The old-school Korean movies are hard to find in Korea but what about the posters? They are even harder to find, especially before 1990 and in good shape.
I was lucky a few minutes ago to win 3 auctions on a Korean Ebay!!! That was really exciting since I NEVER see any Martial Arts movie poster for sale EVER in Korea, but those I grabbed are quite stunning. :angel:
Jeong Mu Gate '81 (Dragon Lee) 1981
Righteous Fighter, "Il Ji Mae" (Hwang In-Sik) 1976
Great posters, would have loved the Dragon Lee ones for my collection. I guess Dragon Lee's star power was fading by the time Secret Ninja, Roaring Tiger was released, considering his image is tiny on the poster art
Great posters, would have loved the Dragon Lee ones for my collection. I guess Dragon Lee's star power was fading by the time Secret Ninja, Roaring Tiger was released, considering his image is tiny on the poster art
In that time Hwang Jang-Lee went back from Hong Kong to Korea, since he became famous in HK, Korean directors probably wanted to get some money on his name. And about Dragon Lee, well he made only one more martial art movie after "Secret Ninja, Roaring Tiger" and that was "5 Pattern, Dragon Claws". It is kinda bizzard that he quit from making those films then since his last two kung fu films were probably his best, but anyway he showed himself to be really good in gangster stuff as well, too bad that he didn't make some more.
As for the posters yes, we should make this section where people could upload pictures of the posters they have (or found on the net in good quality).
I am always curious to see the various art for one released movie around the world. Marko, maybe you have found some rare stuff down in Serbia? I would be curious to see what they came up with to advertise Martial Arts films.
On my part, I am currently dealing some more rare Korean poster. I will keep you updated.
-- Edited by Monkeygift on Thursday 12th of January 2012 08:49:16 AM
Damn sometimes I hate the delivery services in Korea!
I was suppose to get those poster last week and they got (according to their site) delivered... Problem is, I NEVER got them. My wife called the company and they said they delivered the package (hum! bull****!) but there is nothing I can do and I lost those 3 ****in rare posters + the price I've paid for them :(
However, my other parcel which included 12 other rare Korean posters just arrived today, what a relief. But still those 3 above are gone missing finito! arggghh!
By the way as I was inspecting the ones that got to my house safely I was very surprised to noticed how cheap was the paper they used at the the time to print the posters. The paper is something between newspaper and bible paper THIN.
Also, almost none of them are the same size... which probably means that there was no industry stadard at the time for posters. Korea was a very poor country back in the early 80's so that may also be one factor.
That said, I'm pretty happy that most of my poster got home safe and some of them are in gorgeous condition considering the facts that I stated above!
I will post them up when I'll be back home :)
-- Edited by Monkeygift on Wednesday 18th of January 2012 10:34:54 AM
Yeah but I think they are lost since the delivery company stated that it has been DELIVERED. That's also what is written on the tracking system on their internet site.
Anyway, to cover part of my loss I am willing to sell maybe a few of the posters I managed to get. Of course the money will also serve to buy other rare Korean Martial Arts posters that just popped up recently.
Those I will be selling including the ones I keep will all be posted later today.
-- Edited by Monkeygift on Friday 20th of January 2012 03:23:42 AM
NO, they are all vintage ORIGINALS. I hate reprints... I never buy reprints. Anyway, in korea those old Kung fu movies are not popular among the new generations, nobody knows who Hwang Jang-Lee is... So why would they make reprints? lol
