Set in a remote mountain village in Ming China, the 14th century CE, the story is largely seen through the eyes of Gu, a well-meaning but unambitious scholar and painter, with a tendency towards being clumsy and ineffectual. 4.3 Feminism and conservative womanhood.In November 1971, both parts of the film were combined into one for the Hong Kong market with a run time of 187 minutes. The original Taiwanese release was in two parts in 19 (filming was still ongoing when the first part was released) with the bamboo forest sequence that concludes Part 1 reprised at the beginning of Part 2 this version has a combined run time of 200 minutes. Although filming began in 1968, A Touch of Zen was not completed until 1971. Because the director Hu was a filmmaker in the Shaw Brothers Studio before moving to Taiwan, the emergence of the film established the international visibility of the Hong Kong New Wave. The film was produced in Taiwan and funded by the Union Film Company. At the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Technical Grand Prize award. The film is set in the Ming dynasty under the dominance of eunuchs and narrates multiple themes of transcendence of dichotomies, Zen Buddhism, feminism, conservative female roles, and the ghost story. Its screenplay is based on a classic Chinese story " Xianü" in the book Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling. A Touch of Zen (Chinese: 俠女) is a 1971 wuxia film co-edited, written, and directed by film maker King Hu.
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