Dragon Inn 4K Restoration Trailer
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Posted July 17, 2015 03:00 PM by Webmaster
French label Carlotta Films has sent us an official theatrical trailer for the recent 4K restoration of director King Hu's classic film Dragon Inn (1967), starring Paula Tsui Siu-Fung, Wong Jun, Liu Ching, Lam Lam, Yip Ching, and Yee Yuen. The film will open in cinemas across France on August 12.
In 2014, the 4K restoration was introduced in the Classics section of the Cannes Film Festival.
Synopsis: In the mid-Ming dynasty, a loyal and upright Minister Yu is accused and killed by the evil and powerful eunuch Cao. Yu's children are sentenced to exile to the border Dragon Gate. Cao sends several assassins to kill Yu's children on their way, yet failed. Cao then sends killers of East Chamber, the espionage agency. The righteous swordsman Xiao and Yu's former staffs come to Dragon Inn to rescue Yu's children. The two groups have many fights there. Then Cao himself comes and has fierce fights with Xiao and others. In the end, Cao dies and Yu's children are saved.
4K Restoration Details:
L'Immagine Ritrovata film laboratory received Dragon Inn materials from the Chinese Taipei Film Archive.
The subject of this project was the preservation of the original material of Dragon Inn by digitization in 4K resolution, and the restoration of the film in 4k by producing a set of digital elements. The original film negative is generally in good preservation condition. The restoration of Dragon Inn was aimed at solving the main issues: flickering, tramlines, major dirt and scratches and all splice‐marks, jittering, tilting and in general unstable image. The only very tricky part was a tear going along 7 frames in reel 2, that was solved with manual clone reconstruction and luminance adjustment. Due to the high number of scratches, a final speckle filter was applied, for a wet‐gate scratch removal effect without creating many single artifacts. There was no vintage copy available to be used as a reference for color restoration. The notes provided by the Taipei Film Archive and the research carried out on the film were key information for this task. The condition of the sound positive was excellent. Only a slight cross modulation distortion was present, due to image spread (an effect caused by wrong exposure of the print). This required an extra high‐frequencies work. (Courtesy of CFF).
Note: In the United Kingdom, local distributors Eureka Entertainment will release Dragon Inn on Blu-ray on September 28. You can see our listing of this upcoming release here.
In 2014, the 4K restoration was introduced in the Classics section of the Cannes Film Festival.
Synopsis: In the mid-Ming dynasty, a loyal and upright Minister Yu is accused and killed by the evil and powerful eunuch Cao. Yu's children are sentenced to exile to the border Dragon Gate. Cao sends several assassins to kill Yu's children on their way, yet failed. Cao then sends killers of East Chamber, the espionage agency. The righteous swordsman Xiao and Yu's former staffs come to Dragon Inn to rescue Yu's children. The two groups have many fights there. Then Cao himself comes and has fierce fights with Xiao and others. In the end, Cao dies and Yu's children are saved.
4K Restoration Details:
L'Immagine Ritrovata film laboratory received Dragon Inn materials from the Chinese Taipei Film Archive.
The subject of this project was the preservation of the original material of Dragon Inn by digitization in 4K resolution, and the restoration of the film in 4k by producing a set of digital elements. The original film negative is generally in good preservation condition. The restoration of Dragon Inn was aimed at solving the main issues: flickering, tramlines, major dirt and scratches and all splice‐marks, jittering, tilting and in general unstable image. The only very tricky part was a tear going along 7 frames in reel 2, that was solved with manual clone reconstruction and luminance adjustment. Due to the high number of scratches, a final speckle filter was applied, for a wet‐gate scratch removal effect without creating many single artifacts. There was no vintage copy available to be used as a reference for color restoration. The notes provided by the Taipei Film Archive and the research carried out on the film were key information for this task. The condition of the sound positive was excellent. Only a slight cross modulation distortion was present, due to image spread (an effect caused by wrong exposure of the print). This required an extra high‐frequencies work. (Courtesy of CFF).
Note: In the United Kingdom, local distributors Eureka Entertainment will release Dragon Inn on Blu-ray on September 28. You can see our listing of this upcoming release here.
