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The Angry River

Original title: Gui nu chuan
  • 19711971
  • 1h 30m
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Lan Tin-lung, master of the Liangyi Castle, calls upon all upright swordsmen to help wipe out the notorious Lunar Sect.Lan Tin-lung, master of the Liangyi Castle, calls upon all upright swordsmen to help wipe out the notorious Lunar Sect.Lan Tin-lung, master of the Liangyi Castle, calls upon all upright swordsmen to help wipe out the notorious Lunar Sect.
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  • Director
    • Feng Huang
  • Writer
    • Feng Huang(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Angela Mao
    • Yuen Kao
    • Ying Bai
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    • Feng Huang
  • Writer
    • Feng Huang(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Angela Mao
    • Yuen Kao
    • Ying Bai
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    • Lan Fengas Lan Feng
    Yuen Kao
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    Ying Bai
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    Shao-Hung Chan
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    Yi-Fei Chang
    Shih-Wei Chen
      Nan Chiang
      Nan Chiang
      Chun Chin
      Chun Chin
        Chia-Chung Chou
        Yi Feng
        Yi Feng
        Ying-Chieh Han
        Ying-Chieh Han
        Chi Hsieh
        Chi Hsieh
        Hsing-Chun Hsu
        Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
        Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
        Ka Ting Lee
        Ka Ting Lee
        Yun-Wu Li
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        7/10
        Beautiful masterpiece of a movie
        Raymond Chow seemed to have the right idea when he formed Golden Harvest, and that is to recruit young new faces to create his movies. In this movie he went to Taiwan to recruit Angela Mao who was a star in their Chinese opera theater. She's barely 20 in this movie with zero movie acting experience. That's a lot of risk to take on his first movie. But he seems to have good eye for talents, and many including Angela goes on to become some of the biggest Hong Kong movie stars.

        Young Jackie Chan stars in this movie as well as his buddy from Peking Opera school days - Sammo Hung. They are billed (way) below Angela Mao in this movie.

        Angela Mao is the daughter of a wealthy local magnate. Her father gets poisoned, and needs a cure from a herb that grows in a valley 1000 miles away. On the way to the valley lies the Angry River that burns everything that tries to cross it.

        The format is classic Hong Kong Kung Fu movie, but there's something very modern about this movie. Perhaps it's because the quality is a notch above in almost all areas of production. It probably wasn't made on a big budget, as Bruce Lee only got $10K for his first appearance on Golden Harvest's movie. Other actors probably made much much less. Compared to now where lead stars often get well above one million Hong Kong dollar, this was the real formative days of Hong Kong cinema.

        This is a beautiful movie, and should be seen in its remastered DVD. Angela Mao is exceptional in her athletic abilities, as well as her martial arts skills, and beauty. She really was the golden harvest for Golden Harvest.

        In this first movie from Golden Harvest, you see the dawn of the new Hong Kong cinema that continues to this day.
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        • Release date
          • May 12, 1971 (Hong Kong)
        • Country of origin
          • Hong Kong
        • Language
          • Mandarin
        • Also known as
          • Gwai nui chuen
        • Production companies
          • Golden Harvest Company
          • Paragon Films Ltd.
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        • Runtime
          1 hour 30 minutes
        • Color
          • Color
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          • Mono
        • Aspect ratio
          • 2.35 : 1

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