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Celestial Pictures - owner of the Shaw Brothers' film library - is making a series of documentaries about Hong Kong cinema.

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Most are concerned with the history of swordplay and kung fu, but the one we await with popcorn in hand is Hong Kong Cinema: Beauties, the revealing story of the Shaw Brothers' leading ladies. Many rare interviews have been included of yesterday's lithe starlets chatting away with cinema's now 95-year-old grand-daddy, Sir Run Run Shaw.

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