Records of The Hong Kong Cinema (1998)
ISBN-7-80536-305-6
Scene from The Three Swordsmen
Records of the Hong Kong Cinema is a 488-page book containing about a thousand movie reviews of Hong Kong cinema from 1913 to 1997.  If that wasn't enough, they threw in 1056 pictures where the later half are all in colour.  This is definitely the ultimate Hong Kong cinema book which can be the perfect coffee book that weighs almost 5 pounds.  It is written in simplified Mandarin.  The reviews are in chronological order.
Scene from Royal Tramp 2
The reviews pertaining to Brigitte Lin are:
  1. All The Wrong Spies
  2. Ashes of Time
  3. The Bride with White Hair
  4. The Bride with White Hair II
  5. Chungking Express
  6. Deadful Melody
  7. Dragon Inn
  8. Dream Lovers
  9. Eagle shooting Heroes
  10. East is Red (aka Swordsman III)
  11. Handsome Siblings
  12. Peking Opera Blues
  13. Police Story
  14. Red Dust
  15. Royal Tramp
  16. Royal Tramp II
  17. Semi-Gods and Semi-Devils (aka Dragon Chronicles)
  18. Starry is the Night
  19. Swordsman II
  20. Three Swordsmen
  21. Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
There are 20 photographs of Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia in the book.
Scene from Dragon Inn

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