![]() The quality of the production, the incredible martial arts work and visual effects, and top quality acting is prompting us to add this series to our own “Best of 2019” review coming later this month. But if you watch it–a whopping 52 incredible hour-long format episodes, you’re in store for one of the finest, most exciting genre series you’ve ever seen. It’s only available if you’re willing to pick up an international DVD player, or you track it down on YouTube (both available in subtitled English editions). The most recent adaptation of the The Legend of the Condor Heroes story can be found in a 2017 series, starring well-known actors in China. If you think Lucas based his story only on the works of Akira Kurosawa’s films from Japan, think again–there’s as much Condor Heroes in Star Wars’s galaxy as Hidden Fortress. Even without global circulation the series has influenced countless other stories, including so many elements of George Lucas’s Star Wars saga audiences will lose track of all the common elements. A Hero Born is only the first of twelve novels in the saga The Legend of the Condor Heroes. But until recently they have only been available in China, or for those outside of China who have taken efforts to seek them out. The books have been adapted and interpreted over the past 70 years into dozens of films, TV series, and spin-offs. We only just saw an English translation of one of the best, most widely read, epic fantasy novels from China this year with the release of A Hero Born (reviewed here at borg), only the first book in author Jin Yong’s 1950s wuxia novel series. Despite living in an international economy with the ability to communicate via portable devices with literally anyone on the planet, it’s a shame that the exchange of culture between the Western world and China is still stuck in the 20th century.
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