The new issue (2.2MB PDF) of the Hong Kong Film Archive's newsletter features a wonderful oral history interview with martial-arts queen Yu So Chow. An English translation is available as a supplement (95KB PDF), but be sure to check out the cool pictures in the original.
Miss Yu is quite the storyteller. There are some great anecdotes, like the one about when she was filming a fight scene with Sek Kin at 5 o'clock in the morning and was so exhausted that she forgot to move her arm out of the way of his blade. "Blood jetted out, and one could see the tendons splitting apart and bones sticking out... One of my co-stars So Siu-tong came over to dress my wound with some Chinese ointment. Then, I soldiered on until I completed the shoot. It was pitiful..."!
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