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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Jan 6, 2014 21:15:58 GMT -6
The billionaire co-founder of Shaw Studios, which produced hundreds of influential martial arts pics along with the 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner, died early Tuesday local time in Hong Kong, Chinese media reports. Run Run Shaw was 106. He started the Shaw Organization with brother Runme in 1926, and it evolved into one of the biggest producers of Asian features. Starting in the early 1950s and peaking during the 1970s and ’80s, Shaw Brothers Studios made such popular and influential martial arts films as The One-Armed Swordsman — directed by Shaw Brothers regular Chang Cheh, the first Hong Kong movie to gross HK$1 million — and its sequels; The 36 Chambers of Shaolin and Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, both directed by Lau Kar-leung and starring Gordon Liu; Come Drink With Me with Kara Hui, one of Shaw Brothers’ most popular female stars; the cult classic Five Deadly Venoms; The Flying Guillotine; and Five Fingers Of Death. Attachments:
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