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“Fairies in China”
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At Snow Pavilion, Xueting Ni writes about how Chinese Xian became fairies
in European thought. “The modern idea of the fairy, buzzing round the
bottom of y...
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Thanks Todd for helping me share these! It's a shame that none of Josephine Siao's "Jane Bond" movies are available. She probably made just as many as Connie Chan.
I've seen The Professionals, which sort of fits in the "Jane Bond" category, and, as I recall, it was kind of underwhelming. But I'd love to get the chance to see some of her crazier-looking costumed capers like this one and Maiden Thief.
I've not seen The Professionals, but from the screen caps on HKMDB it looks like Patrick Tse plays the hero in that one, with Josephine as support.
There's a film magazine for Josephine's The Flying Red Rose (1967) up for auction on eBay right now. And if you're ever in Hong Kong, it appears that the HK Film Archive has an access copy of the film in their resource center.
Thanks for posting these! I just tracked down a stellar old poster for the Thai release of Blue Falcon... it's absolutely gorgeous. Between that and these stills, I'm cursing the slow growth of film preservation yet again.
Poster (among a stack of sweet Toho / Nikkatsu Noir ones) at http://asiaobscura.com/2013/01/gorgeous-old-thai-movie-posters.html
Thanks, Dean! If it were any other country but Thailand, I'd hold out hope for a print of Blue Falcon to turn up there, but their record of film preservation is much worse than HK's. Still, you never know...
I encourage those who follow that link to scroll down to the bottom to see Thai posters for, of all things, Times Square, Cronenberg's Rabid and Supersonic Man.
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