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Post by yenchin on Jul 29, 2018 11:44:59 GMT
i actually got this ep from a freind in america that said he got it from his local chinatown but there was only 1 disc available Sigh, that's what I was afraid of. Currently the David Chiang fan club is still verifying me. Lung Tian Xiang (who hasn't been active on FB since March) is still unreachable. I'm still thinking of what strings to pull. Any other actors/actresses identified in the video?
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Post by reinafu on Jul 29, 2018 17:15:13 GMT
i actually got this ep from a freind in america that said he got it from his local chinatown but there was only 1 disc available Sigh, that's what I was afraid of. Currently the David Chiang fan club is still verifying me. Lung Tian Xiang (who hasn't been active on FB since March) is still unreachable. I'm still thinking of what strings to pull. Any other actors/actresses identified in the video? You had talked about Nancy Yen. Nothing on this side ? Is the Chinese title shown in the pictures I had sent show that this fourth episode is the last one ? If it is, it would explain why there was only one disc available, if all the episodes are on the same disc. How long does this episode last ?
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Post by rdenn on Jul 29, 2018 20:06:35 GMT
45 mins thats all i have
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Post by yenchin on Jul 30, 2018 9:24:35 GMT
Sigh, that's what I was afraid of. Currently the David Chiang fan club is still verifying me. Lung Tian Xiang (who hasn't been active on FB since March) is still unreachable. I'm still thinking of what strings to pull. Any other actors/actresses identified in the video? You had talked about Nancy Yen. Nothing on this side ? Is the Chinese title shown in the pictures I had sent show that this fourth episode is the last one ? If it is, it would explain why there was only one disc available, if all the episodes are on the same disc. How long does this episode last ?
Nancy Yen seems to have been in hiatus from the media itself after her retirement. Probably only acquaintances are able to contact her. The Chinese title shown in the pictures mention that the fourth episode is the finale of the series. Someone on Chin Hong's FB has replied to me that between '82 - '86, there was a craze in making direct-to-video productions, while famous actors from HK and TW participated, the quality was lower, and most of them were usually shipped overseas. I did a search on some keywords and all I got was an erotic video made by Zhou You in '86. I'm still kind of skeptic on this, but if this really is the case, then maybe the other parts of the film might be found in Chinatowns, Asian stores...etc and maybe some overseas Asians might've watched it.
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Post by reinafu on Jul 31, 2018 13:39:43 GMT
rdenn, maybe it would be worth to ask your friend in America if he could regularly visit his Chinatown store in order to see if other discs have surfaced, or to ask the merchant to let him know as soon as one of the three other episodes surfaces... But I'm sure that you already thought of this...
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Post by reinafu on Jul 31, 2018 13:59:45 GMT
I just thought of something : as I'm so eager to find this series, I post questions about it on every forum I'm member of, in order to get help and I remember that on one of these forums, rdenn had said that Chang Shan (I guess that he is the same actor as Chang Shen ?) also plays in the series.
Maybe there could be informations on his side ?
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Post by reinafu on Aug 1, 2018 12:06:19 GMT
Could it be also a Singapore series ? David Chiang looks the same age in this and in White horse......
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Post by yenchin on Aug 1, 2018 16:01:48 GMT
Chen/Chang Shan seems to have ceased filming after '94 and probably is in low profile as well. The filming angles, and special effects of 9 Lanterns seems quite Taiwanese to me, but after hitting another dead end last night I'm open to anything now.
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Post by yenchin on Aug 1, 2018 17:18:41 GMT
An 80s fan has pointed out to me that the bald guy was in a comedic television show (Woolong Yuan/烏龍院, of the comic of the same name). Yet he didn't know the actor's name. Too bad I can't go to the library to look up the newspaper archives these days.
In short, another 'keep in mind' dead end.
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Post by reinafu on Aug 2, 2018 12:07:26 GMT
I akes the guy who helps me to buy from Chinese site all in Chinese and he told me today that he is going to investigate for us. Let's hope that he'll find something !
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Post by reinafu on Aug 2, 2018 12:16:19 GMT
An 80s fan has pointed out to me that the bald guy was in a comedic television show (Woolong Yuan/烏龍院, of the comic of the same name). Yet he didn't know the actor's name. Too bad I can't go to the library to look up the newspaper archives these days. In short, another 'keep in mind' dead end. Is it him ?
or him ?
or him ?
or him ?
or him ?
Oh, wait, I think that I have found him !
I still let the other links in case of I would be mistaken.
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Post by reinafu on Aug 2, 2018 12:22:24 GMT
Chen/Chang Shan seems to have ceased filming after '94 and probably is in low profile as well. The filming angles, and special effects of 9 Lanterns seems quite Taiwanese to me, but after hitting another dead end last night I'm open to anything now. By special effects, do you mean the ones used when the same action few seconds are repeated several times as if it was jerking ?I don't know how to explain what I mean, sorry.
This also happens in White Horse...and you said that it was a Singaporean series, but maybe both countries use the same way of filming.
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Post by yenchin on Aug 2, 2018 15:00:08 GMT
An 80s fan has pointed out to me that the bald guy was in a comedic television show (Woolong Yuan/烏龍院, of the comic of the same name). Yet he didn't know the actor's name. Too bad I can't go to the library to look up the newspaper archives these days. In short, another 'keep in mind' dead end. Is it him ?
or him ?
or him ?
or him ?
or him ?
Oh, wait, I think that I have found him !
I still let the other links in case of I would be mistaken.
I got a 403 forbidden on all these links. Could you provide something like their profile page?
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Post by reinafu on Aug 2, 2018 15:17:37 GMT
That's absolutely annoying !! It even happened to me when I clicked on the links being in this forum ! Did you try to copy-paste the links and search on google ? When you say " profile page " do you mean a facebook page ?
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Post by yenchin on Aug 2, 2018 15:42:54 GMT
Chen/Chang Shan seems to have ceased filming after '94 and probably is in low profile as well. The filming angles, and special effects of 9 Lanterns seems quite Taiwanese to me, but after hitting another dead end last night I'm open to anything now. By special effects, do you mean the ones used when the same action few seconds are repeated several times as if it was jerking ?I don't know how to explain what I mean, sorry.
This also happens in White Horse...and you said that it was a Singaporean series, but maybe both countries use the same way of filming.
Yes. And the house leaping (jumping off a building, then rewind the film). Speaking of White Horse, the guy who replied me at Chin Hong's page mentioned it as one of the direct to video productions in Taiwan, along with The Eleventh Son and September Hawk, "and some Wolong Sheng Novels". I asked him if he meant the David Chiang White Horse series but didn't get a reply. The reason I was quite confident that the series was Singaporean was because the opening seemed so different from Taiwanese productions. The subtitles, the camera angles...etc While typing this I'm looking back at the post where it mentions that the White Horse is from Singapore. There are a couple things I missed: 1. It mentions that ATV bought the series from Singapore 2. The poster is sure it was filmed in Taiwan (didn't cite the reason) 3. The poster has checked with TTV Taiwan, as well as looked up the TV database (which is sadly still offline since 2015), and confirmed that the series was never broadcasted in Taiwan. 4. On the other hand, unfortunately the people who handled the series at ATV have either retired or left their posts so there was no way for the poster to trace the origins in Singapore. Assuming that the White Horse series is really direct to video, it somehow makes it kind of consistent with the whole situation. The site as well as the opening also lists a lot of names so it would likely be easier to look into them on its origins. Also, that makes so far TWO direct videos for Chiang. Interesting.
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