A Touch of Zen Comments

  • Annabelle 2023-01-20 18:51:36

    Ms. Xu Feng is so...

  • Orie 2023-01-20 03:39:37

    As described by Mr. Fei Nei: If Director Hu was born a few years later, he would definitely be happy to use digital photography to look up at the whole film. From Longmen, joys and sorrows to chivalrous women, Hu's obsession with exquisite space (perhaps influenced by Li Hanxiang?) and his obsession with gorgeous scheduling in space have become more and more intense. That's it for two strokes. The detachment of the four-star setting for the set is nothing short of the pinnacle of Commonwealth...

  • Arvid 2023-01-12 23:35:01

    The character movement, light and shadow effects and composition of the Bamboo Forest Opera are all top-notch. About an hour ago, there was a sense of suspense about the identities and reasons of Miss Yang and Ouyang Nian, and there were so many stories gathered in the small temple in the deserted village. The portrayal of Gu Scholar's image is also quite appropriate, full of mouth and prose, not very ambitious but looking forward to showing it. It's a little delayed in the...

  • Nelle 2023-01-07 09:32:48

    200 minutes of ginseng!

  • Madyson 2022-12-29 01:58:24

    2.5. Move and move. night photography. Illuminated design. Duel in the bamboo forest, Xu Feng flew down. The use of natural scenery, sound effects, and music interspersed with fighting clips. The type is reversed (the ghost of Liaozhai in the front, and then enter the East Factory where Hu Jinquan most often shoots to chase and kill Zhongliang). Split screen. Scholar's strategy, holding a feather fan and laughing. The last 30 minutes of drag on theatrical structure is blinding... the negative....

  • Kirk 2022-12-04 09:04:57

    In his heyday, Jinquan Hu had the ability to surround his films with the aura of a great tradition. Watching his films, the audience can get a glimpse of a classical China - the paintings, operas and music in his films are all like this. Even the dramatic structure of Hu's films is as well-proportioned as a Ming Dynasty vase. Hu Jinquan has always been an energetic artist, and his films either captivate audiences or fall apart like a broken bottle. But when they captivate the audience, they...

  • Gertrude 2022-11-30 20:56:19

    I can't control my mind wandering while watching, I'll come back to...

  • Eloisa 2022-11-15 04:35:16

    I have been misled all the time, thinking that the heroine is a vixen or something. The film is 3 hours long, and the plot is linked to each other, and the suspense is well made. The bamboo forest fight is really a pioneer, 30 years ahead of Zhang Yimou. Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon hit the bamboo forest, so it should be a reference....

  • Darrion 2022-11-14 16:42:13

    Hu Jinquan's aesthetic foundation is vividly reflected in the whole film, integrating opera elements into martial arts. The creation of atmosphere and artistic conception is meticulously crafted, and the scene of the battle of Bamboo Forest has a novel design, smooth movement of mirrors, and exquisite splicing, which has become a classic imitated by future generations. The problem is that the rhythm seems to be too slow now, and it takes patience to watch the...

  • Eliane 2022-11-02 14:34:13

    There's nothing wrong with it other than being too long. The so-called creation, the so-called artistic conception, the so-called martial arts, this is the Chinese style. The clip, really...

Extended Reading

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.