In Shanghai, eight year old orphan Sanmao (Wan Lung-chi) joins a team of beggars, becomes the unwilling recruit of a Fagin-style criminal and is adopted by a wealthy lady who cleans him up, renames him Tom and tries to control him like one of her pets. But at a party in his honour Sanmao can’t stand the sight of his … Read the rest
Tag: Children
Intruder (Tsang Kan-Cheung, Hong Kong, 1997)
Strangling a Hong Kong prostitute for her passport Chinese mainlander Yan (Wu Chien-Lien) tricks her way into the territory, seduces and traps a taxi driver (Lai Yiu-Cheung) in his home and settles down to await the arrival of her sinister criminal husband (Moses Chan Yo). But when the taxi driver’s mother arrives with the man’s daughter, Yan kills again. Meanwhile … Read the rest
School Trip (Yoo Hyun-mok, South Korea, 1969)
On a tiny remote island off the Korean coast a schoolteacher named Mr. Kim takes a class of young children on their first ever trip to the country’s capital, Seoul.
A lovely account of simple island kids exploring a big city and winningly told through the eyes of children whose wonderment at seeing the likes of skyscrapers and neon lights … Read the rest
Accidental Kidnapper (Hideo Sakaki, Japan, 2010)
One day Hideyoshi Date (Katsunori Takahashi), a debt-ridden, suicidal 30-something discovers a runaway kid named Densuke Aikawa (Roi Hayashi) in the back of his car. Densuke turns out to be fleeing an overbearing father but when Hideyoshi realises the kid’s parents are loaded he hatches an impromptu kidnap scheme and demands a huge ransom for the boy’s return. Unknown to … Read the rest
