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Japanese: 香港映画 - ほんこんえいが

Since the early 1970s, when kung fu films (the English pronunciation of the Chinese Wade-Giles romanization kung fu) typified by a series of films starring Bruce Lee (1940-73) such as Enter the Dragon (1972) sparked a worldwide boom and attracted attention, Hong Kong films have become synonymous with kung fu films and are known throughout the world. Kung fu is a martial art for self-defense in the Cantonese dialect, and action films featuring fighting using Chinese martial arts are collectively called kung fu films, but there are also films that depict not only bare-handed fights but also fights using various Chinese martial arts with weapons (i.e. wuxia films).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1970年代初めに，《ドラゴン危機一発》(1972)など，ブルース･リーBruce Lee(1940‐73)の一連の主演作に代表される〈クンフー(功夫)映画〉(中国語のウェード式ローマ字表記kung fuを英語読みにして〈カンフー映画〉とも)が世界的なブームを巻き起こして注目を浴びて以来，香港映画は〈クンフー映画〉の代名詞ともなって世界中に知られている。〈クンフー〉とは広東方言で護身用の格闘技のことで，中国拳法による格闘を主体としたアクション映画が〈クンフー映画〉と総称されるが，徒手空拳の闘いだけでなく武器を用いた諸々の中国武術による闘いを描いた映画(すなわち〈武俠片〉。

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