The Unofficial Biography of the Flying Fox ( Chinese к ), also known as Legend of the Fox, is a 1980 Hong Kong feature film made by director and screenwriter Zhang Che . A film adaptation of the novel by Jin Yong .
| Unofficial Biography of the Flying Fox | |
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| whale. Trade 飛狐外傳 , Pinyin : Fēi Hú Wài Zhuàn Legend of the fox | |
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| Genre | action movie drama |
| Producer | Zhang che |
| Producer | Shao Yifu |
| Author script | Zhang che |
| Operator | Chou Waihei |
| Composer | Eddie van |
| Film company | Shaw brothers |
| Duration | 129 min |
| Fees | 1 790 217 HK $ [1] |
| A country |  Hong Kong |
| Tongue | putonghua |
| Year | 1980 |
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Content
Story
Hu Fei is the son of the famous swordsman Hu Idao. Both his mother and father die soon after his birth. As an adult, Faye learns the truth from his uncle Ping Sy about who is responsible for the death of his parents. The guy realizes that there are two swordsmen involved in this, and that he must face them in order to get answers from them. Hu Fei's adventures lead him to the territory of the poisonous clan, where he meets a girl Cheng Linsu, who turns out to be a specialist in various types of poisons and antidotes, and is forced to get along with her uncle and his students, members of the clan. Linsu becomes Fei's ally.
Cast
- The main
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- - Tian Guinong
- Cho Zhongwan - Nanh Lan
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- Lu Feng -
- - wife of Hu Idao
- - Cheng Linsu
- Won Lik - Shi Wanchen
- Minor
- Yu Taiping - Yan Ji
- Lai Yaukhin - Pin Sy
- Siu Yuk - Shang Baozhen
- Lam Chithai - Tianlong School Student
- Lau Fonsai - Liu Hezhen
- Tony Tham - Jiang Teshan
- Chow Macklay - Muzhun Jingyue
- Lyon Chihong - Xue Que
[2]
Box office fees
The film was released on the big screens of Hong Kong on November 15, 1980 [3] . For eleven days of movie theater rental, the film earned 1,790,217 HK $ [1] .
Reaction
The authors of The Encyclopedia of Martial Arts Movies write that “the plot is rather confusing, especially when using flashbacks inside flashbacks, but it’s interesting, and the martial arts are good” [4] . A cityonfire.com reviewer criticizes the actors for playing roles (in particular, why Jiang Sheng plays the main villain and Lu Feng the “good” guy), expresses dissatisfaction with the fighting scenes, pointing to their small number and poor combination of the “poisonous” acrobatic style and the sword [5] . The critic Boris Khokhlov, who represents the site HKCinema.ru, sees a clear separation of the film into two, the first of which the film critic declares to be a “serious” action movie “from poisonous”, and the second he calls “a wonderful whisker-tale,” and both, from his point of view, “ pleasantly complement each other ” [6] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 1980 香港 票房 | 中国 电影 票房 排行榜 (Chinese) . BoxOfficeCn .
- ↑ 飛狐外傳 (1980) (Chinese) . Hong Kong Movie DataBase .
- ↑ 飛狐外傳 Legend of the fox (Chinese) . Hong Kong Film Archive.
- ↑ Bill Palmer, Karen Palmer, Ric Meyers. The Encyclopedia of Martial Arts Movies. - Scarecrow Press, 1995. - P. 207. - ISBN 978-146-167-275-3 .
- ↑ JJ Bona. Legend of the Fox (1980) Review . cityonfire.com (January 27, 2011). Date of treatment April 7, 2018. Archived March 19, 2019.
- ↑ Khokhlov, Boris The Legend of the Fox . HKCinema.ru (December 19, 2013). Date of treatment April 7, 2018. Archived March 19, 2019.
Links
- An Unofficial Biography of a Flying Fox on the Internet Movie Database (Retrieved July 19, 2019)
- An Unofficial Biography of a Flying Fox on the Hong Kong Movie DataBase