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Faster than instant noodles

Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, October 21, 2008 12:56 PM

Here's a blog for aficionados of Chinese film and art: Faster Than Instant Noodles by Edwin Mak.

Recent posts include Xie Jin, We Salute You about the recently deceased director Xie Jin (谢晋) whose most famous work is The Red Detachment of Women, and Memories of the Colourful and Melodramatic, which links to an archive of film posters from Hong Kong's Shaw and Cathay studios.

The image reproduced here is from the poster archive: it's the poster for The Swallow Thief, (1961) from the Shaw Brothers, directed by Yueh Feng.

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