A Touch of Zen 1971 - Search
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    Content ratingNot Rated
    GenreAction · Adventure · Drama · Thriller
    Directed byKing Hu
    Written bySongling Pu · King Hu
    Plot

    In a remote mountain village in Ming China, Gu Sheng-zhai is a well-meaning but unambitious scholar and painter, with a tendency towards being clumsy and ineffectual. A stranger, Ouyang Nian, arrives in to… See more

    Cast

    Hsu Feng as Yang Hui-zhen (楊惠貞), the main protagonist, a female knight-errant.
    • Shih Chun [zh] as Gu Sheng-zhai (顧省齋), a scholar and painter who later becomes involved in Jianghu.… See more

    Production

    A Touch of Zen was shot in Taiwan by King Hu and was funded by Taiwanese production company Union Film Company. In his book on the film, Stephen Teo suggested that the film has roots in Hong Kong cinema, … See more

    Themes

    The function of knight-errantry alludes to civic values (wen) and martial conducts (wu) in the discourse, arising reflections of experiences and justice beyond dichotomies between wen and wu, good and evil. The director Hu … See more

    Reception

    A Touch of Zen failed at the box-office when it was released in two parts in Taiwan in 1970 and 1971. The film only ran one week in the cinema and failed because of its themes of ambiguous sexuality and feminist se… See more

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