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The Romance of Book and Sword is a Hongkongais film of genre Drama directed by Sammo Hung with Deng Jie
The Romance of Book and Sword (1987)
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Add to a movie listThe Romance of Book and Sword (released as Jiangnan Shujian Qing, 江南書劍情) in mainland China) is a 1987 Hong Kong film by Ann Hui, based on Louis Cha's novel The Book and the Sword. The film was followed by Princess Fragrance, released later in the same month and also directed by Ann Hui. The films are among the earliest Hong Kong films to be completely shot in mainland China with a full mainland Chinese cast.
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The film covers the first half of the novel and ends with the truce between the Qianlong Emperor and the Red Flower Society at Liuhe Pagoda. The two major subplots in the novel are omitted: Li Yuanzhi and Zhou Qi do not appear in the film.Actors
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