09-26-2020, 10:45 PM
I went on a deep dive seeking The Enchanted Shadow, which is a 1960 version of the same story. All of these have the same title in Chinese and that's the title of the short story that it's based upon, one of Pu Songling's Strange Tales of the Liaozhi.
I only found fragments of TES. I presume that it was uprooted by copyright censors and was only able to piece together the first third or so, which is a shame because it was intriguing to see a Chinese film from the 60s, pre-cultural revolution, so in Mandarin, and since this had no subs (I was searching using the Chinese characters and date) I was please how well I understood it.
Although I confess I got sucked into some weird opera film that I thought was TES but was something else by Betty Loh Ti (a major Chinese staret of her day).
TES had a style to it (it was Chinas submission for Cannes and the Oscars). I knew I had the right one when I heard the therimen music. Betty was a beauty, worthy of the role of the ghost Nie Xiaoqian. The guy who played Ning was way too wimpy. The Taoist sorcerer looked a lot like Wu Ma.
Someday I'd love to see the end.
I only found fragments of TES. I presume that it was uprooted by copyright censors and was only able to piece together the first third or so, which is a shame because it was intriguing to see a Chinese film from the 60s, pre-cultural revolution, so in Mandarin, and since this had no subs (I was searching using the Chinese characters and date) I was please how well I understood it.
Although I confess I got sucked into some weird opera film that I thought was TES but was something else by Betty Loh Ti (a major Chinese staret of her day).
TES had a style to it (it was Chinas submission for Cannes and the Oscars). I knew I had the right one when I heard the therimen music. Betty was a beauty, worthy of the role of the ghost Nie Xiaoqian. The guy who played Ning was way too wimpy. The Taoist sorcerer looked a lot like Wu Ma.
Someday I'd love to see the end.
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