Films Missing Big5 Titles

[MrBooth]

Mostly historical reasons I think... the first many thousand people in the DB were entered in a huge batch by Ryan - the romanisations were probably auto-generated from the Chinese characters?

I agree that there are many actors who should have a Mandarin romanisation as the primary form - please feel free to bring them up in Additions & Modifications when you think somebody should be changed!

[STSH]

The Sword Hand (1971) Added Chinese Title 手刀
added cast + 2 Huge Article Scans from Southern Screen 160 and 2 Portraits - Hope You like it - Enjoy!

Still wonder why so many Shaw Brothers regular actors who were never billed with a cantonese name by Shaws having Cantonese names like my favourite Chao Hsiung [Here: Chiu Hung (1)] while for example Wang Hsieh is not cantonese at all (See. Tien Feng topic) (Even when they hardly appear after Shaws career).

It is because no-one has put up their hand to volunteer for the job of changing them over. Would you like to have a go ?

[Bruce]

...Still wonder why so many Shaw Brothers regular actors who were never billed with a cantonese name by Shaws having Cantonese names like my favourite Chao Hsiung [Here: Chiu Hung (1)] while for example Wang Hsieh is not cantonese at all (See. Tien Feng topic) (Even when they hardly appear after Shaws career).

It is because no-one has put up their hand to volunteer for the job of changing them over. Would you like to have a go ?

I don't think that's the reason. Years ago, the priority of Cantonese-English names (except for a few exceptions) was insisted upon in the HKMDB, even though Shaw, etc., used Mandarin-English names in their credits. Widespread conversion of those names now to Mandarin-English would be a disturbing and drastic major reversal of early policy, and perhaps raises the concern that future HKMDB editors may someday wish to restore the HKMDB by changing all those names back to Cantonese-English again.

I don't think there should be any rush to change old names to Mandarin-English, and any such changes should be on a very selective case-by-case basis. But that's just my opinion.

[Bruce]

Regarding "The Magnificent Duo"
http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=8925
Was there really a distinct Dragon Lee film with that title? I rather doubt it.

There was a Korean film which was re-titled "The Magnificent Duo" when released by Joseph Lai's IFD. I have the Chinese title and cast list for that film, and could enter them, if I can delete Dragon Lee from the cast, as he certainly was not in the film. (The star of the film was Lee Dae-Keun.)

[Bruce]

There are several dubious "Dragon Lee" films in the list, and when I look at the entries it appears that one editor had entered 16 Dragon Lee films into the HKMDB, films #8913 through #8928. All were entered without Chinese titles, though Chinese titles were later added for some of the genuine films. If it is possible to determine who that editor was, he should be asked what his information source was for the following films, which are also still lacking Chinese titles:
Magnificent Duo
The Furious
The Fierce One
Enter the Deadly Dragon
Superfist

If substantiating source information is lacking, I think those titles should be deleted from the HKMDB. It's certainly possible that there were cheapo video releases of his genuine films, retitled with those names. But I doubt if there were distinct Dragon Lee films with those titles, particularly since there is no information about the films other than title and one actor. The IMDB is, of course, unreliable.

[Gaijin84]

Added Thai poster for Martial Monks of Shaolin Temple, I think the Big5 title is on the left side of the poster

http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/image_detail.mhtml?id=8914&image_id=188906&display_set=eng

[calros]

added.

[Gaijin84]

According to the guys over at Kung Fu Cinema Forums, Quick Cut without Knife http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=9705 is actually a Taiwanese alias for Choi Lee Fat Kung Fu

See post # 9:
http://www.kungfucinema.com/forums/showthread.php?t=626

[calros]

Some people says they are the same movie and some people says they are not:
http://www.flkcinema.com/posts.php?forumId=8&roomId=198

[Gaijin84]

Jaws of the Dragon http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=9235

Jaws of the Dragon and The Fierce One are the same film. Not sure what the original title was, but my guess is "Jaws of the Dragon" is the US title release. If no one objects I'll add "Jaws of the Dragon" as an alias for "The Fierce One" on 3/30. Not sure how we want to deal with the cast list on Jaws of the Dragon, there are some duplicates and some names that don't appear on Fierce One. One thing I'm pretty sure of, Dragon Lee isn't in the movie... Will confirm once watched.

[Gaijin84]

Deleted Jaws of the Dragon and added as alias to The Fierce One. Also added cast list to existing one.

[calros]

OK. Better merge movies or actor in the forum of Additions and modifications.

[heinz Germany]

How about an update of that list - save the time of checking which has been added in between?

[calros]

I found that "Challenge of the Gambler" is an alias of "All for the Gamblers"
http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=eng

If nobody stops me in 15 days I will merge them.

[calros]

Merged:

Challenge of the Gambler (1992)
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action
Cast
Alex Man Chi-Leung
Shing Fui-On
Wilson Lam Jun-Yin
Summary
Note : 1992 is an estimated year.

and

??
All for the Gamblers (1991)
Alias : ?????
Alias: The Challenge of the Gambler
Country: Hong Kong
Circuit: Golden Princess
Genres: Action "Bullet Ballet" Gambling
Theatrical Run: 01/24/1991 - 02/01/1991
Box Office: HK $2,767,946.00
Director
Sherman Wong Jing-Wa
Script
Tony Leung Hung-Wah
Action Director
Sherman Wong Jing-Wa
Producers
Gam Cheung-Kuen
Katy Chin Shu-Mei
Cast
Wilson Lam Jun-Yin ... BoBo
Alex Man Chi-Leung ... Ching's assistant
Shing Fui-On ... BoBo's pal
Chin Ho (1) ... Ishikawa
Wong Wing-Fong (1) ... Joey
Bau Hon-Lam ... Ching Chin Sau
Agnes Aurelio
Samuel Kwok Fung
Louis Roth ... Contest organizer
Roger Thomas ... Mario the Godfather
Ai Wai
Lau Yuk-Gei
Chim Bing-Hei
Lam Shung-Ching
Production Company
Hatract Films Ltd.
Filming Company
Ying Ga Din Ying Chai Chok Sau
Distributor
Golden Princess Amusement Co., Ltd. (Hong Kong)
Production Manager
Goon Kei-Mei
Lee Chan-Kam
Lorraine Hoh Lai-Seung

Art Director
Ringo Cheung Sek-Wah
Ken Yip Gwok-Gin

Lighting
Yeung Gam-Shing

Planning
Stanley Ko Moon-Kai
Parkman Wong Pak-Man

Makeup
Jeng Yue-Lai

Props
Yu Tin-Sung

Cinematographer
Lee San-Yip

Editor
Robert Choi Hung (1)

Costume Designer
Ken Yip Gwok-Gin

Presenter
Jimmy Wang Yu
Chin Chang-Liang

Assistant Director
Lee Po-Cheung
Lam Goon-Kiu
Hung Tung-Kim

Hair Stylist
Chan Chi-Ming (1)

Assistant Action Director
Lai Sing-Kwong
Mandy Chan Chi-Man

[calros]

Found and added missing Big5 title of "The Survival" http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=eng

[bkasten]

Four remain.

http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=eng
http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=eng
http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=eng
http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=eng

[yukabacera]

Added titles and studios for the two Mainland films.
'A Fine Chilly Autumn' (http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=10316) appears to be a duplicate of 'Spring in Autumn' (http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=11960)

[calros]

If nobody stops me in 15 days I will merge them.

"The Cold Mountain Temple": added poster and more data. If nobody stops me in 15 days I will remove Lu Yan (1) from the cast. Actually is Lisa Lu Yan.

[calros]

'A Fine Chilly Autumn' (http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=10316) appears to be a duplicate of 'Spring in Autumn' (http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=11960)

Meged:

(1977)
A Fine Chilly Autumn
Origin: Taiwan

Cast
Anthony Chan Yau
Kenny Bee

and

????? (1980)
Spring in Autumn
Origin: Taiwan
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Romance

Director
Chen Kun-Hou


Script
Hou Hsiao-Hsien




Cast
Joan Lin Feng-Chiao ... Ho Li-Wen
Kenny Bee ... Cheng Wei
Hu Chia-Wei
Duen Yik-Cheung
Tsui Fu-Sheng ... Uncle Tung
Liu Ching-Min
Lung Hsiung ... Father Ho
Anthony Chan Yau ... Ping Ping
Pang Hsiang-Lin ... Luo Ping-Yuan
Tse Chi-Sheng
Wan Jie (1)
Ci Lin-Fong
Li Bo (1) ... Lee Chung-Ping
Wan Wan (1) ... Hsiao Ying

Cinematographer
Chen Kun-Hou

Production Manager
Chan Yue-Lam

Sound Recordist
Wang Yong-Fang

Art Director
Tsai Cheng-Pin

Editor
Liao Ching-Song (1)

Script Supervisor
Teng Wei-Shun

Costume Designer
Shu Lan-Ying

Lighting
Lam Chan-Wai

Presenter
Liu Teng-Shan
Lee Hsing

Makeup
Liao Su-Jen

Assistant Director
Hsu Shu-Chen (2)
Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Composer
Tso Hung-Yuan

Props
Chung Tsung-Hai

Associate Production Manager
Cheung Wa-Fook

Filming Location
Taiwan

[bkasten]

Create new threads - do not append to this one as the original list was completed years ago. I can generate a new one