The Touch is a 2002 Hong Kong action/adventure martial arts film directed by Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon cinematographer Peter Pau and starring Michelle Yeoh, Ben Chaplin and Richard Roxburgh. It was produced by China Film Co-production Corporation, Han Entertainment, Mythical Films, Pandasia Entertainment and Tianjan Studios, with the distribution handled by Miramax Films.
Apart from special effects sequences shot in soundstages, the film was ...
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The Touch is a 2002 Hong Kong action/adventure martial arts film directed by Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon cinematographer Peter Pau and starring Michelle Yeoh, Ben Chaplin and Richard Roxburgh. It was produced by China Film Co-production Corporation, Han Entertainment, Mythical Films, Pandasia Entertainment and Tianjan Studios, with the distribution handled by Miramax Films.
Apart from special effects sequences shot in soundstages, the film was shot on-location in the Nepal and China. Some of the mountain ranges in which the film was shot were not open to filmmakers earlier.
The Touch tells the story of a Chinese family of martial artists and acrobats who have been performing for many generations. The family are, in secret, guardians of a holy treasure accessible only by a spectacular jump which, to everyone else, is impossible to perform.
One of the family members (the main character's brother) and his girlfriend are kidnapped by a ruthless treasure hunter (Roxburgh) to procure the...
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