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    • A Touch of Zen (Chinese: 俠女; pinyin: Xiá Nǚ; lit. 'Chivalrous woman') is a 1971 wuxia film written, co-edited and directed by King Hu. Its screenplay is based on a classic Chinese story "Xianü" in the book Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling. The film is set in the Ming dynasty under the dominance of eunuchs and explores a variety of themes incl… See more

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    GenreAction · Adventure · Drama · Thriller
    Directed byKing Hu
    Written bySongling Pu
    Plot

    In a remote mountain village in Ming China, Gu Sheng-tsai is a well-meaning but unambitious scholar and painter, with a tendency towards being clumsy and ineffectual. A stranger, Ouyang Nian, arrives in to… See more

    Cast

    • Hsu Feng as Yang Hui-zhen (楊惠貞), the main protagonist, a female knight-errant.
    • Shih Chun as Gu Sheng-tsai (顧省齋; Gù Shěngzhāi), a scholar and painter who later involves in Jianghu.… See more

    Production

    A Touch of Zen was shot in Taiwan by King Hu and was funded by Taiwanese production company Union Film Company. In his book on the film, Stephen Teo suggested that the film has roots in Hong Kong cinema, … See more

    Themes

    The function of knight-errantry alludes to civic values (wen) and martial conducts (wu) in the discourse, arising reflections of experiences and justice beyond dichotomies between wen and wu, good and evil. The director Hu … See more

    Reception

    A Touch of Zen failed at the box-office when it was released in two parts in Taiwan in 1970 and 1971. The film only ran one week in the cinema and failed because of its themes of ambiguous sexuality and feminist se… See more

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    A Touch of Zen: Directed by King Hu. With Feng Hsu, Chun Shih, Ying Bai, Peng Tien. A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in …

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    • Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
    • Director: King Hu
    • Release Date: 1971-11-18

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    Jul 20, 2016 · In his staggeringly ambitious masterwork A Touch of Zen, Chinese filmmaker King Hu imbues dynamic scenes of combat with balletic grace and audacious stylistic experimentation.

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    Ku Shen Chai (Chun Shih), an unmotivated artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is shaken from his comfortable rut by the arrival of beautiful and mysterious Yang...

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    A TOUCH OF ZEN (Xia nu) by King Hu depicts the journey of Yang, a fugitive noblewoman in disguise who seeks refuge in a remote, and allegedly haunted, village.

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    A Touch of Zen (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] - amazon.com

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