ban as Chai Chun-wu
- Kong San as Liu Chin
- Paul Chu Kong as Han Chang
- Li Ying as Old Hermit
- Tsung Yu
- Lau Kong
- Lee Man-Tai
- Chen Kuan-tai
- Tung Choi-Bo
- Chow Siu-Loi
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