Screen adaptations help to make novels more accessible

Louis Cha's literary masterpieces are easily accessible, even to those who have never read a word of them, thanks to a number of screen adaptations made over half a century.

According to mtime.com, a popular website that specializes in reporting film news, the writer's martial arts novels have been adapted for about 120 feature-length movies and TV dramas since the late 1950s.

Cha began to write martial arts novels in 1955, and three years later his work Legends of the Condor Heroes was adapted for a two-part Cantonese movie, Story of the Vulture Conqueror.