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South China Morning Post
30-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
How Legend of the Condor Heroes inspired Hong Kong film director's Brave Archer trilogy
Adapting a novel for the big screen is always a challenge. This is especially true of books by martial arts novelist Louis Cha Leung-yung, better known as Jin Yong. Advertisement Cha's multifaceted, multi-volume works, first serialised in newspapers including Ming Pao, are not only extremely long but have complicated plots involving many characters, scenarios and locations. This is why his books have often been considered more suitable for television adaptations – of which there are numerous examples in Hong Kong and mainland China – as they can be long enough to represent the entire arc of a story. When Cha's works have been successfully adapted for film, these have generally taken a single storyline from a book. A still from The Brave Archer (1977), adapted from a book by Louis Cha. The story in Tsui Hark and Tony Ching Siu-tung 's classic Swordsman II , for instance, is taken from the novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer – but the tale that Tsui tells is based on just 12 pages of the book. Advertisement
South China Morning Post
16-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
An unexpected link between Hong Kong's Louis Cha ‘Jin Yong' and Labubu doll
The creator of global toy sensation Labubu is a Hong Kong-born artist who attributes his early creativity to his childhood years of reading arguably the city's most famous writer, Louis Cha Leung-yung , also known as Jin Yong. Advertisement The late wuxia novelist whose martial arts books have inspired generations of Chinese youngsters the world over also fascinated Lung Ka-sing as a child, leading him to devour hand-me-down versions from the chefs working in his parents' restaurant. Lung moved to Holland with his parents at age six and credits Cha's novels with helping him learn to read and write Chinese. 'My early impression of Hong Kong was very vague because I left at a young age,' he said. 'But I love Hong Kong culture and used to read a lot of Jin Yong's fiction.' His first exposure to that world came with The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, which sparked his interest in other books in the collection, he said. Advertisement The recollection was one of several the soft-spoken Lung, 52, shared in an interview with the Post, during which he also drew a Labubu character exclusively for the newspaper's readers.
