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Type.................: Movie
File Validation......: SHA-256 HASH
Title................:The Enchanted Chamber, "狐俠" "Hu xia " (Original title)
Studio...............: Shaw Brothers
Actors...............: Margaret Hsing Hui, Chin Feng, Lily Li Li-Li, Lee Kwan, Goo Man-Chung, Pang Pang, Tung Li, Chiu Sam-Yin, Fang Mian
Directors............: Sit Kwan
Writers..............: Yun Yi (screenplay)
Genre................: Fantasy, Foreign, Romance
Release Date.........: 28 November 1968 (Hong Kong)
Duration.............: 01:53:37 (per actual main feature)
Rated................: Not Rated
Cover(s) Included....: No
Language.............: Chinese (Mandarin)
Subtitles............: English*, Chinese* (*=embedded)
Resolution...........: 480p @ 16x9
Source...............:Ripped from the Singapore ZiiEagle Box with a capture card. Quality similar to VHS releases. Compared to IVL DVD releases I would grade it 5-5.5/10. This is the ORIGINAL, UNCUT Chinese print. EXTREMELY RARE!!
IMDb Information.....: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075861/
IMDb Rating..........: 5.3
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Encoding/Bitrate Information
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Format : MPEG-4
Overall bit rate : 1 285 kb/s
Video
Format : AVC
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 8 frames
Bit rate : 1 147 kb/s
Width : 696 pixels
Height : 358 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.728
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Writing library : x264 core 157 r2935 545de2f
Audio
Format : AAC LC
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Title : Stereo
Default : Yes
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Reviews/Synopsis
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Please go to the following website for detailed information:
https://www.silveremulsion.com/2015/01/02/the-enchanted-chamber-1968/?doing_wp_cron=1602804573.4320030212402343750000
https://killerkungfu.com/the-enchanted-chamber-1968/
While Celestial remastered the majority of the Shaw Brothers catalog, they didn’t do them all. Some prints were beyond repair, some missing entirely, some had rights issues, and for some they didn’t believe there was enough interest in them. And sadly The Enchanted Chamber is one such film.
Thankfully private collectors have preserved a good number of these and this is one of them. The version we have isn’t fantastic, but it’s more than watchable, and it’s certainly better than nothing.
The Enchanted Chamber is based on a story from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling, notable because it was first published way back in 1740 and is thought to have been written in the mid-1600s. And the same story was also the source for the popular A Chinese Ghost Story.
It follows a scholar, played by Chin Feng, in his task of collecting a debt owed to his father. Along the way he meets mischievous fox fairy, Margaret Hsing Hui, and vengeful ghost, Lily Li. When it turns out the debtor, played by Wong Ching Ho, is up to no good, the three team up to bring him down.
But it’s so much more than that. We get action, fantasy, comedy, betrayal, revenge, songs, possession, and a taoist priest doing his thing. While this isn’t the first Shaw Brothers film to take the kitchen sink approach, it is the first to do such a good job of blending all its elements. Nothing seems out of place or forced, everything naturally flows from the story.
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