Sea Eagle

[Young Master]

Can a movie from Singapore be added into DB?

If so, this is a telemovie from 1995 with Damian Lau and Ivy Lee

[calros]

I think it is a Taiwanese B-movie.

Added movie, dir., writer, story, plan, prod., action dir., phot., ed., art dir., sound, costumes, gaffer and 12 actors

[Young Master]

I think it is a Taiwanese B-movie.

What I know is that it's filmed in Singapore and "Television Corporation of Singapore" owns the rights for it. How would it be Taiwan-connected?

[kenichiku]

Can a movie from Singapore be added into DB?

I would think so especially if it has staff associated with HK cinema and/or had a release there. It can be Taiwanese f it has a joint production arrangement but the HKFA lists this solely of Singaporean origin. Just my opinion but I don't think I've ever seen any Taiwanese productions use simplified Chinese character fonts before (but I have from Singapore).

[calros]

If an HK company shoots a movie in South Africa with South African actors and bushmen and only 3 Chinese actors, the movie will be an HK movie at any rate.

It does not matter the location where the movie was filmed, but the production company or the production team (not the releasing company).

I said I thought "Sea Eagle" is Taiwanese because part of the cast and crew is Taiwanese.

Of course, I can be wrong. If later we found that I was wrong, the movie can be removed from the HKMDB, no problem.

[Brian Thibodeau]

It does not matter the location where the movie was filmed, but the production company or the production team (not the releasing company).

Of course, I can be wrong. If later we found that I was wrong, the movie can be removed from the HKMDB, no problem.

Just wondering why the film would need to be removed if it turns out it is not a Taiwan-funded production? I've noticed when setting up entries in the DB, the pull-down list for "location" includes Singapore and a few other countries and cities like Canada, U.S.A., Japan, Thailand, Phillipines, San Francisco, New York and others, most of them places where Hong Kong films have often been set and extensively or even entirely filmed, though I'd imagine they were probably funded and/or production-controlled out of Hong Kong.

How should this "location" tab be used? If all films in the database should "technically" be listed as Hong Kong, Taiwan or China/People's Republic, then why keep those other cities and countries as options? I think that's the source of my confusion, as to how to use this "location" tab when it includes a list of actual locations that are often a major component of Hong Kong productions, but which could be misleading if someone was looking for the source of funding or, alternately, the primary location of filming. If films in the DB should only be attributed to one of the three major Chinese regions, then would that force the deletion of titles like SEA EAGLE completely and the streamlining of the "location" tab so such titles can't be added in the future?

Should there perhaps be TWO tabs set up for future entries? One for "Country/Countries of Production" or some such name, and the existing one for "Location", but using the latter exclusively for the primary filming location, perhaps with the option to add multiple locations for films that are set (and more importantly, filmed) in more than one locale? Or is it better to avoid what could become a real chore trying to sort out 90-some years of movies that way?

Just thinkin', but clarification might be handy on this one.

[calros]

http://hkmdb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=43299

[Brian Thibodeau]

Good to see this is an ongoing concern!