A mother by day and a prostitute by night The Goddess (Ruan Ling-yu) struggles to bring up her child (Li Keng) in the face of hostility and prejudice. After narrowly escaping a police raid in the red light district The Goddess finds herself under the thumb of a thuggish gambler and pimp known as The Boss (Zhang Zhizhi), who steals … Read the rest
Month: August 2017
The Birth Of A Legend
53 years ago an American television actor accepted the starring role in a low budget Italian-German-Spanish co-production of a remake of a Japanese samurai movie, at a time when the very notion of Americans acting in European movies was regarded in Hollywood as the kiss of death for their careers. How wrong they all were. Joe Leydon has a good … Read the rest
