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SUMMARY:Miss Magic / Shogun Assassin
DESCRIPTION:In-person: \n\nIntroduction by guest programmer Janet Louie\, 
 Ph.D. candidate\, Harvard University.\n\n\nAdmission is free. No advance 
 reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your 
 ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come\, first served 
 basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.\n \n\nBloody 
 Legacies: Action and Horror at the Sing Lee Theatre\n\nMiss 
 Magic\n\n靈幻小姐\, Hong Kong\, 1988\n\nAfter her suicide\, a woman 
 returns as a vengeful ghost to haunt her unfaithful actor-husband on the 
 set of his new film. Desperate\, he and his crew enlist a stagehand skilled 
 in Taoist magic for help. Miss Magic is a quintessential example of the 
 popular jiangshi (“hopping vampire”) films of the 1980s and 1990s. The 
 juxtaposition of Qing dynasty-clad jiangshi within a modern setting 
 reflects Hong Kong’s anxieties over its impending 1997 “handover” 
 from the United Kingdom to the People’s Republic of China. \n\n35mm\, 
 color\, in Cantonese with English subtitles\, 96 min. Director: Fung 
 Hak-on. Screenwriter: Pang Chi-Ming. With: Petrina Fung Bo-Bo\, Billy Lau 
 Nam-Kwong\, Norman Tsui Siu-Keung\, Pauline Wong Yuk-Wan.\n \n\nShogun 
 Assassin\n\nJapan/U.S.\, 1980\n\nThis legendary chanbara (samurai 
 sword-fighting) film is an English-dubbed\, recut amalgamation of the first 
 two Japanese Lone Wolf and Cub films (1972). Based on the manga series of 
 the same name (1970–76)\, the films are widely credited with popularizing 
 the trope of a grizzled\, vengeful warrior charged with protecting a young 
 child. The film gained notoriety in the U.K. in 1983 during the “Video 
 Nasties” moral panic over its perceived obscene content\, causing it to 
 fall out of circulation for more than a decade.  \n\n35mm\, color\, 
 English\, 90 min. Director: Misumi Kenji\, Robert Houston. Screenwriters: 
 Koike Kazuo\, Kojima Goseki\, Robert Houston. With: Wakayama Tomisaburō\, 
 Matsuo Kayo\, Kobayashi Aki\,  Tomikawa Akihiro.\n\n—guest programmer 
 Janet Louie\n\nJoin Meeting: 
 https://cinema.ucla.edu/events/miss-magic-shogun-assassin-2026-01-18/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, UCLA Film & Television Archive
ORGANIZER;CN="Suzy Lee":MAILTO:szlee@library.ucla.edu
CATEGORIES:Screening
CONTACT;CN="Suzy Lee":MAILTO:szlee@library.ucla.edu
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