The box office success of Lee's films opened the door for other Chinese films as well, such as the Shaw Brothers production, The Golden Lotus (Li Han-hsiang, 1974). In fact, Li's earlier Shaw Brothers epic, The Kingdom and the Beauty (1958), had been released in Japan in 1962 (as well as such earlier releases as Zhu Shilin's Sorrow of the Forbidden City (1948), the Evan Yang Hong Kong-Japan coproduction, Blood Will Tell (1954), released in Japan in 1957, and Yang's collaboration with Zhang Shankun, The Little Girl Named Cabbage (1955)). According to Kinnia Yau (2007), however, Japanese audiences' ongoing love of Western and, in particular, Hollywood films resulted in little traction for Hong Kong cinema in Japan until the success of Enter the Dragon.