In a small village housewife Duyen (Le Van) receives a letter informing her that her husband has died in battle. Unable to accept the truth Duyen persuades local poet Khang to write a letter in her husband’s name reassuring her infant son and ailing father-in-law that all is well. But after Khang reluctantly agrees to write further letters a personal … Read the rest
Month: October 2018
Fangs Of The Cobra (Sun Chung, Hong Kong, 1977)
Tang (Hua Tsung) returns home to take over his father’s farm and falls in love with the pretty Ah Fen (Yao Hsia). When the villainous Brother Hu (Hung Wei) attempts to ensnare Tang in the clutches of his glamourous but devious girlfriend Cousin Man-ling (Danna) he only succeeds in drawing Tang and Ah Fen even closer together. With marriage in … Read the rest
A Mongolia Tale (Fei Xie, China, 1995)
Bayinbulag (Ganghulag) and Somiya (Bayirtcya), two children from different families, grow up together under their adoptive Grandmother (Dalarsurong) in a Yurt on the Mongolian grasslands. At his Grandmother’s urging Bayinbulag agrees to marry Somiya but his education keeps him away from home for three years and when he returns it’s to discover that Somiya has become pregnant by the local … Read the rest
Execution In Autumn (Lee Hsing, Taiwan, 1972)
In an era when executions are only carried out in autumn by royal decree Gang Pei (Ou Wei), a spoiled and only son, is sentenced to death for murder. With autumn a year away and horrified at the realisation that Pei’s death means her family will have no male heir his doting grandmother Liao (Bi Hui Fu) arranges to have … Read the rest
He’s back!
Dread, destiny and a strong emotional undercurrent are the hallmarks of the trailer for Clint Eastwood’s new film The Mule. This looks a lot more commercial than something as radical as Clint’s last film, the superb yet woefully misunderstood and underrated 15:17 To Paris. Eastwood’s directing and starring (the latter no surprise since he’d never officially announced his … Read the rest
Bohachi Bushido: Code Of The Forgotten Eight (Teruo Ishii, Japan, 1973)
Ronin Shino (Tetsuro Tanba) throws himself into a river to escape his enemies but is saved from death by the Bohachi’s, a once powerful clan of samurai who revel in depravity using rape and torture to turn women into sex slaves and assassins. After agreeing to a request by the Bohachi to clear the pimps from a local town Shino … Read the rest
