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Friday, August 13, 2010

潮剧电影 : 莲香戏鞋 - 荘雪娟,丁楚翹原唱
Teochew Opera Movie - Strange Visitor


An old movie 莲香戏鞋 (Strange Visitor) by 荘雪娟 and 丁楚翘 of 东山潮音剧艺社 created a stir recently.


Initially, I was not sure if the audience would accept a dubbed version of the movie so I just uploaded two short clips of 莲香戏鞋 covering the last segment 回仙山. To my surprise,the two clips had recorded no less than a 1000 hits over the last seven months. This is something which I would regard as unusual as many of my other clips did not even reach 500 hits after a year.


莲香戏鞋 carried a simple plot but armed with a power pack non-stop singing by 荘雪娟 and 丁楚翹 throughout 70% of the movie. May be, we can classify such movie productions as semi-musical shows as they really keep the audience engaged throughout the movie.




Fans of such Teochew Opera movies from UK and USA appealed to me to upload the complete movie. I took advantage of the recent long weekend to cut the movie into 9 parts covering some 80% to 90% of the original soundtrack. I received many comments for almost all the clips uploaded. I found uploading this movie very rewarding. I helped some fans with the oppotunity to listen to a movie soundtrack which they had heard decades ago after they had migrated overseas. To all the Teochew people 潮州人 (kakinang) living overseas, let's continue to keep this dying art alive.

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