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Friday, June 29 2007

The One-Armed Swordsman

At one of the largest studios in the world, the Shaw Brothers in Hong Kong produced hundreds of films from the '60s through the '80s in many genres: musicals, melodramas, operas, comedies, crime, romance, spies, jewel thieves. To most westerners, the name Shaw Brothers is synonymous with martial arts.


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