Merge: Revenge of Ghost (1971) & Blind Swordwoman (1970)

[Chen Hung Lieh]

One year ago, a friend gave me a hint that these two movies might possibly be the same:

Revenge of Ghost 金劍冤魂 (1971)
https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/image_detai ... ay_set=eng
Blind Swordwoman 盲俠女 (1970)
https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml? ... ay_set=eng

As we couldn't find a picture of 盲俠女 that perfectly matches one of the motives of 金劍冤魂, I always hesitated to merge them.

Thanks to the wonderful Taiwanese newspaper digital archive, I finally found visual proof:



This ad uses the same motives as the poster of 金劍冤魂.

I will merge these two entries in the next few weeks.

[J.J.Hayden]

Awesome stuff. Seems like that Taiwanese archive will be a useful asset.

[Chen Hung Lieh]

Awesome stuff. Seems like that Taiwanese archive will be a useful asset.

Indeed. It already helped me to solve three mysteries. It was always there and I was always too stupid to find it.

Another ad with another motive that matches the poster of Revenge of Ghost:

[Gaijin84]

Excellent detective work

[Chen Hung Lieh]

Excellent detective work

Well, thankfully the Taiwan archive is pretty easy to use because you can search with the chinese movie titles directly unlike the HK archive. But the site is not perfect either, it goes until 1975 only, some newspapers can't be found although they did cover the movie too, and sometimes you have a result but the newspaper itself has not been uploaded.

I have merged the entries now:

https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml? ... ay_set=eng




金劍冤魂 (1971)
Revenge of Ghost
Origin: Taiwan
Language: Mandarin
Genres: Martial Arts Ghost

Director

Long Da

Screenwriter

O Hung-Cho

Martial Arts Director

Hsi Chuan

Producers

Lin Chen-Feng
Hsu Sheng-Hsiung

Cast

Tinny Ng Sau-Fong
Ou Wei
Lui Ming
Yang Hsiao-Ping
Yip Ching
Li Hong (8)
Fan Ling
Julie Lee Chi-Lun
Ku Chun
Tieh Meng-Chiu
Tian Ming
Wu Pin-Nan
Jin Tu
Tai Liang
Ling Yu (2)
Liu Chun-Chieh
Min Min
Wang Xue-Hua (2)
Lu Ge (2)
Shan Mao
Gai Ming
Hsu Yu-Sheng
Wang Kun-Feng
Huang Feng
Shih Yueh-Niang
Rong Nan
Su Bin

Production Company

Chang Hong

Cinematographer

Chen Hay-Lock

Art Director

Chen Chi-An

Planning

Chen Hsin-Chuan

Production Manager

Hsu Yung-He

Filming Location

Taiwan

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And:



盲俠女 (1970)
Blind Swordwoman
Origin: Taiwan
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Martial Arts
Release Date (HK): 04/18/1972

Director

Long Da

Screenwriter

O Hung-Cho

Cast

Tinny Ng Sau-Fong
Ou Wei
Lui Ming
Yang Hsiao-Ping

Production Company

Rainbow Film Co.

Production Manager

Hsu Yung-He

Filming Location

Taiwan

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I checked all possible newspaper archives from HK, Taiwan and Singapore, but could not verify the release date 04/18/1972.

Not really sure about the production company Rainbow Film Co., but I kept it. The source was probably from a book/calendar with an early poster motive of Chen Tzu-Fu that I found on Facebook:
https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/image_detai ... ay_set=eng