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The Heroine of the Wilderness

The Heroine of the Wilderness

Drama, Action, Martial Arts, Costume

He Menghua

Zheng Peipei, Yue Hua, Fang Mian, Huang Zongxun, Gu Wenzong

1970

Hong Kong, China

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Completed

Mandarin Chinese

84 minutes

2025-03-02 16:19:00

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This film (drama)Also known as荒江女俠,is aHong Kong, ChinaProducerwomen sex,At1970Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin Chinese,Current Douban rating6.1(For reference only)。
"The Heroine of the Wilderness" was first serialized in the Shanghai "News Daily" supplement in 1928, telling the legendary story of Fang Yuqin avenging her father's death and teaming up with Yue Jianqiu in the jianghu. With its innovative writing style, mixing classical and modern language, it unexpectedly gained great fame and was subsequently published as a standalone book by Sanxing Bookstore, with a preface by Fan Yanqiao and an inscription by Zhou Shoujuan saying "A robust pen carries the burden alone"! It extolled the book to the utmost. In fact, this work was originally a novella structure, forcefully stretched into a long novel (eighty-seven chapters, one hundred twenty thousand words), akin to "stretching tiny feet"; its loose structure is understandable. As a result, although Gu aimed to establish "the new Nie Yinniang" (that is, the heroine Fang Yuqin), it was a failed work; even when he mustered the courage to write "The New Legend of the Heroine of the Wilderness," he could not turn the tide. However, Gu was the first to attempt to create a martial arts novel using new literary techniques, which can be said to have "started a trend without being a master." The book "The Heroine of the Wilderness" pioneered the model of male and female heroes venturing together in the jianghu, having a deep influence on later martial arts novels. It was adapted onto the big screen by director He Menghua in 1969.

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