A Touch of Zen (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 3 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 19, 2016
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Feng Hsu & Roy Chiao | |
| Directed by | King Hu | |
| Screenwriting by | King Hu |
Entertainment Reviews:
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A widely acclaimed martial arts film (1971) by Hong Kong's King Hu, one of the handful of directors to have worked in the genre with artistic ambitions.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 8/10 --
...pure, ravishing spectacle.
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PopMatters
Rating: 3/4 --
With the first shots of Zen we are plunged into a nature marked by eerie majesty.
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Film Comment Magazine
King Hu's romantic chivalry adventure is a masterpiece of Chinese cinema, a magnificent epic with grand battles fought with the grace of a ballet with swords, and the most significant cinematic inspiration for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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Seanax.com
Rating: 5/5 --
Epic in scope, meditative in tone and exhilarating in execution, A Touch of Zen is a seminal moment in film history.
CineVue
Rating: 3.5/4 --
a true game-changer in the way it infused the wuxia (martial arts) genre with both epic scale and spiritual intensity
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Q Network Film Desk
...the film's supernatural machinery evaporates only to be replaced with a magical kind of Buddhist spiritualism (the titular 'touch of Zen') that reconfigures everything that has preceded into religio-philosophical allegory.
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Little White Lies
Product Description:
A Hong Kong and Wu Xia Pian (martial arts fantasy) classic, A TOUCH OF ZEN is not only one of the East's best loved films, but is also the basis for the hit CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON. Set during the Ming Dynasty, the film stars Hsu Feng as Yang, the daughter of a government official who, along with the rest of her family besides herself, were murdered when her father uncovered a plot to overthrow the emperor. Escaping with two friends, Yang takes refuge with a scholar and the two plan to make a stand against the army of the evil eunuch Hsu, who wishes to murder her before she can reveal his plot to the emperor.
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- UPC: 715515181914
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