Period Film Movies

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	Movie Name Country Release Year
	Sons Of Good Earth Hong Kong 1965 King Hu (Director, Actor, Writer) Han Ying-Chieh (Action Director, Actor) Shaw Brothers (Production Company) Peter Chen Ho Betty Loh Tih Lee Kwan Tien Feng Chen Yan-Yan Fan Mei-Sheng Chang Pei-Shan Ku Feng Lau Kar-Leung Ching Gong (Writer) Solid debut from one of cinema's masters (Monday, April 24, 2006)
	Temple Of The Red Lotus Hong Kong 1965 Hsu Tseng-Hung (Director) Shaw Brothers (Production Company) Jimmy Wang Yu Chin Ping Ivy Ling Po Lo Lieh Tien Feng Lin Jing Kao Pao-Shu Lee Wan-Chung Chen Hung-Lieh Helen Ma Ku Feng Lau Kar-Leung Yuen Wo-Ping Tang Chia Shen Chiang (Writer) Wang Yung-Lung (Cinematographer) Eddie H. Wang (Soundtrack) Wang Fu-Ling (Soundtrack) Not quite as impressive as I remembered, but still pretty cool (Sunday, June 19, 2022) Highly recommended (Saturday, April 5, 2003)
	The Twin Swords Hong Kong 1965 Hsu Tseng-Hung (Director) Shaw Brothers (Production Company) Jimmy Wang Yu Chin Ping Ivy Ling Po Petrina Fung Bo-Bo Lo Lieh Tien Feng Lin Jing Kao Pao-Shu Ku Feng Ching Miao Fung Ngai Lee Wan-Chung Wu Ma Shen Chiang (Writer) Wang Yung-Lung (Cinematographer) Wang Fu-Ling (Soundtrack) Basically Temple Of The Red Lotus Part 2 (Tuesday, June 21, 2022)
	The Love Eterne Hong Kong 1963 Li Han-Hsiang (Director) Shaw Brothers (Production Company) Betty Loh Tih Ivy Ling Po Yam Kit Lee Kwan Ching Miao Ou-Yang Sha-Fei Yeung Chi-Hing Guess I don't like Huangmei Opera! (Monday, January 19, 2004)
	Enchanting Shadow Hong Kong 1960 Li Han-Hsiang (Director) Shaw Brothers (Production Company) Zhao Lei Betty Loh Tih Yeung Chi-Hing Lee Kwan The original Chinese Ghost Story (Monday, January 19, 2004)
	The Hidden Fortress Japan 1958 Akira Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Toshiro Mifune Minoru Chiaki Kamatari Fujiwara Susumu Fujita Takashi Shimura Misa Uehara Eiko Miyoshi Ryûzô Kikushima (Writer) Hideo Oguni (Writer) Shinobu Hashimoto (Writer) Masaru Satô (Soundtrack) Kazuo Yamazaki (Cinematographer) Beautifully filmed (Sunday, November 14, 2021)
	Throne Of Blood Japan 1957 Akira Kurosawa (Director) Toshiro Mifune Isuzu Yamada Takashi Shimura Akira Kubo Yoichi Tachikawa Minoru Chiaki Asakazu Nakai (Cinematographer) Kurosawa's interpretation of Macbeth (Friday, January 4, 2013)
	Samurai III: Duel At Ganryu Island Japan 1956 Hiroshi Inagaki (Director, Writer) Toshiro Mifune Koji Tsuruta Mariko Okada Kaoru Yachigusa Michiko Saga Takashi Shimura Minoru Chiaki Solid conclusion to the trilogy (Sunday, September 20, 2020)
	Samurai II: Duel At Ichijoji Temple Japan 1955 Hiroshi Inagaki (Director, Writer) Toshiro Mifune Koji Tsuruta Mariko Okada Kaoru Yachigusa Michiyo Kogure Mitsuko Mito Kuroemon Onoe Eiko Miyoshi Jun Yasumoto (Cinematographer) The way of women is to love (Saturday, August 15, 2020)
	Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto Japan 1954 Hiroshi Inagaki (Director) Toshiro Mifune Rentarô Mikuni Kuroemon Onoe Kaoru Yachigusa Mariko Okada Mitsuko Mito Eiko Miyoshi Jun Yasumoto (Cinematographer) One of the classic samurai films (Sunday, August 9, 2020)