Title
Handbill for the Korean movie, ‘The Korean James Bond’
Year/Period
c. 1950s-1970s
Region
Singapore
Material
Dimension
Object size: 19.5 x 27.2 cm
Accession No.
2007-50751
Collection of
This handbill was used to advertise the Korean movie, ‘The Korean James Bond’ (出生入死五特务, Chushengrusiwutewu).Between the 1950s and 1960s, most Mandarin, Cantonese and other Chinese-dialect movies were made in Hong Kong by film production companies with financial support from Singapore-based film studios such as Shaw Brothers, Cathay and Kong Ngee (光艺, Guanyi). These studios were also involved in the distribution and exhibition of these movies in Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia through their network of cinemas. In the early 1970s, Mandarin movies from Taiwan became popular, but by the late 1970s, Hong Kong movies were dominant once more.
