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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0601641267847
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Tai Seng
Manufacturer: Tai Seng
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Tai Seng
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 10, 2002
Running Time: 180 minutes
Sales Rank: 47116
Studio: Tai Seng
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Terrible Bore
This is one of the worst films I've seen in a long, long time. It's very long, very drawn out, very boring. There's little action and little dialog, making it a chore to sit through. The actors don't act so much as move from pose to pose. Very little of the plot makes any logical sense. Perhaps this film is of some interest to people with an interest in the genre. My guess is that the overall positive reviews here are based on a combination of self selection--only people with reason to believe they ... Read More
Rating:  - One of King Hu's masterpieces
Sublime and sprawling, A TOUCH OF ZEN is perhaps the greatest in King Hu's series of ground-breaking, metaphysical period dramas.
Vaguely, A TOUCH OF ZEN is a martial arts film, and it's greatest influence was on other HK martial arts films (and later international crossovers like CROUCHING TIGER, HERO and HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS). But it approaches being martial arts as Tarkovsky would have done it - the film is set up in three methodically paced, long sections (it's a 3 hour film), which ... Read More
Rating: - SIMPLE, ELEGANT MIX OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY, INCREDIBLE UNSPOILED SCENERY AND ACTION
In the first ten minutes I thought it was just okay;
then it did nothing but get better for the next 177 minutes. Director King Hu was a visionary;no wonder so many contemporary movies have explicitly and liberally lifted his ideas.
Unlike so many martial arts' movies, character reigns;
the plot is intricate, evolving and and motivates the action.
And the natural locations make me want to take a very long walk around China. A feeling of reality and naturalness prevails in ... Read More
Rating: - Idiocy to fast forward through
This movie is terrible. It is three hours of nonsense. The pacing is so slow that you have to make a lot of use of the fast forward button. The fight scenes are laughable. The fighters hop like bunnies. Every single fight scene in this film, and in almost every other oriental so-called kung fu film, is absolute worthless garbage. Fast forward through all the fight scenes, which means fast forward through most of the movie. Also fast forward through all the scenes where nothing is happening. That doesn't ... Read More
Rating:  - One of the Time Magazine Top 100 Films
Included in the Time Magazine Best 100 Films of all time list, A Touch of Zen does not disappoint. Though it starts slowly, the momentum gradually increases until the viewer is completely caught up in the story of a refugee woman who seeks the help of two generals, disguised as common townfolk (one a blind man, the other a doctor), and a group of monks led by an abbot whose spiritual strength is expressed in his ability to thwart violence and defeat evil based on deflecting the advances of his enemy and using that ... Read More
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