LING YE (“Territorial Field”) Production: Hong Kong, 1981 Director: Ang Saan International English title: Angels With Golden Guns Category: Women-In-Prison A patchwork film, served up by Joseph Lai’s IFD production unit. The basic storyline of Ling Ye involves the capturing and imprisoning of women by slavers, and a bloody climactic uprising, Continue Reading
TERROR OF THE TONGS
THE TERROR OF THE TONGS Production: UK, 1961 Director: Anthony Bushell Category: Yellow Peril Hammer’s Terror Of The Tongs was a tale of Hong Kong’s Red Dragon Tong of 1919 – a murderous secret sect engaged in white slavery and opium smuggling. The film’s hero eventually avenges his daughter’s death by bringing down the Continue Reading