The movie is based, kinda sorta, more on that historical figure than van Gulik's version. That earlier Judge Dee novel was in it's own turn inspired by an actual historical figure in Chinese history, Di Renjie, a noted official back in the 7th-Century Tang Dynasty. Gulik's stories were inspired by an 18th-century Chinese novel he translated into THE CELEBRATED CASES OF JUDGE DEE and then went on to write his own original stories and novels about that character. Hilde and I watched DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME, an Asian action movie you might think was based on the Judge Dee stories by Robert van Gulik.Įhh, no.
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