Hong Kong rock band Zarahn’s lead singer Endy Chow remembers going to the cinema with his parents one afternoon in 1992 when he was a schoolboy. “My family and I passed by New World Centre and saw this giant hand-painted poster hanging on its façade, on which Jet Li leapt up and brandished a sword,” he recalls. He and his family were so dazzled by the martial artist’s mighty look that they went to see the movie, The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, adapted from Jin Yong’s classic wuxia novel.
Chow could not have imagined that many years later, he would be collaborating as a music director with Ronin Theatre—a
