Celestial's Shaw Brothers Film Library
Celestial's Shaw Brothers Film Library is the world's largest Chinese film library, consisting of over 760 feature films originally released over a forty-year timeframe and produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. The genres in the library include kung fu, action, martial arts, erotica, comedy, horror, situational drama, musical, period drama, and thriller.
Digital remastering
In the past, very few titles from the Shaw Brothers film archive had previously appeared in any electronic multimedia form since their original cinema release in the 50s-90s.Beginning in 2002, Celestial Pictures employed the use of state-of-the-art digital technology to restore each and every frame from the original negatives for over 760 films. They would be released on DVD from that same year onward; the sound and picture quality of those films have been considered by film fans around the world to be even more stunning than the original cinematic prints.
Actors &; actresses
An A-list lineup of film stars is one of the major attractions of the library, many of whom still dominate the East Asian film industry, including Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat, Stephen Chow, Gordon Liu, Cheng Pei-pei, Maggie Cheung, and Andy Lau.Directors & crew
The Shaw Brothers Studio also nurtured the careers of many modern, talented and high-profile filmmakers, including John Woo, Yuen Woo Ping and Tony Ching Siu-tung.The studio's legendary martial-arts directors include Chang Cheh, King Hu, Liu Chia-liang and Chu Yuan. Their distinguished martial arts styles continue to influence action films around the world to this day.
List of genres in the library
- Kung Fu
- Action
- Martial Arts
- Erotica
- Comedy
- Horror
- Situational Drama
- Musical
- Period Drama
- Thriller