Wu Xia TV Series

[jwang]

Came across this fellow's playlist while looking through YouTube for Wu Xia movies.
There's no beating Wu Xia's martial arts action! :lol: Three Jinyong Wu Xia TV Series, along with an assortment of other clips.
Action, romance, drama, and mystery, as well as villains you love to hate, heroes you hate to love, and hot women all around! Watch and be awed! Now if we could only get other language subbings of it...

Edit: whoops, put in dubbing instead of subbing...which in most cases would have things lost in translation

 

[Mechatrill]

These are actually TV series based on three of the works of one of the most popular Wu Xia authors in China, Jin Yong.

He has written a total of 15 novels/short stories that i really know of, which I own all of and are probably collecting dust back home (Hmm... Note to self, re-read them next time I go home and bring a few back to college with me).

Of those three in that link, the first is one of the 2-volume works and one of the first ones Jin Yong wrote. It's not bad at all, but really, it doesn't match up to the bigger and more well known ones that he later wrote.

The second one is actually the third in a series, but it's not really too connected to the other two, so you can still fully enjoy it without having read/watched the two earlier ones. This one is one of the 4-volume novels, and is definatly one of the must read/sees.

The third is one of the only two 5-volume novels Jin Yong wrote, and it can easily be considered one of the very best. This one is quite different from the others in that it focuses on 3 different main protagonists, unlike the other ones which focuses on only one, but then again, that's part of its awsomeness...

But still, it's good to see that there's someone on this forum who truely appreciates some good Chinese Wu Xia, even if it's in the TV series and not the, IMHO, vastly superior book series.

Just about every one of Jin Yong's novels have a TV series counterpart made for it, and for the longer ones, there are several different remakes/versions around, take a look at the other ones too.

Just one last thing, NO EVIL DUBBINGS, I'VE ALREADY SEEN JAPANESE ANIME RUINED BY THEM, I WILL NOT HAVE THIS EVIL TAINT THE GOODNESS OF CHINESE WU XIA TOO!!! Subtitles, however, are fine.

 

[jwang]

Since it is of the opinion that the books are better than the TV series (naturally of course!), here's a link to a translation on another of Jinyong's work.
The State of Divinity (xi¿ño ¿ño ji¿íng h¿?)
Unfortunately, the work seems to have stopped a while ago...
I find it amusing that in all the works of Jinyong I've read or watch, the main male character always have more than one potential love interest (at least the ones I find most interesting B) ).

 

[runestar]

Wow, just checked out the link. Looks like I struck solid gold. Watched "Chronicles of the heavenly dragon" 3 times to date, but I will just as readily watch it again.

I heard they are in the midst of yet another remake of "the condor heroes". Supposedly, Ariel Lin is playing Huang Rong. B)

I personally prefer "Return of the Condor Heroes", but still interested in how this latest interpretation turns out nonetheless. ^_^

Though they inevitably have to leave out most of the in-text musings which explain much of what is going on in the story, which can make it easy to miss out on many tiny titbits of information. This can sometimes make it difficult to follow the flow of the story, if you have not read the novels beforehand.

And of course, no evil dubs!!! :angry: I swear, if I ever hear Guo Jing executing "the 18 dragon-subduing palms" in english... :rant: :flameon: