CHINESE-LANGUAGE RESTORED CLASSICS 華語修復經典 1972 | Mandarin | Colour | DCP | 99min 1979 | Cantonese | Colour | DCP | 88min Director Li Hsing Director Tsui Hark Producer Hu Cheng-Ting Producer Ng See-yuen Scriptwriter Chang Yung-Hsiang Scriptwriter Lam Fan Cinematographer Lai Cheng-Ying Cinematographer Fun Chin Yu Editor Chen Hung-Min Editor Wong Chi-hung, Pang Chin-kuen, Production designer Chou Chih-Liang David Wu Tai-wai Music Saito Ichiro Cast Lau Siu-ming, Wong Shee-tong, Michelle Yim Sound Huang Chin-Chih Production/World Sales Seasonal Film Corporation Cast Ou Wei, Tang Pao-Yun, Ko Hsiang-Ting, 導演 徐克 Fu Pi-Hui 監製 吳思遠 Production Ta Chung Motion Picture Co. 編劇 林凡 Print Source Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute 攝影 范金玉 剪接 黃志雄、彭展權、胡大為 導演 李行 演員 劉兆銘、黃樹棠、米雪 監製 胡成鼎 編劇 張永祥 攝影 賴成英 剪接 陳洪民 美術 鄒志良 音樂 齋藤一郎 音響 黃金治 演員 歐威、唐寶雲、葛香亭、傅碧輝 The Butterfly Murders 蝶變 The Butterfly Murders is an important first in more ways than one. It [影評摘錄] will go down in history as the first film of the Hong Kong New Wave, 《蝶變》在香港電影史中有兩個重要的「第一」。這是 as well as the first film by Tsui Hark, arguably the most influential 新浪潮首部作品，也是徐克這名戰後其中一位最有影響 filmmaker in post-war Hong Kong. […] 力的電影工作者的第一部作品。 The Butterfly Murders is a remarkably accomplished film that 無論如何，《蝶變》是一部技藝精湛的出色作品，箇中 embodies much of Tsui’s formal and thematic characteristics to 顯露出不少日後形式與題旨上的個人特色，包括徐克一 come: his career-long obsession with historical turbulence as social 直鍥而不捨的社會及政治寓言，集體人物的結構，錯綜 and political allegory, a fondness for complicated stories peopled by 複雜的情節，精心塑造的人物，精緻創新的美術設計， collectives of characters, meticulous attention to character design 及極富創意的佈景與道具等。今天看來，《蝶變》其實 that includes costumes bordering on the outrageous, meticulous 預示了徐克往後出現的佳績。 attention to art design that includes imaginative use of props and 徐克在其電影生涯中曾多次重新界定了武俠類型，而 sets that evoke the fantastic... In retrospect, the film is a preview of 《蝶變》更是這方面首度嘗試。徐克本來就是重新演繹 great things to come. […] 的佼佼者，不管執導或監製，他都樂此不疲地重拍或改 Ever ambitious, Tsui chronicles events in The Butterfly Murders with 編舊片。給徐克反轉得最多的類型，得數武俠片，《新 an invented system of time calibration. He calls it the New Era. The 蜀山劍俠》、《黃飛鴻》系列、兩集《東方不敗》、《刀》 movie, for example, starts in Year twenty-four of the New Era. He 等，都把類型推向新的方向，成績美不勝收。《蝶變》 proves to be prophetic. The film represents not only a new era for 未來主義式的設計、創新的機動道具、科學化的動作演 martial-arts films but also one for Hong Kong cinema. History calls 繹、普及文化的大量挪用（古龍小說、日本漫畫、希治 it the New Wave. 閣的《鳥》等），在在也是日後佳績的先聲。 Sam Ho 信心爆棚的徐克，以「新紀元」交代故事的時間。他果 A Century of Chinese Cinema: Look Back in Glory 然洞悉先機，電影不僅開闢武俠片新紀元，也開拓了香 港電影新紀元。歷史稱之為「新浪潮」。 何思穎 《世紀回眸：中華電影經典展》（何慧玲譯） TSUI Hark was born in Vietnam in 1950, and immigrated to Hong SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 主要作品 Kong in 1966. He kept exploring various genres, gaining critical and 1979 The Butterfly Murders 蝶變 commercial successes. His directing debut The Butterfly Murders (79) 1980 Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind 第一類型危險 was a landmark of the Hong Kong New Wave. 1983 Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain 新蜀山劍俠 徐克 1950 年生於越南，66 年移居香港，75 年畢業於美國德州大學電 1986 Peking Opera Blues 刀馬旦 影系，77 年回港，到無綫電視任編劇，後轉投佳視，拍成《金刀情俠》。 1991 Once Upon a Time in China 黃飛鴻 後投身電影界，拍出首作《蝶變》(79)，成為香港電影新浪潮代表作。 2011 The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate 龍門飛甲 2018 Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings 狄仁傑之四大天王 83.