Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 113min

A wide, endless field. Hundreds of horses and thousands of extras fill the screen. The music is equally grand and the cameras move about as if they′ re flying. This is the battle scene from the first co-production between Shin Fil...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 107min

The King Myojang is a violent, belligerent tyrant that destroys neighboring countries. His third daughter, Princess Myosun converts to Buddhism and helps prisoners of war escape. wient told that her ailing father will only live if...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 85min

Schoolmistress is a film starring Li Ching, the Shaw Brothers Princess,′ who was the most popular Hong Kong actress in Korea after Susanna was released in 1967. This co-production is remarkable in two senses: first, it revives th...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 87min

Made via co-production with locations provided by Korea, Duel to the Death is the theatrical debut of Ching Siu Tung, a master of Hong Kong martial arts films such A Chinese Ghost Story(1987) and The Legend of the Swordsman(1991)...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 115min

Near the point of death, a resistance soldier tells his wife where some gold is hidden. The wife is sent to a camp for female POWS, where blatant acts of cruelty and sexual abuse are rampant. An escape attempt is made by resistanc...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 83min

A resistance force that wants to see the Song Dynasty resurrected has gathered around Moon Sung-ju. When he′s arrested by Won Dynasty loyalist Daewonsa, the others plot his rescue operation. They manage to get inside the prison wi...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 97min

Hand of Death, an authentic martial arts film with a revenge plot, is the second Korea-Hong Kong co-production from John Woo, after The Dragon Tamers. Shin was once an apprentice of the Shaolin Temple but betrayed it by standing ...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 93min

In the 1970s, Golden Harvest attempted co-productions with Korean film companies in their search for the next Bruce Lee. Their search took them to the nation of taekwondo and turned up various beautiful outdoor locations and histo...

Korean Cinema Retrospective

• Korea,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 100min

Since 1963, when Shin Films started co-producing with Shaw Brothers, actors and directors from Shin Films also started to forge careers in Hong Kong, in the form of providing property loans, up until the mid-1970s. The Black Hair ...