Shaw Brothers Kung Fu Mania
Welcome to my celebration of the genius of the Shaw Brothers movie studio! This is an unofficial fan site, not the Shaw Brothers.
November 12, 2006
Heroic Grace II at BAM in Brooklyn. My Young Auntie, Jade Tiger, The New One-Armed Swordsman, Legendary Weapons of China, The Five Venoms, & Dirty Ho.
July15, 2006
HEROIC GRACE 2, the second stage in Shaw Brothers evolution steps up at the Walter Reade theater (up at Lincoln Center). Classic Shaw Brothers martial arts movies showing on the big screen in magnificent new prints. This time around the unmissable flicks are: FIVE VENOMS, MAGIC BLADE, LEGENDARY WEAPONS OF CHINA, DIRTY HO and MY YOUNG AUNTIE.
It's on NOW! ******
While scoping around Yesasia.com I saw this. Looks intriguing.
- Cinema Hong Kong Documentary Series: Kung Fu
- Cinema Hong Kong Documentary Series: Kung Fu, Sword Fighting, Beauties
- Cinema Hong Kong Documentary Series: Sword Fighting
August 10, 2005
Shaw films at BAM is showing Shaw films as we speak!
Click for tix & info
Sept 15th 2004:
Shaw comes to Walter Reade theatre in New York!!!
A Special Event of the 42nd New York Film Festival
Elegance, Passion, and Cold Hard Steel:
A Tribute to Shaw Brothers Studios
Oct 2 - 13, 2004
Sept 5th 2004:
TSUI HARK ANNOUNCES SEVEN SWORDS
Action direction by Liu Chia Liang... need I say more...
July 24, 2004
THe HK Movie Database is going through some changes and updates. So forgive the broken search boxes... I'll fix them when it's settled down over there.
April 7,2003
HKFA exhibition pays tribute to Shaw's galaxy of stars
SUBWAY CINEMA PRESENTS Asian Films Are Go!!! 2003 New York Asian Film Festival
May 15-May 26, 2003 at the Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, @ Second St.)
April 2, 2003
My sympathies to the fans, friends and family of Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing, who died yesterday. The Story from Reuters. You can also go to hkentreview.com for more coverage.
March 23, 2003
The Philadelphia Film Festival is showing Come Drink with Me, Vengance, 36th Chamber of Shaolin, One Armed Swordsman, and Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan.
Rumor has it that the UCLA show will be coming to New York. I'll keep you posted.
Fluff from February 19th:
Shaw Brothers deputy chairperson, Mona Fong Yat-Wah (right), was on hand yesterday as ground was broken in the Tseung Kwan O district on the new Movie City. Scheduled to open in June 2004, the 48,600 square metre movie production centre will house sound stages, sets, cinemas, post-production facilities and recording studios. Shaw Brothers, Shaw Property Holdings and ChinaStar are the main backers of the HK$1 billion mega-project. When the facility was first proposed back in 2001, Mei Ah, Media Asia and a Taiwanese production company were listed as investors. However, those groups have since dropped out due to the downturn in the Hong Kong movie industry.
Jan 27th 2003,
For you lucky few in California or who can make it there for this amazing festival!
UCLA Film and Television Archive & the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in San Francisco present
HEROIC GRACE: THE CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS FILM
Nov. 6, 2002
Click Here for more news concerning Celestial Picture's plans for marketing and sales of the Shaw library.
Nov 3, 2002
Veteran Actor Lo Lieh passed today. He is best known fot the Five fingers of Death and for playing the White Priest, Bai Mei. More information Click Here
Oct 4, 2002:
Celestial Pictures held a press conference yesterday to announce that they have reached a deal with International Group Holdings Ltd. to distribute their Shaw Brothers library of films on DVD and VCD. The first wave of releases will reach Hong Kong store shelves in December -- just in time for Christmas.
ShawCon2002
Join fellow Shaw Brothers/Venoms fanatics and meet Kuo Chu, Lo Mang, Wang Lung Wei and Gordon Liu Chia Hui!
More news on the Shaw movie releases appeared in the NY TImes.
June 23, 2002
The great Chang Cheh, director of my most favorite movies, passed today from pulmonary failure. For more info Click Here
June 11, 2002
Get more News on Liu Chia Liang's New Movie from colourchina.com! Shaw Singapore has an official site! www.shaw.com.sg There's history and current projects etc! Go there!
To inquire about old Shaw films or to ask about licensing etc:
Shaw Brothers (HK) Pte Ltd
Cosmopolitan Productions Co, Ltd
Lot 220, Clearwater Bay
Kowloon, Hong Kong
http://www.shawbrothers.com.hk/
When Shaw stopped making movies in 1983, we ushered in the realm of the Famous Shaw Brothers Subsidiary, TV-B. TVB makes tons of historical soap opera episodes each year, all suspiciously similar to Shaw Brothers kung fu movies. You won't hear e complain about it though. The tradition of lovlies in topknots flying around is continuing!
TVB - to write about tv programming
External Affairs Division
TV City
Clear Water Bay
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2335 2288=20
Fax: (852) 2358 1300
e-mail: tvbpr@tvb.com.hk
Website: http://www.tvb.com.hk/
To write fan mail, send to Talent Subdivision at the above address, put the name of the actor on the address.
2000 Marks the Start of More Movie Making. Shaw plans on doing more films per year.
In 1995, Shaw started making movies again! "Out of the Dark" (1995) starring Stephen Chow and "Loving You" (1995) starring Lau Ching Wan.
Other films followed in 1997 with 'The Hero' starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Yuen Biao, 'The King of Masks' and 'Lifeline' starring Lau Ching Wan and Carmen Lee.
The bar on the left will guide you through the site. The Stars section will take you to a rogues gallery of familiar faces as well as individual pages for many of the Shaw Stars.
The Movie section will give you info on directors and screenshots of several of the films. I want to have a complete listing of Shaw films. I know some of you out there are working on this too. Let me know so we can get together and make it as complete as possible.
The links and books section will help you round out your knowledge on Shaw.