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Post by galvatron prime on Feb 12, 2015 6:48:29 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 25, 2015 4:27:18 GMT
What's the story all about?
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Post by reinafu on Feb 25, 2015 16:56:44 GMT
Felix Wong and Jimmy Au are two friends. While Jimmy is a rich guy, Felix is a poor guy.
I don't remember exactly how and why it happened, but they fight with some guys and they finally " land " in a secret valley, where they find a kind of secret sect. It seems to me that they fall in love with the same girl, but she prefers Jimmy. The two of them become very good fighters and they are entrusted to be a king's (or a kind of king ?) best men, but while Jimmy is honest, Felix tries to gain all what he can by all means, which later leads to the death of the girl who loved him (or the girl both friends loved ? I watched it so long ago that I don't remember the details of the plot very well, sorry), to the paralysis of Jimmy's legs and finally to his own death.
A very good series, and if someone else here has watched it and has a better memory than mine, feel free to correct me if I mistook myself in the description of the plot.
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Post by reinafu on Feb 25, 2015 16:57:43 GMT
And if I'm not mistaken, the other title of this series is Book of death.
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Post by yenchin on Feb 27, 2015 2:34:20 GMT
According to the description I found it's a dramatized series about the story of Sun Bin and Pang Juan, who both studied under Gui Guzi during the Warring States. I can't type conveniently now so I'll just share the wiki link of Sun Bin and most of the historical/legendary info related to the series could be found there. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Bin
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Post by soengyee on Mar 5, 2015 18:06:37 GMT
Yenchin is in fact correct. It is a wuxia interpretation of Sun Bing and Pang Juan's history. In a nutshell, both start out as good friends, who learn martial art together, fall in love with the same woman, and Pang Juan would eventually turn evil, does a lot of bad deeds and kills off many characters and ultimately leads to Sun Bing's downfall, even causing him to lose his kneecaps and rely on a wheelchair. Mimi Kung plays as Sima Ching,the daughter of Sima Ping a powerful General. At the end after everyone is dead, Sun Bing and Sima Ching have a happy ending after combining forces to kill Pang Juan (even though the latter fights in a wheelchair because he can't walk). Gwai Guk Chi is a powerful Taoist who teaches Sun Bing all his skills, he had many disciples but were all massacred one by one because of Pang Juan. He is one of the few who don't die at the end. This is a more complete cast list
Au Siu Wai - Sun Bing Wong Yat Wah - Pang Juan Kung Chi Yan - Sima Ching, a beautiful maiden whom both men fall for and end up fighting for, knows some martial arts and mistakened that Gwai Guk Chi murdered her father Cheung Yim Foong - Sun Heung, Sun Bing's cousin who falls in love with him and dies for his sake obtaining the mannual Wong Yee Kum - Zhong Li, massacred Sun Bing's entire family under her evil god father's influence, eventually falls for Sun Bing and dies with her evil father at the end, this woman goes through a lot of suffering but none of it was her own fault Wong Wan Choi - Sima Ping, Sima Ching's father who is a powerful general, highly skilled, fakes his own death and pretends to flip sides Bak Ying - Gwai Guk Chi, a powerful sorcerer who is kind and saves everyone from time to time, his major nemesis is Li Yuen who is jealous of him and tries many times to destroy him Lau Dan - Li Yuen, the evil sorcerer who is also powerful and raises Zong Li and teaches her all the wrong methods and forces her to practice evil skills and massacres Sun Bing's entire family Yeung Chak Lam - Sun Bing's uncle Nam Hong - Sun Bing's great aunt, Heung's mother who dies protecting the family secret: the mannual Ng Mei Yee - one of Gwai Guk Chi's servants, highly skilled and dies in Pang Juan's hands Lam Wai San (I didn't know he started out with TVB, his acting was so raw then) - Sun Bing's cousin who is a coward, dies by his own father I believe Tsui Yeun Mei - Sima Ching's good friend and servant who falls in love with Pang Juan, knows some martial arts but dies in Pang Juan's hands and becomes a zombie to do his evil work and eats raw blood Wong Wai Tak Chu Tiet Wor Lung Tin Shang Cheung Ka Shang Lee Kar Shing
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Post by reinafu on Mar 5, 2015 18:25:37 GMT
Thank you for all these informations.
Am I mistaken, or Wong Wai tak is the same actor as Huang Wei De aka Victor Huang ?
If so, he must have began very young if he played in this TVB series.
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Post by yenchin on Mar 9, 2015 22:56:01 GMT
Thank you for all these informations. Am I mistaken, or Wong Wai tak is the same actor as Huang Wei De aka Victor Huang ? If so, he must have began very young if he played in this TVB series. No they're different. The have the same first names but one has 王 as his last name while the other has 黃 Also Victor Huang started working around the year 2000 in Taiwan on this gem:
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Post by reinafu on Mar 10, 2015 18:57:22 GMT
Thanks for the information.
I don't remember if the clip you show is from the series Ching Lung or from the series Soaring, but from what I saw when I browsed the episodes on youtube, these two series are really very good and both Huang Wei De and Huang Xiao Ming (if I'm not mistaken, I don't remember his English firstname) are great in these series.
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Post by yenchin on Mar 10, 2015 23:22:31 GMT
The clip I showed was from Soaring. The other guy I assume you mean Huang Shao Chi (Eric Huang). These series were quite good indeed. Back when Taiwanese series were still about 1 hr per episode
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Post by reinafu on Mar 11, 2015 13:40:07 GMT
Yes, that's the actor I meant.
That's too bad that it's impossible to find these series on dvd format !!
Fortunately there is this guy on youtube who posts these series. Dragon dance seems to be very good too, and it's more than 2h per episode !!
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