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Come Drink with Me Golden Swallow

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Nov 07, 2003 7:00 PM
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Influential director King Hu's first martial arts film Come Drink with Me is considered by many to be the definitive wuxia pian (or chivalrous swordplay film). The film stars Zheng Peipei (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), who reprises her role in the sequel, Golden Swallow. Star Zheng Peipei is best known in the West as Jade Fox in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In Come Drink with Me she plays a female warrior, Golden Swallow, who attempts to rescue her kidnapped brother. (King Hu, 1966; 94 mins.)

Zheng Peipei reprises the role in the sequel, Golden Swallow, but director Zhang Che reverses King Hu's feminine paradigm and places one of the Shaw Brothers' biggest stars, Jimmy Wang Yu, at the film's center as a tormented swordsman. (1968; 108 mins.)

Season Support

Support for the 2003-04 film/video season provided by the Rohauer Collection Foundation and the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation.

Contemporary films, international films, and visiting filmmakers presentations presented with support from the Ohio Arts Council.

Event Support

Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film touring program has been selected and organized by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The series has been made possible with Presenting Sponsorship from the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in San Francisco and additional sponsorship from Cathay Pacific Airways.

© Licensed by Celestial Pictures Ltd. (a company incorporated in Hong Kong SAR). All rights reserved.

Promotional Support

The series presented at the Wexner Center with promotional support from The Underground, OSU's Student Radio.

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Past

Come Drink with Me Golden Swallow

Nov 07, 2003 7:00 PM EST
$6 students (tickets required)
$4 members
Become a Member