Wong Fei-hong anime?
OgreMag DG
Who else here thinks an animated version of Once Upon a Time in China (or an
anime attempt at a HK-style kung-fu with magic and/or flying film) would be
awesome? Especially if Gainax did it. You could have some truly kick-ass and
ridiculously unbelivable martial arts in an animated film. A chinese-themed
anime isn't that much of a stretch, anyone hear of Ranma? Has anyone seen the
recent animated version of Chinese Ghost Story produced by Tsui Hark? I've
heard some good things about it, is it avalible from Tai Seng or anyone yet? I
think the animated CGS was done in Hong Kong, possibly with cel painting and
stuff like that done in S. Korea. It's the only anime i've ever heard of from
Hong Kong. Should this be on alt.asian-movies rather than an anime ng?
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Patrick Drazen
OgreMag DG wrote:
>
> Who else here thinks an animated version of Once Upon a Time in China (or an
> anime attempt at a HK-style kung-fu with magic and/or flying film) would be
> awesome? Especially if Gainax did it. You could have some truly kick-ass and
> ridiculously unbelivable martial arts in an animated film.
>
> -The Deadly Bees, MST3K
>
Gods, it purports to be some legendary Chinese battle. I can't vouch
for that, but there's one fighter among the gods who looks suspiciously
like Bruce Lee, which I suspect is how the thing ended up here in the
first place. It looks like it was done in the 70s when Lee was in
vogue, and, like most Mainland Chinese art of that period, it looks like
Art By Committee--you can see about five different directors' hands in
this one. I'd have to go back and check the credits (such as they are),
but it was produced in Shianghai, and one of the voice-dubbers was
Marshall Efron (if you know his work, you can tell that without
credits).
IMHO, anime is able to take you to impossible places to see impossible
things; Escaflowne is a great example. Watching the mecha warrior morph
into a mecha dragon, or watching Van Fanel sprout wings, is a lot more
impressive to me than, let's face it, rotoscoping Jackie Chan. If you
want good fight scenes, I recommend the duel between Ghost Sweeper Reiko
Mikami and a spider/samurai. But animating chop-socky films would just
be reinventing the wheel.
Patrick Drazen
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Jang Choe
On 02 Jun 1998 03:06:11 GMT, ogre...@aol.com (OgreMag DG) wrote:
>Who else here thinks an animated version of Once Upon a Time in China (or an
>anime attempt at a HK-style kung-fu with magic and/or flying film) would be
>awesome?
Not me. I liked that movie cuz of Jet Li. I mean an anime version
might be okay, but one reason why I liked OUATIC is because it's live
action. I'm sure anime can do a lot more since it's animation, but
being able to pull stuff off in live action makes it more appealing
(even though they do use wires).
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alex c. lau wrote:
>
> OgreMag DG <ogre...@aol.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone seen the
> >recent animated version of Chinese Ghost Story produced by Tsui Hark? I've
> >heard some good things about it, is it avalible from Tai Seng or anyone yet?
>
> lately. :) It's the same basic story as the live action "Chinese Ghost
> Story", and although Tsui Hark produced and wrote it, the animation
> director was Tetsuya Endo.
>
> Since I saw it on VCD, I'd expect you should be able to get it on VHS as
> well.
It's also available on DVD. It comes with Mandarin and Cantonese audio
tracks, and with English and Chinese subtitles. The price is kinda steep
for a DVD, though. J&R Music World in NY has it for $44.95. From the
packaging, it looks like an imported title, so maybe that explains the
price.
Geir Friestad
OgreMag DG <ogre...@aol.com> wrote:
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| Has anyone seen the recent animated version of Chinese Ghost Story
| produced by Tsui Hark? I've heard some good things about it,
It's OK. There's a very uneven bland of traditional cel animation and
computer graphics, the story is just *yet another* rehash of the original,
and the movie is incredibly frantic and lacking in the moody and atmospheric
moments that made the original so good.
| is it avalible from Tai Seng or anyone yet?
Dunno about Tai Seng, but I know Blue Laser has the DVD for sale
(http://www.bluelaser.com/).
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> |
> | Has anyone seen the recent animated version of Chinese Ghost Story
> | produced by Tsui Hark? I've heard some good things about it,
>
Also, I don't think it's about Wong Fei Hong. Wong Fei Hong's more a
Martial Artist than a ghost story hero.
Not too great an anime, skip it if you must.
OgreMag DG
> Also, I don't think it's about Wong Fei Hong. Wong Fei Hong's more a
>Martial Artist than a ghost story hero.
> Not too
No, I was saying that a Wong Fei-hong anime would have potential to be good, I
know he isn't in CGS. I'm going to try to the live-action CGS one of these
days, i've read several rave reviews for it.
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Packrat
>
> No, I was saying that a Wong Fei-hong anime would have potential to be
good, I
> know he isn't in CGS. I'm going to try to the live-action CGS one of
these
> days, i've read several rave reviews for it.
>
> "Santa backwashed in it! I could sell this!"
> -Max, Sam and Max
>
Sorry, misunderstood the thread.
Well about the Wong Fei Hong thing...well, have you seen any of those
movies?
MAJOR exxagerations...I mean REALLY.
It kinda bugged me a bit.
But then again, one man's peach is another's poison.
OgreMag DG
> Well about the Wong Fei Hong thing...well, have you seen any of those
>movies?
> MAJOR exxagerations...I mean REALLY.
> It kinda bugged me a bit.
> But then again, one man's peach is another's poison.
That's why I think something like that would work well as an animated film, you
could have some wicked cool physically impossible kung-fu in something like
that. Make something like Fong Sai Yuk look down-to-earth. Wire-fu movies
seem to be kind of an acquired taste, most of my friends think they're really
"stupid and unrealistic", but I watch them entranced. (At least I have Jackie
Chan to show to the ones who demand "realism) Giant Robo reminds me a little
bit of this type of film. I also think that an anime film similar to a Hong
Kong magic and fantasy film such as Swordsman 2 or Zu: Warriors of the Magic
Mountain would make a good anime film. Some people don't seem to like
wire-flying, but I think it's appropriate to the genre, many period kung-fu
films are based on legends and folk heroes, and wire work gives them that
tall-tale quality, I think.
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