A Touch of Zen Comments

  • Everett 2023-09-20 07:32:26

    The English name is too accurate. Very well made. I haven't seen a portrait like that in years. . . General Shi is...

  • Alberto 2023-09-17 04:28:36

    Evening photography should be borrowed from onibaba Casting is a bit of a...

  • Cassandre 2023-09-04 18:50:00

    It seems to be introduced by the teacher in the Chinese film history class, very Hu...

  • Letha 2023-08-15 15:34:58

    [Wuxia Film Festival 4K Restoration Edition] There are so many surprises that some roughness and problems in the design of the mirror movement and the rhythm of the story are less conspicuous. Surprisingly, there are a lot of interesting psychological analysis parts. The filming of Bamboo Forest is really amazing, and the negative effect at the end is very good. Hu Jinquan will still play like this. Compared with the chivalrous girl with the Chinese title, the English title A Touch of Zen is...

  • Annette 2023-08-13 15:52:23

    The ending is a bit of a...

  • Jonas 2023-08-12 05:17:21

    While watching this three-hour film, my heart was constantly being torn apart by all kinds of terrifying details and grand ideas. What is this feeling of laughter and touching? Is it giving one star or one hundred? What about the star! So, after watching the movie, I finally watched the original novel "Chivalrous Girl" in Liaozhai by Pu Songling, and realized that this movie is actually telling us: how to use various vulgar routines to destroy the original...

  • Adolphus 2023-08-02 19:22:05

    The artistic conception is far away, and every piece of paper and painting is very...

  • Ken 2023-08-02 11:50:06

    Xu Anhua said Hu Jinquan - he is not tall, but his shadow is very...

  • Jayda 2023-07-30 13:08:07

    The CCTV version of "Swordsman" has always pursued this effect, using a lot of bamboo forests, actors jumping up and down, and interspersed with scenes of spiders knotting webs, but unfortunately it was copied and pasted from "Microscopic...

  • Sonny 2023-07-28 18:37:29

    Although there are still many flaws and redundancies in the play, the true oriental aesthetics presented in the film, which is neither the other nor the spectacle, is fascinating. This is an aesthetic taste that truly belongs to the East, and the arrangement of light and shadow is always full of poetry and Zen. The combination of empty shots and montages mobilizes the stillness and movement scattered in the space. The actors' opera-like performance style and the frequently-appearing opera music...

Extended Reading
  • Kimberly 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    Pioneer of the Times

    This year's Cannes Classics section presents a restored version of the masterwork, four decades after its first appearance at Cannes. Pierre Rissient, who discovered the film at the time, took care of this touching story, which was later voted as "the greatest Chinese-language film of all time". In...

  • Maude 2022-04-19 09:02:44

    The ultimate in martial arts, a kind of elegance, a ray of Zen...

    After watching this epic martial arts drama, only two words can be used to describe it. I checked the original book, and it turned out to be from a famous family~ Although the action scenes are not as gorgeous as the modern martial arts movies, but the martial arts action has been melted from the...

A Touch of Zen quotes

  • Ku Shen Chai: Have you seen Miss Yang, the lady who lives here?

    General Shih Wen-chiao: No, I'm blind.

    Ku Shen Chai: Forgive me.

    General Shih Wen-chiao: Miss Yang and her mother are gone.

    Ku Shen Chai: She said you should run for your life too. Do you know where she went?

    General Shih Wen-chiao: No.

    Ku Shen Chai: I have to find her!

    [Shih pulls out a sword as two soldiers fly down from the sky and attack, but are quickly killed in a few brief strokes of the sword]

    Ku Shen Chai: Mr. Shih, Mr. Shih, who are you really?

    General Shih Wen-chiao: I'm not blind, that's for sure.