中国两岸三地区武侠电影的巡礼

AN OVERLOOK ON MOVIES OF CHINESE MARTIAL ART FROM THE THREE RE GIONS

中国武侠电影在中国电影发展史上占有十分重要的地位，其重要性甚至不亚于西部片之于美国电影，因而值得认真加以研究。 中国武侠电影是以现代工业和现代科学技术为基础的电影手段与中国固有的武术文化、武侠小说传统相结合的一个产物。

The movies of Chinese martial art took its standing in the history of Chinese cinema. However, it's never inferior to the cowboy films in the history of Hollywood. Followed by its first issue in 1925, this genre of film came out as a high tide during the period 1928-1931. In the Mainland, the production record was blanked there until 'The Mysterious Buddha' comes out again in 1980 as a sigh of the regeneration of the Chinese martial art on the Mainlan Mainlan d's screen. In Hong Kong, the initial production of martial art was issued in early 1940s. By then, in the late 1950s, the popularity of novels on modern style of matial art made a push forward to the trend of Chinese. martial art filmmaking. In Taiwan, a large number of Chinese martial art productions come out in the 1970s. These films modeled themselves after the Hong Kong martial art films and they are influenced by the movies from the Mainland and Japan as well. The Chinese martial art movies belong to a genre of film which relates to a rich intension of Chinese cultural heritage. There is a common ground as well as differences on filmic ideas of martial art filmmaking between the three regions. Thus, further studies are necessarily demanded.