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Cold Blade

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 Cast

  • Melinda Chen

    Melinda Chen

    Lung Mu-hsiang

  • Kao Yuan

    Kao Yuan

    Ling Tien-hsiao

  • Cheung Ban

    Cheung Ban

    Chai Chun-wu

  • Kong San

    Kong San

    Liu Chin

  • Paul Chu Kong

    Paul Chu Kong

    Han Chang

  • Li Ying

    Li Ying

    Old Hermit

  • Tsung Yu

    Tsung Yu

  • Lau Kong

    Lau Kong

  • Lee Man-Tai

    Lee Man-Tai

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.

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