
THE ECSTATIC CINEMA OF TONY CHING SIUTUNGBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonTony Ching Siutung (b. 1953) started out as an actor and stuntman, working in movies in the late 1960s and 1970s he moved into television as martial arts coordinator, in the late 1970s and thru the 1980s (where on several historical TV series) he moved up to directing movies with 1983s Duel To the Death. This book is fully illustrated in colour. Tony Ching Siutungs two signature works are probably A Chinese Ghost Story and The Swordsman 2. Critically, those two films (and their movie series, the Chinese Ghost Story series and the Swordsman series) have garnered the highest criticial accolades (and they were big hits financially), and The Swordsman 2 has been the subject of numerous analyses of genderbending issues in cinema. The sight of Brigitte Lin in drag and later fooling around with Jet Li as a woman seems to drive film critics googoo. Tony Ching Siutung has won awards for the action choreography for The Witch From Nepal, Shaolin Soccer, New Dragon Gate Inn, Hero and The Swordsman. Like the other famous action directors in Hong Kong cinema (such as Yuen Wooping, Sammo Hung, Corey Yuen and Yuen Bun), Tony Ching Siutung has worked with every single star in Hong Kong, every producer, every cameraman, designer, stylist, costumier, etc, and probably every stuntman and stuntwoman. Ching Siutung had provided action direction for Tsui Hark, Johnnie To, John Woo, Wong Jing, Ringo Lam, Zhang Yimou,...
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THE ECSTATIC CINEMA OF TONY CHING SIUTUNGBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonTony Ching Siutung (b. 1953) started out as an actor and stuntman, working in movies in the late 1960s and 1970s he moved into television as martial arts coordinator, in the late 1970s and thru the 1980s (where on several historical TV series) he moved up to directing movies with 1983s Duel To the Death. This book is fully illustrated in colour. Tony Ching Siutungs two signature works are probably A Chinese Ghost Story and The Swordsman 2. Critically, those two films (and their movie series, the Chinese Ghost Story series and the Swordsman series) have garnered the highest criticial accolades (and they were big hits financially), and The Swordsman 2 has been the subject of numerous analyses of genderbending issues in cinema. The sight of Brigitte Lin in drag and later fooling around with Jet Li as a woman seems to drive film critics googoo. Tony Ching Siutung has won awards for the action choreography for The Witch From Nepal, Shaolin Soccer, New Dragon Gate Inn, Hero and The Swordsman. Like the other famous action directors in Hong Kong cinema (such as Yuen Wooping, Sammo Hung, Corey Yuen and Yuen Bun), Tony Ching Siutung has worked with every single star in Hong Kong, every producer, every cameraman, designer, stylist, costumier, etc, and probably every stuntman and stuntwoman. Ching Siutung had provided action direction for Tsui Hark, Johnnie To, John Woo, Wong Jing, Ringo Lam, Zhang Yimou,...
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