The son and daughter of a poor family from the slums (led by Kang Song-ho as the father) inveigle their way into an affluent household as tutors to the owners children. As the newcomers scheme to turf out the chauffeur and a long serving housemaid (Jang Hye-jin) so their father and mother can replace them all seems to be going … Read the rest
Month: August 2019
Kiku and Isamu (Tadashi Imai, Japan, 1959)
11 year old Kiku (Emiko Takahashi) and her younger brother Isamu (George Okunoyama) find themselves the object of curiosity and casual cruelty as their classmates taunt them with jibes of ‘Blackie’, ‘Gorilla’ and comments about bananas being their favourite food. Unknown to both their father was a black GI, now gone back to the US. With their Japanese mother dead … Read the rest
The Black Tavern (Teddy Yip Wing-Cho, Hong Kong, 1972)
Thieves and brigands converge on a remote inn to ambush a government official due to arrive with a treasure chest he’s transporting. The most lethal of the bad guys, the Whip Devil (Ku Feng), cuts down all his competitors except for a fellow thief named Kang (Li Tung) with whom he’s forced into an uneasy alliance. But when the official … Read the rest
