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Type.................: Movie
File Validation......: MD5 & SHA-256 HASH
Title................: One Armed Magic Nun, Studio...............: Kei Lun (Qilin) Film Company
Actors...............: Lui Kei (1) Suet Nei (1) Lee Kui-On Sek Kin (1) Kong Man-Sing Lin Jing (1) Sze-Ma Wah-Lung Yung Yuk-Yi Lam Tin Simon Yuen Siu-Tin Ng Yan-Chi (1) Wah Wan-Fung Lau Ching (1) Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
Directors............: Chan Lit-Ban
Writers..............: Sze-To On
Genre................: Action | Wuxia
Release Date.........: 11/19/1969 Duration.............: 01:30:58 (per actual main feature)
Rated................: Not Rated Cover(s) Included....: Yes
Language.............: Chinese (mandarin)
Subtitles............: English (custom soft code & burned in)
Resolution...........: 480p @ 4x3
Source...............: Retail R3 DVD (bootleg transfer from uncut 1st Gen VHS)
Extremely rare print of one od the last old-style Cantonese costume swordplay films ever made, marking the end of an era.
The last film that Suet Nei worked on for Chan Lit-bun was 1969′s THE ONE ARMED MAGIC NUN. Compared to the best Shaw studio films (and keeping in mind that Bruce Lee would release THE BIG BOSS two years later), MAGIC NUN strikes me as too much of a throwback to the wuxia films made earlier in the decade – the cinematography too static, the costumes and make-up too cheesy – but the feisty female roles played by Suet Nei, who has been ensnared in an evil spell and forced to do the bidding of a sorceress, and Lin Jing, as the titular Magic Nun, are fun to watch.
Chan Lit-bun formed a production company in Taiwan for a couple of years, but eventually he, like his longtime leading lady, retired from the film industry.
