The sword of the yellow tiger
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| German title | The sword of the yellow tiger |
| Original title | 新 獨臂 刀 |
| Country of production | Hong Kong |
| original language | Mandarin |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Chang Cheh |
| script | Ni Kuang |
| production | Runme Shaw |
| music | Chen Yung Yu |
| camera | Ting Hsiung Kuo |
| cut | Kung Mu-To |
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The New One-Armed Swordsman ( Chinese 新獨臂刀 , Pinyin Xin Du Bì Dao , English New One-Armed Swordsman ) is a martial arts film from the production of Shaw Brothers , directed by Chang Cheh from 1971. The David Chiang and Ti Lung play the leading roles . The film was the first of the genre to be shown successfully in German cinemas and is still cult today.
action
The young, talented swordsman Lei Li gets into a fight with the much more experienced fencing master Lung, the master of the tiger castle, which he loses. As a result of an oath, the young man cuts off his right arm and vows never to fight again. He withdraws and works in an inn, where he is mocked by the guests, but also finds great love in Pa Hsiao, the blacksmith's daughter. Finally, a young swordsman named Feng comes to the area who wants to get to the bottom of the crimes that are becoming increasingly rampant in the country. He befriends Lei Li, but finally, against his advice, goes to the Tiger Castle, where he suspects the origin of the crimes and is killed by Master Lung after a long, bloody fight.
Lei Li then swears revenge and storms the tiger castle alone, killing all the men in it. Finally there is a final duel between him and Lung and Lei Li succeeds in outwitting and defeating the enemy. Pa Hsiao arrives and the two of them leave the tiger castle filled with corpses together.
synchronization
The German dubbing was based on a dialogue book by Til Kiwe under his dialogue direction on behalf of FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH in Munich.
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Lei Li | David Chiang | Elmar Wepper |
| Feng Chun-Chieh | Ti Lung | Christian Brückner |
| Pa Hsiao | Li Ching | Eva Kinsky |
| Lung I-Chih | Ku Feng | Christian Marshal |
| Chen Chun-nan | Chen Hsing | Fred Maire |
| Pa, the farrier | Shen Lao | Otto Preuss |
| Ching, the host | Wang Ching Ho | Paul Friedrichs |
| Guests | Hu Wei | Horst Sachtleben |
| Lan Wei Lieh | Bruno W. Pantel | |
| Lin Shing governor | Chin Chun | |
| Lung's gun bearer | Tang Yen Tsam | Hannes Gromball |
| Wu | Cheng Kang Yeh | |
| Chin I. | Lei Cheng | Til Kiwe |
| Ambushed | Manfred Seipold | |
| First messenger | Kuang-Yu Wang | Hartmut Neugebauer |
| First leopard | Wang Chung | |
| Second messenger | Huang Pei Chi | Gernot Duda |
| Second leopard | Liu Kang | |
| teller | Klaus Kindler |
Remarks
It is a remake or a continuation of the films The One-Armed Swordsman and The Return Of The One-Armed Swordsman from the 1960s with Jimmy Wang Yu in the lead role. The production came about at the height of the career of the two actors David Chiang and Ti Lung, also known as Chang Cheh's "Deadly Duo". The film set new standards in many ways, such as: B. also from a technical point of view. The final showdown between David Chiang and Ku Feng is legendary. Similar elements can be found in many films today.
The FSK released the film in January 1973 from the age of 16. The argument put forward was that young people of this age enjoyed the acrobatics of the fights and were able to recognize them as completely unrealistic, which is why brutalization was excluded. However, the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Social Affairs successfully appealed to the Legal Affairs Committee and achieved that the film was only released from the age of 18.
In 2011 , director Peter Chan made a remake of the film Dragon (also known as "Wu Xia"), with Takeshi Kaneshiro and Donnie Yen in the lead roles .
The sword of the yellow tiger was released on DVD and Blu-ray in 2012 .
criticism
- “The film is rightly treated as a great Shaw epic. This film, which set standards in terms of combat film, cemented the fame of its director and its two main actors for eternity. "
- “The fights are still quite simple, but they offer a lot of splatter elements… and the story of honor, friendship and revenge is also very simple, but lives off the acting and the charisma of the main actors. If you get involved in the film and ignore the sometimes bad exaggerations in the fights (according to the motto 'one blow, two deaths'), you will still get a good Eastern that is one of the great classics. "
“The film that was lost in the wave of Hong Kong productions is now one of the classics of the genre. A production shot exclusively in the studio of extremely stylized artificiality with at times almost surreal ideas that soften the brutal plot a little. "
Web links
- The New One-Armed Swordsman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Kniep: “No youth release!” Film censorship in West Germany 1949 - 1990 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, p. 252
- ↑ Shaw Brothers Reloaded , accessed December 5, 2010
- ↑ cf. Entry on the website of asianfilmweb.de, accessed on December 5, 2010
- Jump up ↑ The Sword of the Yellow Tiger. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .