Seasonal Film Corporation

Seasonal Film Corporation (Chinese: 思遠影業公司) is an independent film company from Hong Kong, originally founded by the ex-assistant Shaw Brothers movie director Ng See-yuen in 1974. One of their first film was Call me Dragon in 1974, starring Bruce Liang, Kurata Yasuaki and Mang Hoi. Seasonal Film Corporation is one of the well known independent filming company in Hong Kong and who is also responsible with likes of martial arts stars such as Jackie Chan, Hwang Jang-lee, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Yuen Woo Ping, Bruce Liang, Alan Chui Chung-San and Corey Yuen.

Beginning

Ng See-yuen originally started the company in Hong Kong in 1974, starting off with few of the Bruce Liang movie titles with the likes of Call me Dragon, Bruce Lee, D-Day at Macao (Little Superman) and European and HK co-production Kidnap in Rome. Soon, their popularity started to rise when they released the movie Secret Rivals in 1976, from there on Ng See Yuen got more attention from many film directors and soon expanding it's popularity through Hong Kong.

Popularity

The company started to get more attention when Yuen Woo-ping marks his first director debut on both Drunken Master and Snake in the Eagle's Shadow with the likes of Jackie Chan and Hwang Jang-lee. Giving a chance for Jackie Chan to approach more on a comedic kung fu style, soon the production companies two Yuen Woo Ping films not only expand the popularity of Jackie Chan, but also giving a proper position for Ng See Yuen to set his company as their own independent film making company.

The company further goes down with popularity a bit more, the directors like Tsui Hark marked his first two debut films such as The Butterfly Murders and We're Going to Eat You through 1979 to 1980.

The company is also responsible with semi- Japanese and Hong Kong co-production film under the Corey Yuen's first director debut film called Ninja in the Dragon's Den starring Conan Lee and Hiroyuki Sanada, popularising the Ninja movies genre in Hong Kong and it was also very successful in Japanese's film market as a whole.

Hollywood Pictures

Ng See Yuen began to expand his production company further more, they began to release some of the American style of kick boxing movies with New World Pictures, hence further more expanding the No Retreat, No Surrender trilogy through 1986 to 1989.

Some of the Seasonal Film's Hollywood picture is also responsible for bringing up the likes of stars such as Jean-Claude Van Damme and Kurt McKinney who made their first debut in the first No Retreat, No Surrender film.

Defunct

One of the Seasonal Film Corporation's last film was Wu Jing (actor)'s 2008 film Legendary Assassin. The film was defunct around late 2008. Ng See-yuen later became a chairman of the several Hong Kong Film industry.

Films

External links

• Seasonal Film Corporation on IMDb
• Seasonal Film Corporation at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase